How was it made? Glass-blowing | Elliot Walker | V&A

Inspired by traditional oil paintings, sculptor Elliot Walker works with molten glass at exceptionally high temperatures and speed to create unique 3D still life sculptures. Step inside his studio to see each stage of this extremely challenging process, as he creates a new work made up of three-dimensional sliced fish, in response to a tiny fragment of a Middle Eastern glass beaker in our collection.

00:00 In the studio
01:10 Elliot's still life series
01:45 Design inspiration from the V&A collection
03:03 Hot workshop: gathering molten glass with a blowpipe
03:30 Building up layers of clear and coloured glass
03:56 Spiralling the coloured glass
04:15 Shaping the glass with different tools
04:50 'Swedish' or bubble overlay technique
05:57 Creating the fish shape
06:41 Adding surface texture, fins and a metallic finish
08:14 Cold workshop: cutting and polishing
09:17 The finished piece

Find out more about our glass collection: https://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/glass