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Four uneven shaped, rounded glass pods in different colours with etched designs cut into the surface to reveal clear glass below.

Graal technique | 07-09-2025

The seed of a new idea

Michele Oberdieck describes how her artistic journey took her from textiles to glass, using blowing and graal techniques to develop colour blends and...
An aqua blue bowl decorated with birds and leaves created through sandblasting the surface of the glass.

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...
Detail of 'Fragment Dresser' glass and light installation showing close-up of flat clear glass etched cups, jug, plate etc.

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...

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Five pieces of abstract glass sculpture forming Morphology Collection made from ribbon-like distorted circles of white glass with aqua linings and small frosted balls of glass with each one.

Graduate Prize | 09-09-2025

CGS/Glass Sellers’ Graduate Prize winners announced

We are delighted to announce the results of the Contemporary Glass Society (CGS) and Glass Sellers’ Graduate Prize and those who will be featured...
Image of glass vessel made by Dale Chihuly on the left with emerald green interior, wavy rim in yellow and orange and contrasting dark outside with busy patterns and mark making. It is called Black Pine Soft Cylinder with Cadmium Orange Lip Wrap. On the right an image of an amber colour cast glass sculpture featuring angles and a circular structure by Konstantin Valchev called Illusion.

Exhibitions | 08-09-2025

Bulgaria’s International Festival of Glass opens this month

Bulgaria’s International Biennale of Glass (IBG) celebrates its fifth edition this month with an exhibition of around 200 works by artists from 50...
A selection of craft items on a table made in a variety of materials that were all finalists in the Loewe Craft Prize 2025. View includes a glass vessel by Scott Chaseling.

Competition | 28-08-2025

Apply for Loewe Craft Prize 2026

Launched in 2016, the Loewe Foundation’s Craft Prize is a prestigious international event celebrating the best in modern craft across a range of...

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Exhibitions | 30-03-2023

Corazón Salvaje exhibition in Spain

From 24 March to 25 June 2023, Manuela Castro Martins will be exhibiting her glass art at Museo de Arte do Vidrio de Alcorcón (MAVA) in Madrid,...

Competition | 29-03-2023

2023 Graduates save the date for Glass Prize application

If you are graduating from a British or Irish accredited course in 2023 and you work with glass, make a note to apply for this year’s Glass...

Exhibitions | 28-03-2023

Fungi and glass exhibition, plus rebranding, at Glasmuseet Ebeltoft

Denmark’s Glasmuseet Ebeltoft will launch a major solo exhibition, ‘Evolutions’, featuring work co-created with nature, this April. The works...

News | 27-03-2023

Issue 82 of Glass Network features resilience theme

Contemporary Glass Society (CGS) members will shortly be receiving their copies of the May edition of our print magazine, Glass Network. As our usual...

Installation | 26-03-2023

Bibi Smit’s latest sculpture at Mauritshuis Museum

A large sculpture by Bibi Smit, called ‘Whirl of Life’, has been installed at the Mauritshuis Museum in The Netherlands. It was commissioned to...

Books | 25-03-2023

New book about Bryce Glass

A new book investigates the history and production of the Bryce Glass Company, one of the most successful designers and producers of pattern glass...

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