2006 Frosty Hand-Blown Martini Glass

Richard Marquis has an encyclopaedic collection of ‘ordinary’ things in his studio to inspire his whimsical, witty and ever-evolving body of work. In his oeuvre, simple forms belie complex techniques and sentimental stories; the Frosty series, for example, charts the annual holiday gifting tradition he shared with his wife – assemblage artist Johanna Nitzke Marquis – where they would create snow people with varying features and temperaments, which he would then gift to her once complete. This martini glass is created in collaboration with Dante Marioni, the American glass artist with a classical eye.