Sandra de Clerck

​After completing a seven-year course in Monumental and Plastic Arts at the St. Lucas Institute (Ghent, B), Sandra continued to learn more about glass as a material by working with prominent artists worldwide. Ever since the beginning of her artistic career in 1993, she has been been specializing in the narrative and expressive possibilities of glass using a wide range of glass techniques such as stained glass, blown glass, kiln casted glass and pate de verre to express her ideas. In her approach, she attempt more and more to bring this medium to a larger autonomy, apart from utilitarian or decorative ends. She recycles ancient old techniques to process and revitalize contemporary themes. She uses the anachronistic Confusion as a character style and this is further substantively continued in her latest work. she's  also the head of the Ika glass department at the institute of arts and crafts in Mechelen and in recent years curator of glass exhibitions in museums in Europe.
Her work is represented in private and museum collections around the world.