Danish curator and art historian Mikkel Elming will join Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, the contemporary glass museum in Ebeltoft, Denmark, on 1 January 2022.
Glasmuseet Ebeltoft is a private, self-financing institution established and directed by the Foundation for the Collection of Contemporary, International Glass Art. The museum aims to present the best in contemporary, international glass art through an ambitious exhibition programme.
It holds a unique collection of glass art from around the world, as well as having a professionally-run glassblowing studio on site.
Elming has been involved with Aarhus’ contemporary art scene for a number of years. He was co-creator and leader of Regelbau 411 and Foreningen for Samtidskunst (The Association for Contemporary Art).
Speaking of his new role, Elming commented, “I am very much looking forward to working together with the museum’s skilled team and many voluntary helpers. Glasmuseet Ebeltoft offers a wide range of unique experiences, and together we will create an even more exciting and alluring museum.
“In developing the museum, we will be focusing on sustainability, digital opportunities and on exploring new approaches to working with artists and glass. I am very excited and can’t wait to get started.”
Chairman of the Museum Foundation’s Board, Henning Kovsted, added, “Mikkel Elming is a rising star on the contemporary Danish art scene, and we are proud that he will be the next Director of the museum. We are welcoming the new generation’s view on the museum’s practice and we are convinced that Glasmuseet Ebeltoft will continue the current positive development under Mikkel’s leadership.”
Mikkel Elming has an MA in History of Art from Aarhus University. He is experienced as a curator, project manager and art communicator.
Glasmuseet Ebeltoft was inaugurated in 1986 and is considered one of the world leaders in its field. It is under the patronage of Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II.
Image: Mikkel Elming, who will take over as director of the museum on 1 January 2022.
Glass artist Laura Quinn worked with fashion designer Helen Hayes to create an elegant dress that featured a striking collar made from glass rods. This project is run by the Design and Crafts Council of Ireland (DCCI) and the Council of Irish Fashion Designers (CIFD).
Each year, under the remit of the project, craftspeople and fashion designers are paired to create new, and even unlikely, collaborative wearable pieces. This initiative is the brainchild of Edmund Shanahan, chair of the Council of Irish Fashion Designers (CIFD), whose vision was for ‘designers and craftspersons to appreciate each other’s skills and to explore new ways to develop and present their work’.
This is the third year that the project has run, and one of the eight collaborative pairs this time included glass artist and Contemporary Glass Society member, Laura Quinn, who was paired with Dublin-based fashion designer, Helen Hayes.
All of Laura’s and Helen’s design conversations happened over video calls, both because the collaboration was carried out during lockdown and also because they were in different geographical locations.
The pair posted material samples and templates back and forth between the UK and Ireland before proceeding to make the final piece. Both remarked on how difficult it was to gauge the colour and tone of their materials over a computer screen, so this process relied on being able to see and feel the glass and ribbon fabric in real life.
To combine their aesthetic, making skill and design, Laura and Helen sought to find commonalities in their work. Using linear materials such as the ribbons and glass rods, they considered how the materials related to the human form. They took into account the movement and undulation of the ribbon and glass as they wrapped around the body, showing off the way both materials played with light. This was the inspiration for the wearable piece they designed.
The design process, featuring Laura’s glass rods on the template.
Laura used lampworking to create the glass element of the look. The glass was combined with her digitally-designed, and waterjet cut, silicone rubber elements, which allowed the structure to be flexible around the moving body.
Each glass component was designed to slot in and out of the silicone, enabling repair and replacement, as well as bespoke fitting to the wearer.
Flexibility and adaptability are key design elements in most of Laura’s work, and here they allowed the glass section to be adapted to fit the model. Through video calls, Laura directed Helen on how to adjust the fit of the glass structure so it could be worn comfortably by model Katie Geoghegan.
Helen created the dress using over 500 metres of ribbon, stitched to create a pleated effect. This pleating is the signature of Helen’s work. The result is a stunning look that uses linear materials, both glass rods and ribbon, that play with light as they undulate around the body.
