Kaz Hauser Art

09/01/2025

In this work I have used a compression process to produce a semi-opaque, irregular disc of glass that, after coldworking, is about 0.35 cm thick. A smaller piece of kiln-formed glass laminated to the back holds a hand-formed wire stand, and also creates a shadow suggestive of a road through the desert.

I hope my abstract landscapes prompt questions about our relationships to place. Crossing Munga-Thirri in May 2024, I was awed by how the Indigenous Australians whose country it is lived in partnership with this land long before the visits of today's in well-equipped 4x4'S.

‘Remembering Munga-Thirri/The Simpson Desert’
Glass, kiln-formed and cold-worked; wire. 2024. 32 cm x 32 cm x 19 cm.

In the Small Works Art Prize at the Brunswick Street Gallery, Wurunjderi Country, Fitzroy (Melbourne) through 18 January.

06/01/2025

My new work ‘Remembering Munga-Thirri/The Simpson Desert’ is now on exhibit in the Small Works Art Prize, Brunswick Street Gallery, 322 Brunswick St, Wurundjeri Country, Fitzroy (Melbourne), Tues-Sun, until 18 January.

18/12/2024

I’ve been having fun developing the ‘red earth’ colours for my compression-process works about the central desert areas of Australia. This palette presents some technical challenges. Most of the Bullseye factory-direct oranges and reds can be used only sparingly, because they tend toward misbehaviour in this process, so I create the mainstays of the palette by layering different transparent colours over opaque colours. Many of these colours contain elements that can form a muddy interface reaction if they touch, so I layer clear-glass barriers between such colours.

10/11/2024

Last chance to cast a People's Choice vote in this year's Queensland Regional Art Awards! The theme is 'Resolution' and my entry is a compressed glass piece about my experience crossing Munga-Thirri/the Simpson Desert. I'd love you to take a look and consider supporting my piece.

https://flyingarts.org.au/2024-qraa-peoples-choice-award-adult/

Voting closes tomorrow, on Monday, 11 Nov (Qld time).

(Click on the photo to see the whole piece.)

17/10/2024

The online exhibition of the 2024 Queensland Regional Arts Awards (QRAA), 'Resolution,' is now live on the Flying Arts website, with voting for the People's Choice Awards. This is my entry in kiln-formed compressed glass, a free-standing flat panel sculpture. It's the first work I have created from my experience of crossing Munga-Thirri/the Simpson Desert earlier this year. The 2024 QRAA has elicited some great art, and I'd love for you to jump online and cast your vote! I'll try to drop a link in the comments.

08/10/2024

My hand-lapping station, and a sneak peek at what was face down in the black slurry. 'Coldworking' is the basket term for processes to shape, refine and embellish glass when in its cold state, using a variety of tools, hand or powered. My compressed glass works receive significant coldworking after they come out of the kiln. To create a soft matt finish, I 'hand-lap' the glass with a silicon carbide slurry in a progression of grit sizes, moving it in a figure-8 pattern face-down on a work surface of plate glass. I use giant plastic saucers to contain the mess, somewhat. It's labor-intensive. I timed my work sessions on this piece, and wasn't surprised by the total of nine hours.

06/10/2024

Reading this post was almost as special as being a 2023 QRAA finalist! I am so grateful to receive this recognition. 😊 And I'm just finishing up my 2024 entry now.

Monday is the last day to enter this years Queensland Regional Art Awards. Today we are celebrating Kaz Hauser's outstanding finalist artwork in last years QRAA emerging art award category. Kaz's piece stunned the judges in 2021 and so could yours this year!

2024 QUEENSLAND REGIONAL ART AWARDS (QRAA) ARE OPEN FOR ENTRIES!

With a prize pool of over $140,000 across multiple award categories, the QRAA are one of Australia’s pre-eminent awards and Australia’s largest regional art awards prize pool for regional Queensland artists.

The theme for the 2024 QRAA is RESOLUTION. Artists and society as a whole grapple and confront multiple viewpoints and concepts requiring resolution. Through the creative process, artists take this voyage through differing personal and social lenses to reach a meaningful resolution in their work. This reflects and is relevant to the broader journey of society.

Our esteemed judges, Simon Wright and Bianca Beetson, are looking for exciting entries that explore the concept of 'Resolution' in its many facets, viewpoints and nuances.
Finalists are exhibited in Brisbane with the winning and highly commended artworks announced at a gala reception.

Head to our brochure linked in our bio to find out more!

Good luck everyone!

17/09/2024

Doesn't this look amazing--eight decades of Yolngu art! I know where I'll be spending one of my NYC art days when I visit the US soon.

14/09/2024

I am very excited about participating for the first time in the group exhibition at Murky Waters Studio here in Townsville, with a small triptych sculpture in kiln-formed and coldworked glass, ‘Remembering Granny’s Blueberry Bushes II.’ Open Sunday mornings 9-12 through 29 Sept. The exhibition theme is ‘Strange Fruit.’ My entry was originally going to be a larger work but it broke in the kiln, twice, so I pivoted to making somethig from the pieces. My compression technique does push the glass and sometimes it fails …. that’s glass! The panels of this piece are about 3 mm thick, and the tallest is 11.9 cm high. The feet are separate cast glass pieces.

11/08/2024

Among the various Pop-Up North Queensland - PUNQ-related events in Charters Towers is the touring exhibition 'Perspective: The Queensland Regional Arts Awards,' which includes my piece 'Beautiful Gurambilbarra--Townsville, Queensland.' (The photo on the right shows it in Cairns recently.) Open 10-1 M-F through 16 Aug, World Theatre Gallery, 82-90 Mosman St, Charters Towers.

10/08/2024

Really enjoyed the Pop-Up North Queensland - PUNQ tour on Yunbenun/Magnetic Island today! It was so relaxing to let the bus driver do the driving as we visited the two installations pictured here and multiple local artists who created exhibitions or activities for the Fringe Art Trail. Shown here are ‘Illuminated Waters’ by Jo Stacey (octopi on the jetty) and ‘Pulse’ by Squeak+Bubble.

17/06/2024

Getting ready for this trip is why I paused my arts practice for a few months, but now I'm bringing some fresh inspiration back into the studio!

My husband Karl and I recently had the privilege of crossing Munga-Thirri, the Simpson Desert, on Wangkangurru Yarluyandi country.