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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Competition | 22-12-2023
Stained glass roundel design competition
Stained glass artists and students are invited to enter the prestigious Reflections of The Lord Mayor (#LMReflects) Professional Stained Glass...
Competition | 21-12-2023
Competition for emerging stained glass artists
The British Society of Master Glass Painters (BSMGP) has announced a competition to design and make a stained glass window for the RAF Club in...
Stained glass | 20-12-2023
Free spirit
Dutch stained glass artist Ellen van Dijk is pushing the traditional boundaries of the medium and showing, through her finely detailed portraits,...
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...