The use of fine ribbon and glass rods created an elegant silhouette that shimmered in the light.
Laura said of the experience, “Normally I shy away from colour, focusing mainly on clear glass in my work, because there is just so much for me to explore with the optic effects of glass alone. But this collaboration has given me the confidence to start to include colour in my work, whilst keeping the overall form streamlined to explore how the glass interacts differently with light.
“Working with Helen was such a joy, and the outcome of the project is better than either of us expected. It has reminded me that, even though it’s so easy to get wrapped up in our own bubble of making, there is great merit in working collaboratively with other people. Getting a fresh eye from a non-glass maker has helped to give me a new perspective on my practice.”
The final look went on display for the first time at the CIFD Autumn/Winter 2021 runway show. It was well received and was subsequently picked up by various fashion journalists in high-profile newspapers and magazines.
Maggie Napier’s glass featured in a millinery collaboration with Wendy Louise Designs.
Fellow Irish glass artist, and County Down-based lampworker, Maggie Napier, also had her glass featured in a collaboration with milliner Wendy Louise Designs. Maggie created intricate, bright and beautiful glass elements using her lampworking techniques to adorn the headpiece.
Laura’s works ‘Flop Lights II and III’ have also been selected for the National Glass Centre Glass Prize 2021. These are two illuminated glass sculptures that play on the fragility of glass by making it flexible and highly tactile. The forms are soft, flexible and durable, allowing the audience to touch, squeeze and squish, and challenging their perceived constraints of glass.
Laura’s Flop Lights II & III feature glass and silicone.
The pieces comprise 1,300 individually lampworked glass components that fit, interchangeably, into a waterjet-cut silicone framework. The combination of materials plays with the light from its central body, creating refractive, reflective and fibre optic effects. These artworks are on display now as part of the show, which runs until 13 March 2022. The National Glass Centre is at Liberty Way, Sunderland, SR6 0GL, UK.
All the participants for the fifth edition of the Coburg Prize for Contemporary Glass 2022 have been selected.
Around 400 artists from all over the world applied to take part in this important event for contemporary glass in Europe, which was last held in 2014.
In total, the seven-member jury examined over 700 objects for the exhibition and, in a multi-stage process, selected around 100 works by 89 artists. These will be exhibited from 10 April to 25 September 2022 at the Veste Coburg and in the European Museum for Modern Glass in Rödental, Germany. The winners will be announced on 9 April 2022.
The Coburg Prize for Contemporary Glass 2022 will present a Europe-wide overview of current trends and developments in contemporary glass art. The range of techniques and artistic design is wide. Many works are dedicated to socially relevant issues or address sustainability and climate change.
The nominees are: Giampaolo Amoruso, Galia Amsel, Sahar Baharymoghaddam, Veronika Beckh, Æsa Björk, Juli Bolaños-Durman, Péter Borkovics, Heike Brachlow, Effie Burns, Ned Cantrell, Anna Carlgren, Mathilde Caylou, Keeryong Choi, Katharine Coleman, Vanessa Cutler, Lukas Derow, Maria Bang Espersen, Sally Fawkes, Lena Feldmann, Carrie Fertig, Dominic Fonde, Ulla Forsell, Shige Fujishiro, Giuliano Gaigher, Hannah Gibson, Hartmann Greb, Mathieu Grodet, Wilfried Grootens, Jens Gussek, Iris Haschek, Adam Hejduk, Masami Hirohata, Palo Macho & Jana Hojstričová, Jochen Holz, Petr Hora, Krista Israel, Angela Jarman, Dafna Kaffeman, Saman Kalantari, Micha Karlslund, Morten Klitgaard, Maria Koshenkova, Remigijus Kriukas, Marzena Krzeminska Baluch, Zuzana Kubelková, Juliette Leperlier, James Lethbridge, Susan Liebold, Kristína Ligačová, Alison Lowry, Joanna Manousis, Markus Marschmann, James Maskrey, Gayle Matthias, Melanie Möglich, Sadhbh Mowlds, Jan Mytny, Tracy Nicholls, Fredrik Nielsen, Jagoda Nowak-Bieganowska, Stig Persson, Anne Petters, Vendulka Prchalová, Cornelius Réer, Colin Reid, Gerhard Ribka, Sebastian Richter, Anne-Lise Riond Sibony, Judith Röder, Susanne Roewer, Torsten Rötzsch, Tiina Sarapu, Cathryn Shilling, Wilken Skurk, Bibi Smit, Petr Stanický, Nancy Sutcliffe, Veronika Suter, Karlyn Sutherland, Ayako Tani, Aline Thibault, Michaela Tkadleček, Kristiina Uslar, Sylvie Vandenhoucke, Aleš Vašíček, Sofia Villamarin, Zac Weinberg, Jinya Zhao, and Jeff Zimmer.
