About
The Artist, Practice, & Gallery
Discover the philosophy, craftsmanship, and creative process behind more than three decades of contemporary kiln-formed glass.
Cindy's Perspective
Holding Light & Memory
“I work with glass because it holds light the way memory holds feeling — subtle, shifting, and never quite the same twice.”
Each piece begins with a material that carries a story. My job is to discover what it can become — something refined, made to last, and worthy of a place in someone's life.
Cindy Poole Glass Artist
Learning the Craft
Decades of Studio Research
Largely self-directed through decades of continuous studio research, Cindy's technical command grew alongside her artistic voice — elevated through mentorship with master glass artist Shar Feil Moorman into narrative-driven craftsmanship.
The Practice
Material Transformation
Every piece balances surface finish, translucency, and environmental scale. Instead of forcing a rigid aesthetic, Cindy reads the unique history and physical behaviour of the glass, allowing kiln temperatures and hand-refining to dictate the final, resolved form.
Three Material Streams
A Triad of Glass Character
While every piece is united by the same design philosophy, the studio works across three distinct material pathways. Each offers its own visual character, technical possibilities and story, allowing the practice to explore glass from multiple perspectives.
STREAM 01
Fine Art Glass
Selected for its exceptional clarity, colour and predictable kiln behaviour, fine art glass allows for precise layering, rich colour relationships and remarkable interaction with light. It provides the creative freedom to explore translucency, depth and refined surface finishes across jewellery, sculptural works and contemporary design objects.
STREAM 02
ReValued Bottle Glass
Some of the studio's most distinctive works begin with familiar glass that has already lived a previous life. Through careful selection, kiln-forming and craftsmanship, these materials are transformed into beautiful contemporary objects that carry both provenance and renewed purpose.
STREAM 03
Architectural Glass
Reclaimed architectural glass offers a different creative language. Its flat surfaces and subtle character provide opportunities to explore texture, layering and quiet detail, resulting in works that reveal unexpected depth and presence while celebrating the material's understated beauty.
Material That Continues to Respond
Glass is never truly finished responding. It captures, shifts, and releases light differently with every change in angle, season, and time of day — offering continuous moments of discovery in the space it moves into.
Cindy's Thirty Years of Glass Artistry
Glass Transformed Through Craft & Intention
Since 1995, Cindy Poole has developed a contemporary glass practice centred on craftsmanship and material meaning. Moving intentionally beyond traditional regional craft language, she transforms raw glass through heat, layering, and deliberate design into works of lasting presence.
Esperance, Western Australia
Based in Esperance, Western Australia, the practice is shaped by immersion in a landscape where light is elemental and unfiltered — the Southern Ocean meeting white sand and ancient granite under a light that shapes how colour, form, and surface are read.
That influence moves through the work as instinct, present in the colours selected and the forms resolved, whether or not you've stood on this coastline yourself.
The Recognition
Mastery Across Scale & Form
The practice's craftsmanship and structural capability are demonstrated through the work itself — commissions, exhibitions and installations delivered across scales, from small collector pieces to standing architectural works.
CIVIC & CORPORATE
Architectural & Corporate Commissions
The practice moves across both material streams as each commission calls for it — fine art glass and reclaimed architectural glass alike — delivering work for organisations including Rio Tinto, BHP, Mitsui E&P and Business Events Perth's Aspire Awards, alongside public art such as the Whale Tail on the Esperance Foreshore.
INTERNATIONAL STANDING
Exhibitions & Recognition
Selected exhibitions include Artistar Jewels 2017 in Milan (presented during Milan Fashion Week at Palazzo Giureconsulti), Ausglass at the National Glass Museum in Wagga Wagga, and Form WA's Spirit of Esperance exhibition (2025).
LUXURY PARTNERSHIPS
Hospitality & Tourism
Client gifting has included Crown, Business Events Perth, Virtuoso — several in reclaimed material vessels — and corporate gifts for the TWA International Cruise Exchange Conference, alongside reception and serving ware supplied to Hospitality Group, extended through Tourism WA programs.
VISIT THE STUDIO
Experience the Practice
More than a gallery, it is a working creative space where finished collections, works in progress, and the making process exist side by side. Here, visitors can explore contemporary glass jewellery, sculptural objects, homewares, and commissioned works, and see first-hand how glass — a sheet of colour, a familiar bottle, a reclaimed windowpane — is kiln-formed: heated, shaped and reshaped over hours, one thing slowly becoming another.
Just off Great Ocean Drive, there's more than one way in: move through the collection, step into the making space to see the techniques and decisions behind it, or book a Discover and Create workshop and shape a piece yourself.
Refined Contemporaries
Find Something Meaningful
Explore contemporary Australian glass works thoughtfully designed to be worn, placed, given, and remembered.