Asignificant exhibition is currently showing at the Millicent Gallery as part of a national tour.

Abundant Wonder by Jam Factory Icon Tom Moore will be in the Gallery through to November.

The Jam Factory’s Icon series celebrates the achievements of South Australia’s most influential visual artists working in craft-based media.

Tom Moore is one of Australia leading glass artists and over the course of his career has carved out a singular voice within Australian glass art making.

His engaging, sophisticated and technically challenging hybridised animal/plant sculptures and the fantastical worlds they inhabit are deeply embedded in the history of glass making and scientific discovery.

Through the taming of the molten liquid material of glass, Moore creates complex diorama worlds within which his fanciful hybridised protagonists act and interact.

In his creation of a universe that seems as ominous as it is beautiful, Moore’s artworks are disarmingly playful in their use of narrative to critique the pressing social and environmental concerns.

A rigorous and technically masterful glass blower, Moore’s characteristically fantastical creations are inspired by unusual historical objects, such as zoomorphic vessels that combine a functional object and the representation of an animal, and trick glasses that are intentionally confusing and difficult to use