Damien Francois
In 2009, he undertook 3 months internship at RISD with the artist Chris Taylor. He went to Pilchuck glass school as Student, T.A and Staff member. Since 2006 he has worked as assistant for several glass artists, in Denmark, USA, Iceland, Germany and France. Now based in Copenhagen, he is one of the 6 members of the shared glass workshop Luftkraft Glasstudie.
Damien’s work is primarily driven by responses of material experimentations. Based on the exploration and the exploitation of the multitude possibilities that glass offers, his work aims to approach issues of perplexity and uncertainty. He is interested in the unfamiliar side of the glass’s characteristics.