The competition is organised in cooperation with the Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung, Munich, and is funded by Oberfrankenstiftung, the City of Coburg, SÜC Coburg, Denk Keramische Werkstätten and the Barbara Achilles-Stiftung.
Are you struggling to find a unique Christmas gift for a special friend or relative? Why not browse the latest selection of bespoke glasswork on offer from members of the Contemporary Glass Society (CGS)?
Each piece in this exhibition is available to buy direct from the artist, with prices ranging from a very reasonable £50 to £500 – hence the title ‘A is for Affordable Part 2’.
The CGS launched this initiative to help glass artists showcase and sell their beautiful wares in 2020 and it was such a success that it is being repeated in 2021.
Click here and scroll down to browse the selection of gifts and decorative pieces available from 57 glass artists, each of whom has worked with love and care to create them. Click on each image to discover more information about the artwork and how you can purchase it. Don’t wait too long, or it may be gone!
Purchase a piece of gorgeousness to either keep for yourself or to give as a gift. In addition to owning a handmade artwork, you will be helping a small business or artist to carry on being creative.
‘A is for Affordable Part 2’ runs until 6 January 2022.
Glass artists Verity Pulford and Pratibha Mistry are showcasing their newly developed contemporary glass work at The Biscuit Factory gallery in Newcastle, UK.
Verity Pulford and Pratibha Mistry have a joint exhibition of glass on display at The Biscuit Factory.
These artists are inspired by the micro and macro worlds. These starting points have allowed them to create fascinating and thought-provoking work, pushing at the boundaries of what is possible with the material of glass.
Both glass artists draw inspiration from the biological world.
Verity Pulford’s ‘Blue algae bowls’ installation. Photo: Stephen Heaton.
Verity’s collection is most closely influenced by the organic structures of algae, funghi, lichen, moss and ferns.
In contrast, Pratibha’s compositions convey the sinister beauty of detrimental cellular transformations that she has observed in her experiences in laboratory research and microscopy.
View their collections at The Biscuit Factory, 16 Stoddart Street, Newcastle, NE2 1AN.
The exhibition is on now and continues until late January 2022. Find out more here.
Work can be purchased by contacting the gallery sales team on Tel: 0191 261 1103 or Email: art@thebiscuitfactory.com, as the collection is not yet available to purchase online.
The Contemporary Glass Society is also running a series of exhibitions in conjunction with The Biscuit Factory, featuring a changing line-up of CGS members. See the current batch of featured artists and artworks here.
Main image: Pratibha Mistry’s pate de verre piece, ‘Melanoma infiltration’, (2020) is on show at The Biscuit Factory. Photo: Pratibha Mistry.
The revered Corning Museum of Glass in the USA is inviting submissions to be considered for inclusion in the next edition of the respected New Glass Review 42.
The museum states: “We have absolutely missed seeing your work over the last year. Diving into your innovations in form, technique, concept, and more through the process of New Glass Review is the highlight of our year and the energy that fuels our work. There is nothing more thrilling than seeing the work of contemporary glassmakers and knowing that each day, each month, each year holds new discoveries and new commentaries.”
