George Agius, Slashed, Spilled and Suspended, 2025, blown, sculpted and hot assembled glass. Photograph by Leigh Mitchell-Anyon.
George Agius, Slashed, Spilled and Suspended, 2025, blown, sculpted and hot assembled glass. Photograph by Leigh Mitchell-Anyon.
George Agius, What is Left, After you Left, 2025, blown and sculpted glass. Photograph by Leigh Mitchell-Anyon.
George Agius, What is Left, After you Left, 2025, blown and sculpted glass. Photograph by Leigh Mitchell-Anyon.
Installation of George Agius - Sweet Meats at The Dowse Art Museum - Spit Out and Strung Up. Photo by Mark Tantrum Photography Ltd
Installation of George Agius taken at opening - Sweet Meats at The Dowse Art Museum - Hunted and Hung. Photo by Mark Tantrum Photography Ltd
Installation of George Agius - Sweet Meats at The Dowse Art Museum - Spit Out and Strung Up. Photo by Mark Tantrum Photography Ltd
George Agius, Hunted and Hung, 2025, blown and sculpted glass. Photograph by Leigh Mitchell-Anyon.
George Agius, Hunted and Hung, 2025, blown and sculpted glass. Photograph by Leigh Mitchell-Anyon.
George Agius, Hunted and Hung, 2025, blown and sculpted glass. Photograph by Leigh Mitchell-Anyon.
George Agius’s work is both visceral and seductive. Her blown and sculpted glass pieces, splayed organ-like forms and candy-coloured bedroom accoutrements, toy with gender, power dynamics, sex, desire, and gore. Lingering in the thresholds between interior and exterior, private and public, Agius externalises both body and bedroom: sites where carnal pleasure, vulnerability, sickness, and death converge. By collapsing flesh into glass, she pushes the medium into a material capable of confronting questions of intimacy and power.
Agius is a glass artist based in Feilding (Aorangi) in the Manawatū. After completing a Diploma in Glass Design and Production at Whanganui School of Glass, she went on to study a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Canada at the Alberta College of Art and Design and was then accepted into Adelaide’s JamFactory Associate Training Program. Agius was selected as the New Zealand Glassworks Artist-in-residence in 2024 and was just included in the most recent Corning Museum of Glass’s ‘New Glass Review’ that compiles a list of 100 of the most timely and innovative projects in glass internationally.
George Agius, Hunted and Hung, 2025, blown and sculpted glass. Photograph by Leigh Mitchell-Anyon.