Fractured. The title alone demonstrates the current modern society that is fragmented, broken, and distracting as people consume life in byte-sized morsels. The gold and silver diamond represent precious life. Sometimes people have scars or broken pieces that they mend, seeking the reflection in the bent and broken mirrors keeps them on track. They follow the lighted beacon through life's challenges. Julie Conway, owner of Illuminata Art Glass Design is a glass artist and lighting designer renowned for her spectacular environments with blown glass and light.


Julie Conway, founder of Illuminata Art Glass Design in Seattle, WA, USA is a glass artist/ lighting designer who reveals her perspective by the refraction and reflection of light through glass. Her 20+ years studio practice features bespoke lighting and site-specific installations, for public space, hospitality, and residential homes. Her signature glassworks are collected and in the US and abroad, and have received several international design awards. 

 A melding of functional design, and art, makes each hand-blown glass fixture the focal point of architectural space. 
Julie operates a vibrant studio, in Seattle WA, where she conducts talented teams of glassmakers, fabricators, contractors and electricians to create her custom illuminated glass commissions. LUMi Collection is Julie's new ready-made series of glass lighting and decor offered from her studio. Many of LUMi products are made with recycled glass in a zero-carbon footprint glass furnace fueled with waste-vegetable oil to produce a truly green glass design product. 

Julie is the founder of a non-profit organization (BioGlass.org) that is dedicated to the research, development and use of alternative fuel sources for glassmaking.

Julie Conway, founder of Illuminata Art Glass Design in Seattle, WA, USA is a glass artist/ lighting designer who reveals her perspective of light through glass in her signature practice site-specific installations.