About
Material Transformed with Meaning.
Refined Through Design.
Glass works made to be worn, placed, given and remembered.
The Artist
Cindy Poole's 30 Years of Glass Artistry
Since 1995, Cindy Poole has developed a contemporary glass practice centered 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.
Where It Began
Cindy’s career began with a deeply personal project in 1995—a handcrafted photo frame created to honor the memory of her father. This profound intersection of medium, memory, and connection ignited an unexpected creative calling, shifting her path from physical education teaching to a lifetime dedicated to fine studio glass.
Learning the Craft
Largely self-directed through decades of continuous studio research, Cindy's technical command grew alongside her artistic voice. A definitive chapter arrived in 2010 through a focused mentorship with master glass artist Shar Feil Moorman, a collaboration that elevated her technical capability into conceptual, narrative-driven craftsmanship.
Cindy's Perspective
"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 already 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
The Recognition
Over three decades, Cindy’s commitment to craftsmanship and structural excellence has been recognized through multiple fine art prizes, exhibitions, and industry awards:
Recognition Through the Years
Esperance Chamber of Commerce & Industry Best Tourism Business
Mansfield Art Glass Exhibition, Glass Jewellery Prize
Esperance Chamber of Commerce & Industry Best Tourism Business
Esperance Biennial Rural Art Award
(Paddocks)
Esperance Biennial Open Art Award
Esperance Chamber of Commerce & Industry Home Based Business
WA Small Business Development Corporation Regional Home Based Business Awards
Esperance Chamber of Commerce & Industry Home Based Business
Esperance Biennial Open Art Award
(The First Sighting, collaborative work with Doc Reynolds)
Esperance Chamber of Commerce & Industry Home Based Business
The Practice
Material Transformed with Meaning. Refined through Design.
From Material to Form
Every piece balances surface finish, translucency, and environmental scale. Instead of forcing a rigid aesthetic, Cindy reads the unique history and physical behavior of the glass, allowing kiln temperatures and hand-refining to dictate the final, resolved form.
Three Material Pathways
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.
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.
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.
Float / 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.
Elemental Influence
Immersed in an Esperance landscape where the Southern Ocean meets pristine white sand, ancient granite, and clean light, the practice is guided by geography. This influence appears as instinct—in the forms resolved and colours selected.
The Gallery & Studio
Experience the Practice
Set among the natural landscape of Esperance, Western Australia, the Cindy Poole Glass Gallery & Studio offers a rare opportunity to experience the practice where it comes to life.
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 while gaining a deeper appreciation for the craftsmanship, material understanding and design thinking behind every piece.
Every visit offers a closer connection to the work—not only through what is displayed, but through the atmosphere of the studio itself, where light, material and creativity continue to shape each new collection.
Continue Exploring
Discover the Practice Beyond the Story
While every piece originates as a deliberate material transformation in our studio, its meaning is completed by you—the person who wears it, places it, or gifts it.
Explore our collections online, or book a live studio workshop to find a work designed to hold a lasting place in your life.