New Glass Review presents an international survey of contemporary glass. New Glass Review 42 is open for works made in the period January 2020 and January 2022. Submissions should use glass, and can also be video works in which glass plays a fundamental role, as well as video documentation of performances using glass. Selected entries will be published in the autumn of 2022.
Congratulations to several Contemporary Glass Society (CGS) members who have won medals in the Sixth Chinese Craft Glass Competition and Exhibition.
Owing to COVID-19 restrictions in China, this year’s awards ceremony has had to be cancelled and international artists were not required to send their artworks to the show.
There were two sections to the event, the first being the Sixth Creativity Competition and the second the Fifth Flame Working international glass festival.
The following artists won medals in flameworking category: Stewart Hearn and Kathryn Hearn’s ‘Cicada’ won the Gold Medal; Stewart Hearn’s ‘Glacial Erratic’ won the Silver Medal, and CGS member Emma Goring’s ‘Sort Sol Spring’ black vessel won the Bronze Medal.
Winners of Excellence Work medals were CGS member Calum Dawes for ‘Spirit Vessel Pair’; Vanessa Cutler for ‘P2 – Partial Piercings’; CGS member Deborah Timperley, for ‘Pushed Back 2’; Vanessa Cutler for both ‘Chitter Chatter’ and ‘Gender’, plus Tim Spurchise for ‘Watermelon Fish’ and ‘Sea Bear’.
Winners of Selected Work medals were: Tim Spurchise, for ‘Sea Bear’, ‘Sawfish’, ‘Hydra Nautilus’, ‘Pig Fish’, ‘Lung Fish’ and ‘Plague Doctor’; Deborah Timperley, for ‘Transition’, ‘Soft box’, ‘Contained dialogue’, ‘Surface barrier 2’ and ‘Barred within’; Vanessa Cutler, for ‘Mechanics’, ‘Untitled’ and ‘Chaos’; Rita Neumann, for ‘In use’, ‘The blue rag’ and ‘Worn floor cloth’; Maria Koshenkova, for ‘Norwegian Wood’; Frederik Rombach, for ‘Overall’, ‘CB’, ‘ls’ and ‘Emojipil’; Livvy Fink, for ‘Untitled II’; Maria Bacho, for ‘Liquid Wood II Top Glass’; Aoife Soden, for ‘Cortisol Level-Fight or Flight’; Soden, for ‘Healing Hands’; CGS member Silvia Zimerman, for ‘Fabrics’ and ‘Flying and falling napkins’; Hale Feriha Hendekcigil, for ‘Lost Blue’; Boris Shpeizman, for ‘Pink M16’ and ‘Tears’; Chuchen Song, for ‘Immersing’, ‘Untitled’, ‘Invisible Boundary #2’, ‘Internal/External’ and ‘The Silent Night #3’; Hale, for ‘A thousand eyes’, Ana Laura Quintana, for ‘Reticulate petals’; Feriha, for ‘The Mother’; Maria Bacho, for ‘Diamor’, plus CGS member Juliette Leperlier, for ‘Phloème VIII’.
Boris Shpeizman’s ‘Ice Age Group’.
The artists listed below won medals in the Sixth Creativity Competition:
These artists all won Bronze medals: Boris Shpeizman, for ‘Ice Age Group’ and ‘Glass Armor’; Teresa Apud, for ‘Nuevo Comienzo’; CGS member Yoshico Okada, for ‘Clair de lune (I)’; CGS member Carole Gray, for ‘Patchwork 1’, plus Tingting Zhao, for ‘Four Treasures of the Study’.
‘Clair de lune (I)’ by Yoshico Okada.
The Excellence Work medal winners were: Teresa Apud, for ‘Reencuentro’ and ‘Nosotras’; Chuchen Song, for ‘Internal/External’; Calum Dawes, for ‘Spirit Vessel 1’, and Boris Shpeizman, for ‘Ice Age Grasshopper’.
