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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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Exhibitions | 12-04-2022
Seascapes in glass shown at Coburg Prize exhibition
Among the 90 glass artists chosen for the Coburg Prize for Contemporary Glass 2022 exhibition, Bibi Smit is showing her new work, ‘Sands’. The...
Exhibitions | 09-04-2022
Diverse glass techniques to be exhibited at Farnham gallery
The Contemporary Glass Society (CGS) is collaborating with Farnham’s New Ashgate Gallery to present ‘Joyful Reflections’, an exhibition...
Mixed media | 07-04-2022
Tim Tate: Time Traveller
The US artist Tim Tate says he is as at home in Greek and Roman times as he is in the present day, taking inspiration for his work from across the...
Exhibitions | 06-04-2022
Apply for two shows at Pyramid Gallery, York
The Pyramid Gallery in York will host two exhibitions of Contemporary Glass Society (CGS) members’ artwork at the same time in Autumn 2022. One...
Collaborations | 05-04-2022
NGC Glass Exchange initiative features life-sized glass betting shop
Four major glass commissions by leading contemporary artists are now open to the public at sites across the North East of England, including ‘Ghost...
Exhibitions | 31-03-2022
CGS and Makers Guild in Wales launch joint exhibition ‘Flow’
Between 2 April and 29 May 2022 visitors to the Craft in the Bay gallery in Cardiff can see an exhibition of work by members of the Contemporary...
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