Ben Young
Sculpturer
Residing in Mount Maunganui, New Zealand
Selftaught
Been making glass-sculptures for over 15 years
spent most of his life by the sea, living in bay of plenty,
north island, nz.
The ocean has been a part of him all his life, and being
a boatbuilder by profession and a surfer. His biggest
inspiration being the nature and the ocean.
Methods
Laminated glass-sheets cut by hand.
Concrete foundation and frames of stainless-steel
his works are often presented with artificial lightning
as light play a big part of the compositions.
He is interested in how the light hits,
reflects and refracts off different surfaces,shapes.
He spends alot of time before he even begins the actual buildingprocess, handdrawing
and alot of sketching goes in to the preparation, then he hangs the ideas and drawings
up and look at them until he figure out how to actually make it.
His work represent the beautiful nature he feels lucky to experience and want to share the same experience with his viewers.
