‘Perception and deception’: Australian glass art prize winner plays tricks on the eye

Tim Edwards spent 35 hours grinding his work into a glass illusion that took out the $15,000 Tom Malone prize

Artist Tim Edwards has won the prestigious Tom Malone prize for Australian glass art with a work that plays tricks with the viewer's eye.

The winning work, titled Ellipse #8, is a luminous blue form 47cm tall and from some angles it is difficult to tell whether the glass is two- or three-dimensional. The piece is 3D but not very thick with a depth of just 8mm.