The exploration of natural form is intrinsic to the contemplative work of glass artist Turiya Orme. Clear, blown glass is stretched, cut and carved in an adaptive process of discovery, a kind of organic approach to design that is echoed in the natural forms that emerge. In her current direction, Turiya explores “natural forms in glass, one-off lathe and hand engraved forms that we are invited to touch and hold. The visitor interacts with the pieces and in doing so considers their relationship with nature...in the end a piece may become like a shell, a stone or a curved piece of wood that you might find on a walk in nature.”

Turiya wanted to be a glass blower even as a small child. With creative parents, her childhood was filled with artistic stimulation and time spent in ashrams in India and the United States. After completing a degree in glass at Monash University in 1999, she travelled to the USA participating in various workshops including the Pilchuck Glass School in Seattle. In 2001, she completed her honours degree in Glass at Monash, and later studied cold worked glass techniques at the ANU Glass workshop in Canberra. Turiya has taken part in more than a dozen group exhibitions in Australia and the United States and, in 2000, was recipient of a working scholarship to Penland School of Craft, North Carolina.