Edmond Byrne first studied glass at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin. He makes glass works that occupy a space where strong volume and geometry meet a fluid lyricism. Byrne works primarily in the vessel form, not for domestic comfort but because of an elemental, symbolic attraction. Sometimes his work takes a single shape that is characteristic of heritage Chinese ceramics, although he adds grooved indents to the walls in a clearly contemporary manner. He says that he likes to work across the notion of time, where his art objects ‘have a resonance from the past’.
