Features
Sandblasting | 21-08-2025
Having a blast
Ruth Dresman loves to celebrate the joy of the natural world in her distinctive artwork. Here she describes her contemporary glass practice, which...
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...
News
Exhibitions | 19-08-2025
Visit The Four Seasons CGS exhibition at Pyramid Gallery
A celebration of contemporary glass art inspired by Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons violin concerto is taking place at Pyramid Gallery, York, this...
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...
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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...
Exhibitions | 26-11-2023
New prizes announced for British Glass Biennale 2024
The organisers of the British Glass Biennale have announced several new prizes for the 2024 event. This brings the total number of prizes to 14 at...