Edmond Byrne and Adi Toch
Glass maker Edmond Byrne and metal artist Adi Toch collaborate to combine glass and metal, creating sculptural vessels and objects. As two makers with distinct practices and material languages, their work explores the dialogue created when substances and forms merge through the joint working method and unique processes that they have developed. The artists investigate ways in which the materials react, move, fuse, stain and mirror, creating a new visual language of textures, colours and forms.
Sculptures from their collaborative work has been acquired by the V&A Museum and Ulster Museum.
Edmond Byrne has worked with Cavaliero Finn since 2021. He is an Irish glassblower producing artworks and vessels from mould blown glass. Edmond has an experimental approach to process and making that explores tactility, colour psychology, sustainability, and digital craft.
Edmond has an MA from the Royal College of Art, Ceramics and Glass and a B.Des in Craft Design from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. Edmond's work is exhibited internationally and is included in public collections; the V&A Museum, Ulster Museum and The National Collection, Ireland. He has received prestigious awards including the RDS Irish Craft Award, the Dan Klein Memorial Award, and the Pilchuck Partner Scholarship.
Adi Toch graduated from The Cass, London in 2009 with a masters in Art, Design & Visual Culture, following her BA with First Class Honours from Bezalel Art Academy in Jerusalem, Metalwork department. Her work is exhibited internationally and has won prestigious awards including a Gold Award from The Goldsmiths' Craft and Design Council UK. In 2017 she was shortlisted for The Loewe Craft Prize and won a Wallpaper* Design Award. In 2018 she won the European Prize for Applied Arts.
