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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...
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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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Stained glass | 12-05-2022
‘Kicking Glass’ book teaches copper foil technique
If you are interested in learning the traditional copper foil technique for stained glass, glass artist Neile Cooper has written a new book to guide...
Graal technique | 06-05-2022
Capturing life’s experiences in contemporary glass
Vic Bamforth’s glass has an instantly recognisable, often humorous, painterly style, which he combines with his own version of the specialist Graal...
Exhibitions | 04-05-2022
Baldwin and Guggisberg exhibition marks reopening of Conches glass museum
Musée du Verre de Conches in France is marking its reopening with a new solo exhibition by the glass artists Philip Baldwin and Monica Guggisberg...
Events | 26-04-2022
New Stourbridge Glass Museum opens
The new Stourbridge Glass Museum opened in early April 2022 with events over three days: a VIP launch on the evening of 7 April, exhibitor’s...
Exhibitions | 25-04-2022
Glass workshops help domestic abuse survivors
An exhibition of glass art made during glass workshops for survivors of domestic abuse will be shown in London from 30 June to 3 July 2022. There...
Flameworking | 21-04-2022
Life stories in glass
When young, Carmen Lozar’s favourite fairy tale was ‘Thumbelina’. Today, she extends that enduring fascination with miniature worlds by...
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