Features
hot glass | 11-01-2026
A splash of colour
Ruth Shelley brings the palette and pattern of the world around her into her vibrant glass vessels and enjoys using gravity to transform her pieces....
Collaborations | 28-12-2025
Strengthening contemporary glass links with Japan
CGS Chair Sarah Brown reviews her latest glass-focused visit to Japan – via Shanghai – a decade after her first trip in collaboration with the...
| 12-12-2025
A stitch in time
Emmy Palmer found fame in the BBC tv series Make It At Market in 2021, with her trademark knitted wire work that was encased in blown and polished...
News
Competition | 20-01-2026
Apply for Lord Mayor’s stained glass roundel competition 2026
Once again, the Reflections of The Lord Mayor Stained Glass Roundel Design Competition is inviting entries for the 2026 edition. This year marks the...
Exhibitions | 15-01-2026
Parndon Mill Gallery Glasshaus XVIII exhibition
Jane Vincent previews a new exhibition featuring resident glassmakers and Just Glass members in Essex. As we begin another year it is such a joy to...
Pate de verre | 10-01-2026
Pate de verre entry shortlisted for John Ruskin Prize
A pestle and mortar created from pate de verre glass and made by CGS member Keith Dymond has been shortlisted for the 8th John Ruskin Prize....
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Events | 19-08-2022
Applications open for next ‘Glass, Meet the Future’ film festival
North Lands Creative’s ‘Glass, Meet the Future’ (GMTF) film festival will return for a third time in January 2023. Applications are now open...
Collaborations | 16-08-2022
Collaborations exhibition features 10 pairs of glass artists
Twenty of the UK’s leading glass artists have come together to make new and exciting glasswork to be featured in an exhibition called...
Stained glass | 15-08-2022
Travellers’ Tales fine art exhibition features stained glass
Stained glass, pencil drawings and watercolours by Ilkley-based artist Jonathan Cooke and his son Thomas will be featured in an exhibition at Mill...
Exhibitions | 14-08-2022
Cold! exhibition celebrates art glass made with coldworking processes
An exhibition focused on glass art finished using different coldworking techniques is on display at The Glass Museum Lette in Germany from 27 August...
Exhibitions | 13-08-2022
Venice Glass Week to host ‘Maru Mori’ blown glass
Dutch glass artist Bibi Smit will be showing her colourful blown glass sculptures, ‘Maru Mori: The Heartbreaking Simplicity of Ordinary Things’...
Competition | 11-08-2022
Winners of Glass Sellers’/CGS Graduate Glass Prize announced
The winner of the joint Glass Sellers’ and Contemporary Glass Society (CGS) Graduate Glass Prize 2022 is Polly Thomas-Colquhoun, with her stained...
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