Features
Community projects | 10-08-2025
Transformational material
Mixed media artist and CGS board member Linda Norris talks about the importance of community in her practice and how working with glass with...
Lampworking | 22-07-2025
Celebrating 35 years of creating glass
Ian Pearson looks back over his long career in scientific glassblowing and creative lampworking with his characteristic frank and humorous style. My...
Cold working glass | 09-07-2025
The depth of glass
Carolin Zibulka explains how her family’s secret glass ‘lavacoating’ technique is evolving as she develops her practice, reinforcing her...
News
Exhibitions | 16-08-2025
One Island, Many Visions sculpture exhibition in Dorset
Glass sculptors Colin Reid, Karen Browning and Rebecca Newnham are taking part in the ‘One Island, Many Visions’ event in Portland this autumn....
Appeal | 10-08-2025
Appeal to save The World of Glass in St Helens
One of Merseyside’s most treasured cultural landmarks, The World of Glass (TWOG), is celebrating its 25th anniversary but facing imminent closure...
Events | 30-07-2025
Invitation to CGS Glass in Wales Symposium
The Contemporary Glass Society (CGS) invites members and non-members to a Glass in Wales symposium, to be held at Aberystwyth Arts Centre on Saturday...
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Mosaic | 22-09-2024
Interview with mosaic artist Sarah Pryke
South African artist Dr Sarah Pryke has brought a scientific eye to the creation of her finely detailed glass mosaic pieces. Linda Banks finds out...
Events | 10-09-2024
The World of Glass to host 2026 International Festival of Glass
The Glass Art Society (GAS) has announced that the first International Festival of Glass (IFoG) under its stewardship will be held at The World of...
Stained glass | 09-09-2024
Interview: stained glass artist Debora Coombs
Debora Coombs is an accomplished stained glass artist with a love of geometric patterns that has led her to push the boundaries of her practice to...
Events | 05-09-2024
Register for Making Futures conference
The 2024 Making Futures conference, on the theme ‘Beyond Objects, Materiality at the Edge of Making’, takes place at Arts University Plymouth in...
Stained glass | 02-09-2024
ICON stained glass group conference and AGM
The Institute of Conservation (ICON) Stained Glass Group conference and AGM takes place on 26 October 2024 in Chester, UK. Titled ‘Beyond the Whall...
Flameworking | 26-08-2024
Like a moth to a flame
US glass artist Dan Hoffman specialises in flameworking tiny borosilicate glass molecules and complex geometric structures, some of which are smaller...