Lola Lazaro Hinks (b.1990 in London) is a London-based artist and designer. She makes sculptural work in glass; trained as a photographer, the use of optics runs as a seed throughout the work. Characterised by layered, constructed and multi-element forms that draw from the photographic; using lensing, the space between focal lengths, polished and transparent glass, dark spaces and textured opacity to entangle vision with concealment.
Deeply interested in the material qualities of glass, of transparency and opacity, to explore themes of surveillance and privacy in both the city and the digital. Her focus is to explore the mysterious as the vital essence of humanity, which is so often disregarded today with the prevalence of hyperinformation and hypercommunication.
She has worked as an assistant for glass artists Anna Dickinson and Heike Brachlow, and as a maker for several London based design companies.
She graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2018 with a MA in Ceramics and Glass and a BA in Fine Art Photography from the Arts University College Bournemouth in 2012.
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Education
2016-2018 Royal College of Art, MA Ceramics and Glass (Distinction in Dissertation)
2009-2012 Arts University Bournemouth, BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
2008-2009 Arts University Bournemouth, Foundation Diploma
Selected Group Exhibitions
July 2022 Cluster Craft Fair, London
Oct 2020 Young Masters London Glassblowing, London
Jan 2019 Patch of green in London, Cookhouse Gallery, London
Nov 2018 West Bund Art Expo, Shanghai
Nov 2018 China Craft Week 2018, Hangzhou
Sep 2018 Breaking the Mould, London Glassblowing, London
July 2018 Royal College of Art, Ceramics & Glass Postgraduate Show, London
Mar 2018 Materialise, Private House, Kensington, London
Jan 2018 Royal College of Art Work in Progress Show, London
Feb 2017 The Emerging and the Established , Christies, London
Sep 2017 Glasshaus XII, Pardon Mill, UK
Aug 2017 British Glass Biennale, UK
Jan 2017 Royal college of Art work in progress show, London
June 2012 Arts University college Bournemouth Graduate show, The Old Truman Brewery, London
June 2012 Mt. Analogue, The Gallery, Bournemouth
Professional Experience & Residencies
April 2022 - Freelance Maker, Haberdashery
August 2021 - Consultancy and Gallery assistant, Flow Gallery
Mar 2019- Mar 2020 Gallery Assistant, London Glassblowing
Oct 2018 - June 2019 Artist Assistant, Anna Dickinson
August 2017 - Sep 2019 Artist Assistant, Heike Brachlow
July 2017 Teaching assistant for Heike Brachlow, Shaping Colour, The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass, New York
Scholarships
June 2017 Master Class, Materiality making Meaning, North Lands, Scotland, Michael Rogers Scholarship
March 2017 Glass Engraving, Katherine Coleman, West Dean College Scholarship
Classes
March 2022 Beginners Flameworking with Andrea Spencer, Ireland
January 2019 Anthropology of Space, Goldsmiths