Intro [gentle music] - [Alexa] Hi, how are you? - Hello, Alexa. All the
better for seeing you. So what have you got planned for us today? - So it's really cool. I'm gonna be talking to
the UK's leading artists. They're forces for change in art. So whether that's innovation,
community, environment, I'm gonna explore their studios
and try out what they do. We're gonna start with this incredible duo who make these beautiful
installations of glass and light. So I'm actually gonna
learn how to blow glass. - Oh. [glass hissing] - I might make you
something and bring it back. - Please do, I need things for the house. - Oh, perfect, okay, I'll try and work on a vase for you.
- Yes, please a vase will be great.
- Okay. [gentle music] - Schuster and Moseley, Interview thank you so much for having me here. Firstly, where are we? - We are in our studio where
we compose different pieces. If it's for a more residential space or for an architectural space,
we'll always do a hanging and look at how the light
interacts with glass. - If it fits. Sometimes
it's too big to hang here. - Where do you get your inspiration from? - You know, we are always interacting with informational light,
the screen, the phone, this kind of-
- Yeah. - Program, like we wanted
to sort of break that apart and give a new dimensional
experience of light to generate a kind of atmosphere. - What are some of your favorite shapes and materials to use? - [Edward] The lens form
fundamentally, which is everywhere. - The UFOs? - The UFOs yeah, or satellites. The lens is a sort of
archetypal object really, being able to look into micro
world and look into the cosmos and understand what the
composition of reality is. - [Alexa] What's going on here? - Here we're just experimenting
with how you can use these devices to play with light. And how to kind of open light up. - Yeah,
- Its spectrality. - And so a lot of these lenses have come out of other
equipment that you've found or where are the cameras coming from? - A lot of it was collected
from my grandfather's collection and then I sort of amalgamated
over the years on my own, and I started deconstructing
the camera equipment. So taking out the lenses
from both the cameras, but also from the
enlarger in the dark room and then creating these photographs. That was actually where we
started using the lab equipment was just to hold the lenses in place whilst I created these photographs. So I wanted to bring it
into installation work. So that was when I started playing with having a light source that was separate, a lens that was separate and then the body becoming
part of that interaction. - [Alexa] What can you tell
us about this beautiful piece? - So this is one of our light mobiles. And so we take a light source and we kind, of tune
and puppeteer the lenses to create these kind of
spectral projections. Very fine movements in the glass can really change this projection. So we end up kind of creating
like a painting with light. - So we actually start
with the glass blowers by exploring the kind of form of the lens. So we integrate flat
edges and more ripples, trying to experiment how
the lens is gonna interact Glassblowing with the light. - Okay, so what's this
wonderful boiling hot room? - Oh, so we've come to the hotshop which is where we make
glass with James and Katie. - [Alexa] And there they are. Hello, I'm Alexa. - I'm Katie, nice to meet you
- So nice to meet you. I love your shades.
- Thank you. - They're so cool. Is that like a fashion choice for Vogue or is it some sort of- - Absolutely purple spring down here.
- I wish. - Okay.
- I wish. - They're like, "Okay
we've got Vogue today guys, let's get glasses on." So are you gonna show me
how to make some glass? - Yes, absolutely. So James is gonna demonstrate making one of Ed and Claudia's lenses and then you are gonna actually have a go at the glass blowing yourself. - Excellent. I feel like I'm
gonna be mediocre at that. - You'll be great.
[both laughing] - Do I get to wear a
snazzy sleeve as well? - Yes.
- It's not dissimilar from like a hawk coming to land. - Exactly the same, exactly the same.
- Yeah, we get our gear from the same shop as the hawk guys. Oh my God. Wow, oh. Do you ever make pizzas in there? It's a shame it's too hot to touch 'cause I really wanna squidge it. - [James] So this is just wet newspaper. - Yeah, it's starting to look lensy. Oh that looks fun, and
I bet that feels nice. - [James] It's really nice. [gentle music] - Yeah, dude, I don't think
I could have done that. [Katie laughs] I appreciate that you believed in me. See that is like so hypnotic. - Yes. - It's mesmerizing.
- Yeah. - Ooh. [fire roaring] [gentle music] - You wanna hit at off?
- Oh, my god, fun? - You're just gonna hit it. - Hit what?
- Hit the iron. It's gonna-
- Oh - Hit that there. - Here?
- Here! - Yep, perfect. [glass crackles] Just like that.
- Ah. [all laugh and giggle] - Oh my God, rounders bat.
[imitates hitting ball] I told Edward that I was gonna blow glass, so I've now forced Katie into
showing me how to do that. And also 'cause I got
to wear my cool sleeve and these shades. Got my hair up. I'm ready to go. Ah! I'm scared, I'm actually scared. - [Katie] Okay, so you are
gonna pick up the paper pad. - Paper.
- That's it. - Paper.
- That's it. - Is it wet enough? - [Katie] James will come
put some water on it for you. - Thank you master. - [Katie] Okay, so this
hand will come behind mine. - Yeah,
- We're gonna keep it rolling. This hand's gonna come underneath. - Yup!
- And I'm gonna just gently-
- Oh my God. - Lift it off, and back on. Beautiful. Put That down. Move yourself all the
way down that end for me. Okay.
- Yep. - [Katie] And blow. [blow rod hisses] Keep it turning. Stop and tap that. - What?
- Yep, hit it. [rod clinking] - Oh, like-
[rod thuds] - Beautiful.
- Oh, okay. What glass is used? - Well, we actually make use of all of the sort of excess glass. You saw the piece that
was in our studio hanging, so we make use of all of those chunks and break them up. And so always all of the
glass that sort of breaks, or gets left over is kind of inspiration for the next artwork. - There you go.
- Gorgeous. - [Katie] Your very first glass. - That's absolutely beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing
your wonderful workshop and artistic journey with me. And thank you for watching. Goodbye. [gentle music ends]