Gabriella Bisetto

Ms Gabriella Bisetto

Senior Lecturer

School of Art and Design

College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

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I am a Senior lecturer in Fine Art  and lecture in the first year Foundation course 3D FineArt Studio and Material and Processes , the second year course Specialisation 1  and the third year courses Studio A and Studio B in addition to supervising  in the  Honors and Masters programs.
In the glass workshop I teach a variety of glass techniques across courses including  glassblowing ,casting methods, kiln forming and coldworking techniques.
The skills taught in these courses  equip students with the necessary knowledge of how to work as professional emerging artists in the field of glass,or, if they are not specialising in glass, how they can intergrate the materiality of glass into their major studies such  jewellery, sculpture, printing,ceramics, photography, painting, product design or architecture.

Gabriella Bisetto is a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Adelaide University (formerly the University of South Australia), and a practising glass artist. Born on Wiradjuri Country in Griffith, NSW, Gabriella trained at the Canberra School of Art before relocating to Adelaide (Kaurna Country) to undertake the JamFactory Glass Studio Associate Program. She later worked as Production Manager of the JamFactory Glass Workshop and as a self-employed artist before joining Adelaide University where she still works.

Gabriella’s artistic practice is deeply rooted in the body—its fragility, complexity, and the quiet space between breath and being. Her work explores the tension between science, religion, and the visceral human form. In 2007, she was an invited speaker at Take a Deep Breath, a multidisciplinary conference at Tate Modern, London. She received the Australia Council Rome Residency in 2009 and was awarded the Tom Malone Prize for contemporary glass in 2016 and 2025.

With over three decades in the field, she has significantly contributed to contemporary glass and visual art in Australia, serving on boards for Ausglass, Asialink, and Create SA (formerly Arts SA). Her dedication to teaching was recognised with a UniSA Teaching Award (2016) and an Australian National Teaching Award (2017).

Year Citation
2024 Authors: Bisetto G. Title: First breath, Last breath, Everything In Between. Extent: Suite of new cast, kiln formed and neon glass artworks for solo exhibition and sculptural works made of feathers..
2023 Authors: Bisetto G. Title: Transference. Extent: Wall work spanning the entire width of the back wall of POD Gallery space at MOD ( Museum of Discovery) constructed from clear, pulled glass canes and LED lighting..
2018 Authors: Bisetto G. Title: Sustain. Description: First Showing. Extent: Cast glass.
2018 Authors: Bisetto G. Title: Distilled. Description: First Showing. Extent: lamp worked scientific glass.
2018 Authors: Bisetto G. Title: From the ground 1# and From the ground up 2#. Description: First Showing. Extent: 2 small sculptures.
2017 Authors: Bisetto G. Title: Ode to Hennig Brand. Extent: laboratory glassware.
2017 Authors: Bisetto G. Title: ALVEOLUS #1, ALVEOLUS #2. Extent: Two coldworked semi-circular hot worked and blown glass forms, Dimensions: 280mm wide x 240mm high.
2015 Authors: Bisetto G. Title: Becoming - Gabriella Bisetto. Description: First Showing. Extent: 160 hand blown spiky glass forms suspended slighly above floor height to mimic a tumbleweed.
2014 Authors: Bisetto G, Boha C. Title: Natural Spaces 1, Natural Spaces 2. Description: First Showing. Extent: contemporary cast glass sculptural jewellery.
2013 Authors: Bisetto G. Title: Exchange #8 and Exchange #9. Extent: sculptures.
2013 Authors: Bisetto GE. Title: New Glass Review 34. Extent: N/A.
2013 Authors: Bisetto GE. Title: 365 Cups: a Cup a Day. Extent: N/A.
2013 Authors: Bisetto G. Title: All the Breath Inside of Me. Extent: 1 hand blown glass artwork.
2012 Authors: Castro B, Liew K, Young J. Title: Passages. Description: "Passages" is a multi-art collaboration between Brian Castro, John Young and Khai Liew, three of Australia's pre-eminent artists in the fields of literature, art and design. Passages connotes travel and the disruption of regular or familiar time and place. It suggests notions of deterritorialisation whereby orthodox understandings of history, nation, identity and belonging are destabilised and the possibility of alternative epistemologies and subjectivities can be entertained. This exhibition provides new knowledge in situating text, painting and furniture design in the context of the biographies of the artists; i.e. their "Asian" origins and Australian formation. It was reviewed postively in The Age, The Melbourne Review and the Issiad Review.. Extent: 78 pages.
2012 Authors: Bisetto GE. Title: A Glassy Ride with Blue Pony. Extent: N/A.
2012 Authors: Bisetto GE. Title: blue pony. Extent: N/A.
2011 Authors: Bisetto GE. Title: Memory of me. Extent: glass slides, hair, stainless steel.
2010 Authors: Bisetto GE. Title: Three minutes of breath. Extent: Blown glass; performance (with video) measuring three minutes of breathing hot glass.
2010 Authors: Bisetto GE. Title: Neus Glass Review 31. Extent: N/A.
2010 Authors: Bisetto G. Title: Exhibited at mind and matter: meditations on immateriality. Extent: N/A.
2009 Authors: Bisetto GE. Title: Me. Extent: collagagene casing.
2009 Authors: Bisetto GE. Title: Three Minutes of Breathing; Twelve Hours of Breath. Extent: 2 art installations.
2009 Authors: Bisetto GE. Title: You/god. Extent: bread, hair.
2009 Authors: Bisetto GE. Title: Inner and outer body space. Extent: N/A.
2009 Authors: Bisetto G. Title: Untitled - Gabriella Bisetto. Extent: N/A.
2008 Authors: Bisetto G. Title: Cluster cells. Extent: 4 glass works, lampworked pyrex glass.
2007 Authors: Bisetto G. Title: The ocean within (60% body weight is water). Extent: 40 glass bowls, 500 mls.
2006 Authors: Bisetto GE. Title: Distend 3#. Extent: N/A.
2005 Authors: Bisetto G. Title: Transfusion. Extent: N/A.
2005 Authors: Bisetto GE. Title: Crease. Extent: 1 sculpture.
2005 Authors: Bisetto GE. Title: Osmosis. Extent: hot sculpted glass, cold-worked hand/ground.
2005 Authors: Bisetto G. Title: Distend. Extent: 1 sculpture.
2003 Authors: Bisetto G. Title: Counterbalance. Extent: 1 sculpture.

