Lola Lazaro Hinks is a London-based glassmaker and photographer. Originally trained in photography, she explores the optical qualities of glass—how it manipulates light, space, and visual perception. She is particularly drawn to its ability to focus, refract, gather, and reflect light, as well as obscure, distort, and create illusion through opacity and layering. Her work investigates objects that obscure vision, occupying thresholds and liminal spaces that invite deeper ways of seeing. Inspired by the veiling of vision, she creates layered sculptures, containers, privacy screens, fans, and photograms. The photographic darkroom extends this exploration of the visible and invisible, through exposing the glass sculptures she makes into prints, revealing otherwise unseen sides of the piece. Her process is rooted in the physical act of making, combining traditional glassmaking techniques—casting, slumping, pâte de verre, and flameworking—in experimental ways.
She graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2018 with a MA in Ceramics and Glass, and completed her BA in Fine Art Photography from the Arts University Bournemouth in 2012. She has worked as an Artist Assistant for Anna Dickinson and Heike Brachlow and as a designer and maker for the Design companies, Based Upon and Haberdashery in London.
