Features
Flameworking | 08-12-2024
Creature comforts: Interview with Lea Lenhart
Lea Lenhart has developed her childhood love of glass beads into a glass practice that celebrates nature and beauty through flameworked glass...
Fused glass | 23-11-2024
Under the microscope: interview with Rachael Durkan
Rachael Durkan has a fascination with the intricate patterns of nature at a cellular level. Through careful, kiln-formed glass fusing, she captures...
Cast glass | 07-11-2024
Never too late
Ahuva Zeloof began pursuing her sculpting career after the age of 70 and is now exploring glass as a medium. Here she explains how she found her way...
News
News | 22-12-2024
Outgoing CGS Chair Sue receives her gift
As many of you know, the Contemporary Glass Society’s (CGS) charismatic Chair, Susan Purser Hope, has stepped down from the role after seven years...
News | 21-12-2024
Heritage Crafts awards for contemporary glass workers
Heritage Crafts has awarded training bursaries to two contemporary glass workers to enable them to learn heritage craft skills. Glass flameworker...
Business | 20-12-2024
New EU GPSR regulation
On 13 December 2024, the European Union (EU) introduced a new set of safety regulations, which affect people selling consumer products to the EU and...
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| 14-04-2024
Bibi Smit exhibits glass installation in Venice
Wouldn’t it be nice to be in a space where you can forget everything, turn off your thoughts and only focus on your senses for a moment? To find a...
| 11-04-2024
QEST Sanderson Rising Star craft award
Do you know a UK-based emerging maker worthy of recognition who you would like to nominate for an impressive award? The Queen Elizabeth Scholarship...
Business | 09-04-2024
Apply for series 3 of Make it at Market
Many of us have seen the popular BBC tv series ‘Make it at Market’, which helps up-and-coming artisans to progress a career in their chosen...
Glassblowing | 08-04-2024
Grand designs: an odyssey that started with orchids
American glassblower Jason Gamrath sells his larger-than-life botanical sculptures for many hundreds of thousands of dollars today, but he spent...
Exhibitions | 06-04-2024
CGS and SGS members apply for joint exhibition
Would you like the opportunity to show your glass work in Scotland this autumn? If you are a UK-based member of the Contemporary Glass Society (CGS)...
| 31-03-2024
Exhibit at Blowfish Glass Gallery in Fifteen x Fifteen exhibition
Blowfish Glass Gallery is looking for 30 glass artists to showcase their creations in its ‘Fifteen x Fifteen’ exhibition in Stourbridge as part...