Miniature Bi-Colour Net Weave Eel Trap

Sculptural glass eel trap. 

Material: Hot blown glass with canes

Dimensions: 8cm x 11cm x 8cm

As a contemporary urban based First Nations (Arrernte) glass artist, Jenni Kemarre Martiniello OAM aims to produce a body of traditionally inspired works that will pay tribute to traditional weavers, and provide recognition for ancient cultural practices through the contemporary medium of glass within the aesthetics of both. Jenni has concentrated on the incredibly beautiful forms of traditional woven eel traps, fish traps and baskets, fish scoops and dillibags, seeking to evoke the interplay of light and form found in those objects, and in so doing, create contemporary glass works which are also objects of cultural as well as artistic significance.