Selected Work medal winners were: Livvy Fink, for ‘Untitled I’; Calum Dawes, for ‘Spirit Vessel 2’; Boris Shpeizman, for ‘Lollipop Man’ and ‘Thompson’; Juliette Leperlier, for ‘Phloème II’ and ‘Phloème IV’; CGS member Yoshico Okada, for ‘Shifting memories IV’ and ‘Distance Between’; Emma Goring, for ‘Sort Sol-Spring’; Hale Feriha Hendekcigil, for ‘Touch’ and ‘Maud Lewis’; Aoife Soden, for ‘Going Under (Dry Drowning)’; Silvia Zimerman, for ‘Circle of Life’ and ‘Folded Shirts’; plus CGS member Carole Gray, for ‘Corona (Chaos)’.
Main feature image: ‘Cicada’ (2021), by Stewart Hearn and Kathryn Hearn, which won the Gold Medal.
Fifty artists from across Europe and the UK will be exhibiting as part of the European Prize for Applied Arts from 12 December 2021 until 6 March 2022.
This major exhibition brings together some of the finest makers on the contemporary applied arts scene and will be held at the Anciens Abattoirs in Mons, Belgium.
This fifth edition will showcase around one hundred unique pieces by 50 artists from 16 different European countries.
Two prize-winners will each be awarded €3,500, thanks to the support of the World Craft Council Europe and the Ministry of Culture of the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles.
The exhibition showcases some of the finest work produced in Europe, marrying a range of perfectly mastered techniques with high aesthetic standards. Glass, ceramics, metal, wood, paper crafts and contemporary jewellery are all represented.
These makers are going beyond the traditional and thinking ‘outside the box’. New materials and techniques are mixed with traditional approaches to create art forms that are both modern and ancient, codified and reactionary.
Evelyne Gilmont has designed the exhibition to be sober, practical, and unpretentious. The display stands and decoration are inspired by construction sites, with OSB beams, stencils and road sign blue, to suggest the idea of Work In Progress, evolution, modification, improvement and transmission.
The pandemic has reminded us of the importance of reconnecting with creativity and hand-made objects, so ‘Transmission’ is the theme of the exhibition catalogue.
The 50 artists exhibiting around 100 artworks in total are: Studio Biskt (BE), Barbara Amstutz (CH), Isa Andersson (SE), Julie Barbeau (FR), BedrossianServaes (BE), Sylvia Bellia (DE), Garcia Besteiro (ES), Marian Bijlenga (NL), Pernille Braun (DK), Diana Butucariu (SE), Isabel Flores et Almudena Fernández Fariña (ES), Rachael Colley (UK), Giorgi Danibegashvili (GE), Kristina Daukintyte Aas (NO), Annemie De Corte (BE), Mathieu Ducournau (FR), Sam Tho Duong (DE), Mieke Everaet (BE), Veronika Fabian (UK), Ruth Gilmour (DK), Tuva Gonsholt (NO), Naama Haneman (UK), Pierce Healy (IE), Jennifer Hickey (IE), Kari Hjertholm (NO), Esmé Hofman (NL), Karen Lise Krabbe (DK), Kim Minhee (UK), Lai Ho (UK), Beate Leonards (DE), James Lethbridge (BE), Christoph Leuner (DE), Louise Limontas (BE), Christof Lungwitz (DE), Hanna Miadzvedzeva (AL), Fredrik Nielsen (SE), Michèle Oberdieck (UK), Olle Olls (SE), Inni Pärnänen (FI), Ruudt Peters (NL), Anne Petters (UK), Arpad Pulai (RS), Loukia Richards (GR), Martha Samyn (BE), Christophe Straube (DE), Edu Tarin (DE), Marie-Anne Thieffry (FR), Clem Vanhee (BE), Christoph Weisshaar (DE), Lotte Westphael (DK).
