Lienors Torre
Lienors Torre is a glass maker and animator trained in the form and materiality of both media. She studied glass in the Czech Republic and at the Australian National University. She has an MFA in animation from CalArts (USA), a PhD from VCA (Melbourne University) and has taught masterclasses which combine animation and glass making at Pilchuck Glass School. Her creative practice explores the nexus between the screen and the object – between the ephemeral and the material, between time-based and stationary aspects, between light, optics and image. She is senior lecturer in Film, Television and Animation in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University, Melbourne, and has co-authored books on Australian animation.
Lienor’s Interview
Lienors’ artist talk at r.a.g.e.
An accomplished artist and educator, Lienors guided participants through foundational surface treatment techniques in her home studio – offering practical tools and approaches to refine, resolve, and elevate their glass forms with intention and clarity.
With years of experience as a teaching practitioner, Lienors speaks to the consequences of shrinking access to formal training. As accessible learning pathways disappear, young artists are left without the technical depth needed to build fulfilling, sustainable practices. As a result, aesthetic outcomes within the medium face compromise, and the new generation of glassmakers risk being shaped by constraint rather than possibility.
The surface of objects can be deceptive and ambiguous. Glass filters light, revealing the world around it within its own surface while projecting its own presence.
Cross Currents accentuates the lens-like optical qualities of glass with the theme of waterlily to elicit gentle entanglements, between leaf and water, object and place, surface and depth.
Anemone responds to the fluidity of form found in the glass hot shop and refined through coldworking processes.
Cross Currents, 2023, Blown and lathe worked glass, 210 H x 300 W x 150mm D. Photographed by Fred Kroh.
Anemone, 2025, Blown and lathe worked glass, 150 H x 70 W x 45mm D. Photographed by Fred Kroh.
Lienors' artist talk at r.a.g.e.
Lienors' artist talk at r.a.g.e.
Machine controls and stop button
The lathe
Lienors explaining cold working processes
Lienors touching cold worked glass
The lathe wheel
Lienors carving at the lathe
Lienors showing the puntil removal
Lienors adjusting the mini lathe
Lienors hands
Lienors carving
Lienors' wheels
Lienors' wheels
Lienors and Laura discussing cold working methodology
Eva and Laura cold working