Close-up from above of hands holding either side of a wooden box holding a clear glass cast butterfly, fruit and fish with gold embellishments. Item by Effie Burns and titled "land sea sky".

09-09-2026

CGS Cabinet of Curiosities – buy your favourite now!

Layered glass picture featuring photographs made using recycled glass.

03-09-2026

Visit The Other Glass/The Art of Recycled Glass exhibition

A dual image featuring glassblower Phoebe Stubbs leaning on a table of her glass bottles and glasses with racks of large glass vases in bright colours behind her. The other image shows a close up of Tobias Newbigin grinding the edge of a sheet of frosted glass with a cut star in the centre against a wheel.

26-08-2026

Contemporary glass makers receive 2026 QEST awards

A dual image featuring a man in hard hat reaching up to repair a traditional stained glass window on the left and on the right a close-up of a woman painting on coloured glass on a light table.

24-08-2026

The Glaziers’ Company Charity opens Annual Grants Scheme

A close-up of two hands holding thin wires that are joined to an old stained glass window and being wound round a reinforcing bar.

23-08-2026

Sign up for ICON stained glass group conference 2026

Features

Aqua blue carved stained glass panel featuring a swimming creature by Jonathan Soper.

Carved glass | 13-08-2026

The art of making carved stained glass

Jonathan Soper is one of a few glass artists working with this niche and skilled technique to create glowing, coloured glass panels. Here he...
A mid blue square sided shallow box supporting small cubes of cut and polished glass layers in angled pink cubes. All made by Stacey Poultney and this sculpture is titled Urban Echoes.

Mixed media | 09-07-2026

Renaissance man

Glass artist Stacey Poultney talks about the evolution of his practice and his aspirations to make brutalist-inspired, kinetic pieces, drawing on his...
A highly detailed and rich hand-painted woodland scene in stained glass featuring fox and deer amid lush planting and tree trunks.

Stained glass | 21-06-2026

An inquisitive nature

Petri Anderson explains how he unknowingly started his career in stained glass at a prestigious studio and how he continues to channel his inner...

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Close-up from above of hands holding either side of a wooden box holding a clear glass cast butterfly, fruit and fish with gold embellishments. Item by Effie Burns and titled "land sea sky".

Exhibitions | 09-09-2026

CGS Cabinet of Curiosities – buy your favourite now!

The Contemporary Glass Society’s (CGS) Cabinet of Curiosities exhibition, which launched at the August 2026 International Festival of Glass (IFoG)...
Layered glass picture featuring photographs made using recycled glass.

Exhibitions | 03-09-2026

Visit The Other Glass/The Art of Recycled Glass exhibition

Stourbridge Glass Museum invites visitors to explore a new perspective on glass in a new international exhibition called The Other Glass/The Art of...
A dual image featuring glassblower Phoebe Stubbs leaning on a table of her glass bottles and glasses with racks of large glass vases in bright colours behind her. The other image shows a close up of Tobias Newbigin grinding the edge of a sheet of frosted glass with a cut star in the centre against a wheel.

Training | 26-08-2026

Contemporary glass makers receive 2026 QEST awards

Two glass specialists have received training grants in the latest round of financial awards from the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust (QEST). The...

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Exhibitions | 28-12-2022

In the Making exhibition at Glasmuseet Ebeltoft

Launching on 14 January 2023, the In the Making exhibition at Denmark’s Glasmuseet Ebeltoft showcases the creative processes of 10 younger glass...

Fundraising | 27-12-2022

CGS raffle raises almost £2k

Each year the Contemporary Glass Society (CGS) holds a fundraising raffle. This is an important way to support the CGS to put on its many events....

Flameworking | 24-12-2022

Sculpting history

Glass artist Amber Cowan captures the past in her detailed dioramas in vintage colours that are inspired by, and incorporate, glass from now closed...

Business | 24-12-2022

New round of QEST funding for craftspeople

Applications open on 9 January 2023 for the next round of funding for craftspeople from the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust (QEST). QEST awards...

News | 20-12-2022

QEST supports two glass artists to progress their practice

Two glass artists have been awarded Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust (QEST) Scholarships in the latest round of grants. The successful entrants are...

Collaborations | 19-12-2022

Fashion Awards trophies created from coloured glass rods

A collaboration with The Glass Foundry in the Cotswolds has resulted in trophies made from glass rods for the Fashion Awards 2022. British-Nigerian...
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