Exhibition details: The European Prize for Applied Arts 2021 runs from 12 December 2021 to 6 March 2022 at the Grande Halle, Les Anciens Abattoirs, 17/02, rue de la Trouille, 7000 Mons, Belgium.
Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday, 12.00-18.00. Closed 25.12.2021 and 01.01.2022. Further information from the organisers BeCraft via: info@becraft.org, www.becraft.org
Image: ‘VIP’, by Isa Andersson (2018), is made from free-blown glass with steel (130 x 30 x 120cm). Photo: F. Löfgren.
Would you like to create a showstopper exhibition piece in glass to be shown as the centrepiece of an established outdoor show in Belgium? If so, read on, as the deadline for submission proposals is soon.
For several years, Tone Aanderaa and Ignace Clarysse have organised the international art exhibition ‘The Enchanted Garden’, situated in a landscaped nature garden full of water features, located between Brussels and Liège in Belgium.
They are inviting glass artists to submit ideas for a glass centrepiece to be shown in the garden in the summer of 2022, to mark the International Year of Glass.
The theme for the piece is ‘Light, Transparency, Reflection, Colour… Glass’. The work can be made from all glass or combine different materials, preferably with a proportion of glass. It must be suitable as a garden sculpture, but the buyer must also be able to install it indoors if they wish. The dimensions of the work are not important, but it must be easy for the buyer to transport.
Because of the significance of the centrepiece to the exhibition, the sculpture should command a high price. In addition, the work should be attractive to visitors and not provoke negative comments. A plinth can be provided if needed.
This artwork will be the focal point of the exhibition and the main artwork presented on all the organisers’ websites, publications, marketing, mailings and press releases. This will ensure that the winning artist and artwork will be in the spotlight for the whole season.
Many Belgian gallery and sculpture garden owners visit the exhibition and invite displaying artists to take part in their exhibitions.
In addition to being featured on the Enchanted Garden websites and social channels, the winner will be publicised on many relevant external websites focusing on events and art news, such as Evensi, QueFaire, UitInVlaaanderen, and DagjeWeg, as well as via email marketing campaigns to national and international journalists, and around 50,000 interested people.
The organisers anticipate many new opportunities for the artist from taking part in this exhibition.
The Enchanted Garden exhibition will take place from Friday 24 June to Sunday 25 September 2022. It will be open every Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 13:00 to 20:00.
Proposals for the artwork must be submitted by Monday 13 December 2021.
Find out more via the website www.the-enchanted-garden.info, emails: info@ignace-clarysse.com or: artsanctuary@live.com, or Tel: +32 (0) 493 628 540.
Submissions must be made via email to either email address listed above.
The Enchanted Garden exhibition, Rue du Tilleul 22, 1370 Saint-Jean-Geest (Jodoigne), Belgium.
Image: The layout of the garden where The Enchanted Garden exhibition is held.
Do you have a new creative business? Do you need help kick-starting your design practice? Applications are invited now for early-stage creative businesses to take part in the One Year In 2022 show, to be held as part of the long-established New Designers exhibition.
The UK graduate design event, New Designers, has been running for 37 years and showcases the most exciting, fresh design talent each year.
The One Year In part of the exhibition provides new businesses with a pre-show mentorship programme to help businesses get market-ready to exhibit at the event.
One Year In takes place across two weeks between June and July 2022 at the Business Design Centre in Islington, London, UK. Each week focuses on a different set of design disciplines, with glass in the first week (29 June-2 July 2022). You do not need to have exhibited at New Designers to be considered for One Year In.
Those who are selected to take part will receive guidance and help to make their businesses a success, including:
A dedicated curator to give advice and direction.
A preparation day, providing hints and tips on exhibiting before the event.
Talks and webinars providing vital skills for entering the commercial world.
PR opportunities, bringing exposure across the New Designers website and social channels.
To apply, click here to complete the application form and email your supporting images.
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