It's a humble setting — a shed at the fringes of an industrial Tasmanian suburb — but inside those concrete walls, spinning in thousand-degree heat, history is in motion.

In this Launceston studio, Anne Clifton is creating glass art of international calibre.

In June, her piece Vetrograph Rubinda was acquired by London's Victoria and Albert Museum — the world's biggest decorative arts and design collection.

Possibly the first Tasmanian craft item collected by the institution in about 100 years, the feat had Clifton "leaping out" of her skin.

"I'm like, 'no, I'm not good enough, it's not good enough', but that's the imposter syndrome sinking in," she says.

" After about 10 minutes I got over myself and I remembered that it's the work, it's not me. "

The vase-like piece draws on Clift

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