Glass artist Grant Donaldson is recognised for an experimental practice shaped by land, material and transformation. After working on rural properties across Australia for 15 years, Donaldson began working with glass in 1990, assisting his wife, renowned glassblower Eileen Gordon, in establishing Gordon Studio Glassblowers. Largely self-taught, he developed a distinct approach to blown glass, drawing on his deep connection to the Australian landscape and the physical demands of the medium.

Donaldson’s work reflects the movement, colour and elemental force of the land. His glass forms carry a sense of heat, risk and experimentation, shaped through the precision and unpredictability of the blowing process. For Donaldson, glass becomes a way of translating landscape into object — capturing its fragility, intensity and atmospheric depth through form, surface and light.