Walker: I didn’t know anyone, really, apart from Deborah and Alexander, who were on the previous series –– I didn’t know who anyone was. Glass: Was there any particular guest judge that interested you? I just whacked it on something – so easy to do. I broke the lungs –– which was really awful, so I had to glue those back together. Walker: I got away really lucky, to be honest. Glass: What was the worst disaster that happened to you? It was seriously intense, the whole thing, because there was something every day, and you couldn’t ever relax, because you’d be whisked off to the thing to do an interview, the cold-working was a thing, the installation… We had two days off in the whole period, and those two days – it was the half-way point…and that’s when they actually advised us to start thinking about the final thing, soĮveryone started planning. Every day there was something related to the show. Glass: How many days did you have between episodes? So there’s a lot of frantic start-up, and you have to explain your concept and your idea, and all the different moves to assistants straight away, and that takes up time, you have to plan your coloring, and everything like that. And having the evening to plan was absolutely vital, but still, it was not long enough. Walker: It was really rigorous, and it was really intense. Glass : Was the timekeeping in the episodes as rigorous as it appears? It would have been a completely different feeling and story about it then, but the fact that I won it has literally saved both of us from ruin over the pandemic. I don’t know what would have happened if I hadn’t won. You don’t get paid for it, you’re takenĪway from your work for possibly seven weeks, and that was just terrifying… Bethany convinced me in the end to apply, and I’m so glad I did. I’d just bought it, it was going to be delivered the week we’d have to go… There was so much going on here at the time that I just thought, I can’t afford to do this. I never really watched anything like that, I wasn’t into the format… I knew it was a good thing for everyone, it was great to see it on TV, but I never really thought, "Oh I want to do that." I was reluctant to put myself in that situation, and, as well, I was having my furnace delivered. Walker: I was reluctant to do it in the first place… I’ve never seen glass as something to do competitively – it doesn’t make any sense to me. Glass: What did you learn from doing Blown Away ? You know, I was expecting someone from the Czech Republic at least and someone from Italy, but maybe that’s for the next one. It wasn’t what I was expecting, I thought that this time they might do more of a global thing. What did that feel like?Įlliot Walker: It was fun for me. Glass: The UrbanGlass Art Quarterly: You were the only person with no prior connection to North America on Blown Away. Below are some excerpts from the interview which he gave to Emma Park, Glass Quarterly's European correspondent, who is at work on a full-length feature on Walker as an artist and on his place in British contemporary glass, for an article that will appear in the forthcoming Summer 2021 print edition of Glass (#163), on newsstands June 1. Walker currently works from a studio in Hertford, England, with his girlfriend and fellow glass artist, Bethany Wood. He has just exhibited at Collect 2021 and is due to take up a residency at The Corning Museum of Glass, part of the prize for winning Blown Away, when circumstances permit. The combination of technical accomplishment and creativity in his glass sculptures, rounded off by quirky titles ( Cogito Ergo Sum, Mr Noteworthy, Bodge Job), proved to be a winning one. Elliot Walker was the unexpected champion of the second season of Neflix's Blown Away.
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