Sam Juparulla Wickman, Glass in relation to my mothers country, interview

Since 2004 Sam Juparulla Wickman has led the Indigenous production of warm, slumped glass, opening up a whole new medium for Aboriginal artists to pursue. His craft was influenced by art as much as by working with Malcom Jagamarra, a Warlpiri man, part of the contemporary desert art movement. A large slumped glass work, titled My Mother's Country , was a finalist in the 2005 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award. Sam has been represented at the international Glass Week held at the Museum of American Glass held in Wheaton, New Jersey and the SOFA Expo in Chicago, USA. Craft Australia interviewed Sam in Albury, New South Wales about the development of his practice in glass.