Kim Cottrell is an emerging glass artist, embracing kiln-formed glass in early 2023.
He originally trained as a photographer, both in the commercial and domestic fields, and he is using the art knowledge attained during his photography Diploma course to create vessels, sculptures and forms that engage with the viewer and push the boundaries of glass fusing and kiln forming.
Kim is currently experimenting with different processes such as solid casting, mokume gane, gelled glass, strip construction in a dammed mould form, reactive glass, kiln pressing, hard edge glass construction and stack construction utilising Hxtal-1.
Recently he has started exploring different ways of displaying glass collections by utilising aluminium or copper as the base to mount the glass and then presenting this in a frame, ready to hang.
He finds great joy in making glass art and can lose himself in designing and assembling the glass to go in the kiln, and then the excitement when the firing is completed to see how the heat has transformed the glass.
Kim also incorporates recycled timber, aluminium and stainless steel as display mounts for his glass sculptures.
Inspiration from artists such as Piet Mondrian, Andy Warhol and Claude Monet can be seen in some of the vessels and sculptures created.
Recent Group Exhibitions
2026 RFBYC Art Exhibition (August)
2026 Glass Reflections of WA
2026 Pinjarra Art Show
2026 Mandurah Open Studios
2026 WASA 130th Art Exhibition
2026 Small Sculptures by the Bay, finalist
2025 CASM Tiny Treasures
2025 Canning Art Awards
2025 Army Art, finalist
2025 St Marks Art Exhibition, finalist
Arts Memberships
Western Australian Society of Arts
Ausglass
Mandurah Arts and Crafts Society
Western Australian Photographic Judges Association – Certified photography judge
Website
www.kimcottrell.com.au
Instagram
@kimcottrellglassartist
Education
Karen Lise Krabbe, Gelled Glass, 2025
Brenda Griffith, Mokume Gane, 2025
Catherine Dunstan, All about Silkemat, 2024
Paul Tarlow, Various online seminars, 2024-26
Marc Lieb, Art Glass Studio, Advanced Fusing and Slumping
Mount Lawley TAFE, Diploma of Applied Science in Photography, 1994
