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Kilnworking | 23-04-2025
My warren of kiln-formed glass powder textures
Canadian glass maker and educator Bob Leatherbarrow explains how he applies his scientific mind to the challenges of creating with glass powder, and...
Glassblowing | 08-04-2025
Glass artist interview with Emma Baker
Emma Baker’s love of glassblowing has taken her around the world to develop her practice. Her recent pieces focus on investigating the materiality...
Pate de verre | 20-03-2025
Glass artist interview with Rebecca Tanda
Fresh from her successful exhibition at Collect 2025 in London, Rebecca Tanda explains how she combines pâte-de-verre and flameworking techniques to...
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Exhibitions | 27-04-2025
Pyramid Gallery exhibition opportunity for UK-based CGS members
The Contemporary Glass Society (CGS) is delighted to invite UK-based CGS members to apply to exhibit at the Pyramid Gallery in York once again, as...
Events | 27-04-2025
Contemporary glass at London Craft Week 2025
Once again top-quality craft and design will be showcased at venues across London during London Craft Week, from 12-18 May 2025. Featuring 1,000+...
News | 22-04-2025
Crafters in the spotlight in new Dom Chinea podcast series
Many of us have been enjoying the third series of BBC1’s popular ‘Make it at Market’ (available now on iPlayer), featuring two stained glass...
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Cold working glass | 08-12-2023
A different dimension
Accomplished Czech glass artist Josef Marek focuses on simplicity of shape, enriched with cold working techniques like cutting and polishing, on the...
Exhibitions | 06-12-2023
Contemporary Pâte de Verre exhibition in Stourbridge
In January 2024, a unique exhibition of work by internationally acclaimed Pâte de Verre glass artists will be showing at Stourbridge Glass Museum...
Exhibitions | 04-12-2023
The Glass Heart exhibition to showcase 170 years of glass
A new London exhibition, ‘The Glass Heart’, will bring together key regional collections, techniques and artists for the first time at Two Temple...
Exhibitions | 30-11-2023
Exhibition highlights plight of salmon
A travelling exhibition to raise awareness of the diminishing wild salmon and steelhead fish populations, called ‘The Salmon School’, has...
| 30-11-2023
Glass artists win World Craft Masters awards
Glass artists from the Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand region have been acknowledged in the recent World Crafts Council Asia Pacific Region Craft...
Books | 30-11-2023
New book about the creation of Stourbridge Glass Museum
A book outlining how the Stourbridge Glass Museum turned from a dream into reality has been published by writer and broadcaster Graham Fisher MBE...