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My name is Ema Kelly, but you will find me trading under the name 'Duck in a Bucket Designs'. I am a glass designer and maker based in Leicester, and I specialise in hot glass making techniques.
I became hooked on glass making when I first tried glass blowing in 2003 as part of my Degree, and I've been doing it ever since. Like many other glass artists, I have a fascination for this 'solid liquid'. It has endless possibilities for design, and never fails to inspire me. I am also influenced by my surroundings and mood...which is why you will find t hat a lot of my work has a playful element to it. The colours of glass available to work with are fantastic, and lend themselves very well to my cheerful designs.
I love to create pieces that make people smile and that can brighten up a day.
'Smiles are contagious', so everyone say CHEESE!!!
Me...
Exhibitions and events...
Education and awards...
2011 
• BBC Radio Leicester on air interview.
• Love Glass, Thoresby Park, Notts.
• 8th Annual Bead Fair, Stourbridge, West Midlands.
• Running the Glass Gallery and selling work at Art in Action, Waterperry Gardens, Oxfordshire.
• Crafted, Atkins Building, Creative Hinckley, Leicestershire.
• Riverside Festival, Leicester.
• Demonstrating at the Bead Day, Broadfield House Glass Museum, Stourbridge, West Midlands.
• Featured Artist at the South Holland Arts Centre, Spalding, Lincolnshire.
• Makers Mart, LCB Depot, Leicester.
• Craft & Design Selected Award Winners Exhibition, Ferrers Gallery, Leicestershire.
• Fresh, Millgate Gallery, Newark, Notts.
• The British Craft Trade Fair, Harrogate.
• SOCK, Loughborough Town Hall, Leicestershire.
• Merge. Oundle, Northants.
• Cambridge Contemporary Glass Fair, Cambridge.
• BBC Radio Leicester on air interview.
• Christmas Exhibition, Pyramid Gallery, York.
• Christmas Exhibition, Bankfield Museum, Halifax.
• Christmas Exhibition, Rugby Museum and Art Gallery, Warwickshire.
• Open 22. Leicester City Gallery.
• Merge. Oundle, Northants.
• The Art Market. Holmfirth, West Yorkshire.
• Bead Fair, The International Festival of Glass, Stourbridge, West Midlands.
• Fresh. Beetroot Tree Gallery, Derbyshire.
• Demonstrating at Art in Action, Oxfordshire.
• Fusion. Catmose Gallery, Oakham.
• The British Craft Trade Fair, Harrogate.
• Teaching creativity workshops.
2009
• Islington Contemporary Art and Design Fair. Candid Art Gallery, Islington, London.
• Journées de la perle de Verre (The days of the glass beads). Sars-Poteries, France.
• Volunteering at Art in Action.
• Tempest. Corning, New York, USA. Zurich, Switzerland. Sars-Poteries, France.
• Same Difference. Corning, New York, USA.
• Teaching Full Professional Grounding Introduction to Lampworking class, with Sally Carver (Red Hot Sal). Studio 19, Leicestershire.
• Teaching lampworking workshops. ICG, Brierley Hill.
2008
• M & M: teaching lampworking master class with Emma Green (Bead Envy). Studio 19, Leicestershire.
• Teaching lampworking workshops. ICG, Brierley Hill.
• Centrepiece. Birmingham Town Hall and Symphony Hall.
• Tempest. The Ruskin Centre, Stourbridge.
• Summer Shut Down at Dartington Crystal.
• Next Big Thing. The Red House Glass Cone, Stourbridge.
• Grave of Flowers. Brierley Hill.
• First Gather. Himley Hall.
• Fired Up. Ferrers Gallery, Leicestershire.
• Art in Action: demonstrating lampworking. Waterperry Gardens, Oxfordshire.
• New Designers, London.
• DeMontfort University Degree Show, Leicester.
2006
• Un.tiltled: photo shoot of my work for a fashion designer. Leicester.
• Fabricate, LCB Depot Leicester
Me...
Exhibitions and events...
Education and awards...
2011
• Lampworking masterclass by Marshall Hyde. 2010
• Craft & Design Selected Awards Finalist.
• Nominated for Young Ambassador of the Year for The Prince's Trust Celebrate Success Awards.
• Creative Leicestershire Development Bursary Award.
• Silver Award in the Craft & Design Selected Awards.
• Safeguarding Awareness qualification.
• Glass Tutor for the London Jewellery School.
• Lampworking masterclass by Astrid Riedel
• Lampworking masterclass by Teresa Laliberte.
• Lampworking masterclass by Claudia Trimbur-Pagel.
2009
• Young Ambassador for The Prince's Trust.
• Lampworking masterclass by Michi Suzuki.
2008
• The Prince's Trust Enterprise Loan and Grant.
• Plowden and Thompson Award for Best Interpretaion of Glass Quality
• OCNWM Glass Techniques Technology, International Glass Centre, Brierley Hill.
• NCFE Level 1 Glass Blowing.
• NCFE Level 1 Lampworking.
• Lampworking masterclass by Sarah Hornik.
• Lampworking masterclass by Diana East.
2007
• BA(Hons) Design Crafts, DeMontfort University, Leicester.
• Regular lampworking tuition from Diana East at DeMontfort University, Leicester.
2005
• Work experience at LoCo Glass Studio, Cirencester.
2004
• Foundation Art, DeMontfort University, Leicester.
Supported by the Prince's Trust