MSDG (MOLY SABATA GLEIZES DANGAR) was produced on the occasion of the 3rd Isère Department Contemporary Art Prize and Moly-Sabata artist residency. The work is composed of three elements: two blown glass masks, sandstone sculptures and a research publication.

MSDG is the result of an immersion into Moly-Sabata’s history and two key figures in the founding of the residency: the Australian potter Anne Dangar and the French painter Albert Gleizes.

After a period of enquiry within Dangar’s former pottery studio and the Moly-Sabata archives, a formal language developed through research into Gleizes’s symbolic theory of rotation (Towards a Plastic Consciousness, Paris, 1932) and Dangar’s correspondence, drawings, and ceramics (Anne Dangar: Ceramicist, Cubism in Everyday Life, Valence, 2016).

From a series of stoneware compositions and bas reliefs were created two blown glass masks evocative of both figures. Their colouring in a “Gleizes palette” tone, plays with both opacity and translucency. As hybrid portraits, they seek to summon the enduring presence and intertwined legacies of Dangar and Gleizes—figures whose relationship unfolds across letters, memory, and material form.