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Glass artist Malina Cipleu stands to the right of an installation of cast glass organics rounded shapes in different sizes in tones of grey mounted on a wall and spanning a width of about 2 metres. The main collection of larger pieces is concentrated in the centre, with gradually smaller pieces spreading out to left and right in a tapering formation.

Installation | 21-10-2026

Invisible systems

Modular installations that allow the forms to interact and adapt are the speciality of kiln-formed glass artist Malina Cipleu. Here she tells Linda...
A chunky solid band bangle made with faceted yellow glass with a hexagonal mirrored glass feature detail displayed on a round perspex plinth. Small glass objects blurred in the background.

Training | 03-10-2026

Avon lady glass instruction

Joanna Manousis outlines how she brought glass, chemistry, sculpture and jewellery together to inspire students at Birmingham School of Jewellery in...
9 cuboid clear cast glass vertical structures with cast glass life-sized figures inside representing anti-Soviet partisans. It is a glass installation in a city square in Poland and this image is taken at night so the cuboids are lit inside and with strip lights around each one. They stand in a military square formation.

Public art | 28-09-2026

The creation of the Anti-Soviet Partisans’ Memorial

Glass artists and architects Tomasz Urbanowicz and Dr Konrad Urbanowicz, who run the ARCHIGLASS studio in Poland, have conceived and created an...

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About 16 clear glass rectangles and squares suggestive of a cityscape, called Ghost Town and made by Cathryn Shilling.

Exhibitions | 23-10-2026

Apply for Women in Glass exhibition at London Glassblowing

London Glassblowing invites applications from UK-based women working in glass to take part in ‘Women in Glass’, a group exhibition opening in...
Emerging artist Izzy Cheyne Jones stands amid an installation of hanging clear glass rectangles linked together in loops and held by numerous brass coloured oval rings held on vertical wires. The effect is of a series of tent canopy tops.

Training | 22-10-2026

CGS 2026 Amanda Moriarty Prize winner announced

This year’s winner of the 2026 Contemporary Glass Society (CGS) Amanda Moriarty Prize is Izzy Cheyne Jones. Izzy will be mentored by Emma Woffenden...
A moody close up in black and white of the now closed National Glass Centre.

News | 21-10-2026

Council agrees Article 4 Direction for National Glass Centre

Sunderland City Council’s cabinet has agreed to make an Article 4 Direction for the National Glass Centre (NGC), a move intended to bring any...

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News | 30-01-2021

This year’s Collect art fair moves online

The 2021 edition of the Crafts Council’s Collect art fair for contemporary craft and design will take place online this year. Collect takes place...

News | 21-01-2021

CGS members win at China’s 5th Hejian Glass Art Competition

Five members of the Contemporary Glass Society (CGS) were awarded prizes at China’s 5th Hejian Glass Art

3D printing of glass | 20-01-2021

The evolution of 3D printed glass

Glass Network digital’s editor, Linda Banks, examines the progress that has been made in glass 3D printing in recent

News | 20-01-2021

‘A Postcard From…’ CGS member exhibition and sale

The CGS is inviting members to create and show something that reflects future travels to places near and far, or visits to family and

News | 19-01-2021

Calum Dawes wins the 2021 Amanda Moriarty Prize

This year’s winner of the CGS Amanda Moriarty Prize, Calum Dawes, says the award will enable him to extend the work he has been developing on his...

Cast glass | 08-01-2021

Lovely bubbly – the art of controlling air bubbles in glass

Jo Mitchell has melded the materiality of glass and the immateriality of the air bubble to create glass art that investigates ‘humanness’ and...

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