Year Citation
2021 Bisetto, G. (2021). In House (No. Of Pieces: In-House is the University of South Australia’s fourth biennial research exhibition, presented at JamFactory and supported through the ongoing partnership between these two key South Australian institutions. Curated around the chandelier, the exhibition invited a diverse group of creatives working across a wide range of materials to use this iconic form as a starting point for new work. Evolving from a humble utilitarian light fitting, the chandelier became an elaborate symbol of technical mastery, complex design, luxury, wealth, and status.For In-House, the chandelier functioned as a catalyst for designers and makers to re-examine this iconic form in the context of contemporary issues through their own mediums. The exhibitors were encouraged to challenge its conventional meanings and explore alternative conceptual and material outcomes.The final works include responses made from textiles, print, photography, metal, acrylic, wood, and reclaimed materials, reflecting the diversity of approaches and inventive potential of contemporary practice. From reinterpretations and deconstructions to playful, critical, and reflective engagements, the exhibition offered a wide range of perspectives: from horror-inspired chandeliers to recreations of chandeliers documented by deep-sea robots within the Titanic wreck, to new-age “assemble your own” flat-pack designs.By framing the chandelier as a point of departure rather than a fixed symbol, in-house encouraged multiple perspectives on its cultural history and contemporary legacy. Co-curated by Gabriella Bisetto and Andrew Welch, the exhibition features new work by Stephen Atkinson, Chris Boha, Louise Bird, Julie Collins, Melanie Cooper, Ron Corso, Matt Huppatz, Mark Kimber, Michael Kutschbach, Joanna Majchrowska, Peter Schumacher, Peter Walker, and Hanah Williams.) [Exhibition]. Australia.
2011 Bisetto, G. E. (2011). Insight [Exhibition].
2009 Kelly, S., Moss, H. J., Walker, L., Haselton, L. G., Curry, J. J., Geissler, M. R., . . . Cys, J. (2009). Setting a place at the table [Exhibition]. Australia.
2008 Bisetto, G. E. (2008). SOFA (Sculptural Object Functional Art) [Exhibition]. Chicago, USA: Charon Kransen Arts.
2008 Bisetto, G. (2008). Trades : partnerships [Exhibition]. Jam Factory, Adelaide.
2007 Bisetto, G. E. (2007). Segment series [Exhibition]. Kingston, ACT: Canberra Glassworks.
2007 Bisetto, G. E. (2007). Limited lines [Exhibition]. Canberra, ACT: Canberra Glassworks.
2007 Bisetto, G. E. (2007). Glass focus [Exhibition]. Hobart, Tasmania: Handmark Gallery.
2007 Bisetto, G. E. (2007). Tom Malone prize 2007 [Exhibition]. Western Australia: Art Gallery of Western Australia.
2007 Bisetto, G. E. (2007). Little breaths : a body of glass [Exhibition]. BMGART, Adelaide.
2006 Welch, A. I., Bisetto, G. E., & Donovan, G. P. (2006). Survey - South Australian School of Art, SASA Gallery [Exhibition]. Australia.
2006 Wang, L. J., Belfrage, C. G., & Bisetto, G. E. (2006). Australia : Art and About 2006 [Exhibition]. Gaffer Studio Glass, Hong Kong.
2005 Bisetto, G. E. (2005). Seeds of Light [Exhibition]. Canberra, Australia.
2005 Belfrage, C. G., & Bisetto, G. E. (2005). Six [Exhibition]. Adelaide, SA.
2003 Bisetto, G. E. (2003). Tom Malone Prize 2003 - Gabriella Bisetto [Exhibition]. Australia.
2003 Bisetto, G. E., & Belfrage, C. G. (2003). Similar existance [Exhibition]. Stepney.
2003 Bisetto, G. E. (2003). Permutations : blown glass by Australian glass artists [Exhibition]. Seattle WA: Foster White Gallery.
2002 Bisetto, G. E. (2002). Dialogue: Stephen Procter and Friends [Exhibition].
2002 Bisetto, G. E. (2002). Mitsukoshi International Glass Arts Festival [Exhibition].
2002 Belfrage, C. G., & Bisetto, G. E. (2002). Dialogue [Exhibition].
2002 Bisetto, G. E. (2002). Canberra Glass 2002 [Exhibition].
2001 Bisetto, G. E. (2001). Glass State 2001 - Gabriella Bisetto [Exhibition]. Australia.
2001 Bisetto, G. E. (2001). Ranamok Glass Prize 2001 [Exhibition]. Sydney: Ranamok Glass Prize Limited.
2001 Bisetto, G. E. (2001). Glass art in Australia [Exhibition]. Australia.

2025; Create SA grant to be mentorship with master craftsperson Luke Price, focusing on the technique of hand-poured silvered glass. 

2026; Canberra Glassworks Artist Residency June/July 2026.

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2017 Principal Supervisor Making and belonging: an investigation of the interrelations between body, place and material through practice-led research based in blown glass. - Doctorate Part Time Ms Nadege Michele Desgenetez

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