Maureen Williams is a widely respected artist at the forefront of Australian glass practice.  She uses the blown glass vessel as a three-dimensional canvas for her abstract paintings, using high-temperature enamel paint that is worked into linear engravings and sandblasted areas.  The paint is covered with successive layers of clear glass, achieving great depth of colour and tone beneath the smooth surface.  Maureen’s experience walking the rugged gorges and ranges of the Northern Territory has inspired the linear patterns of her glass forms that lead the eye on an abstract journey with no obvious point of departure.  The imagery also relates to the fragile relationship between man and the land, both in the way man creates altered views of the landscape and how man is depicted within the natural environment.

Maureen Williams studied at the Chisholm Institute of Technology majoring in hot glass and has taught various workshops in Melbourne.  She has travelled extensively in Europe and America where she has attended international glass conferences and the Pilchuck and Venezia Aperto Vetro glass schools. Maureen has established her own hot glass studio and was awarded a two-month artist residency at the Wanganui Polytechnic in New Zealand in 2000.  She has had numerous solo and group exhibitions both in Australia and overseas with work collected by many institutions including the National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Artbank and Die Neue Sammlung Museum (Munich, Germany).