Archives: Online Exhibitions

New Online Exhibition and reviews

“Light and Dark” Launch – 6th January, 2025

CALL FOR GLASS ARTISTS for next CGS Online Selling Exhibition!

Now is your chance to enter our next exciting online CGS glass gallery exhibition! As with all our shows, it is available to glass artists from around the world.

The only criteria is that you must be a CGS Member. It’s super quick and easy to sign up!  JOIN TODAY!!

Head over to your MYCGS

Upload all your details and 1 image

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Contact info@cgs.org.uk if you need help or have any questions

 

“Light and Dark”

Launch – 2nd December

Deadline – 20th December

Live – 6th January, 2025

Day and night, black and white, bold contrasts made by shadows in stark sunlight – all are examples of light and dark. Darkness, is the direct opposite of lightness, is defined as a lack of illumination, an absence of visible light, or a surface that absorbs light, such as black. It is estimated that 99% of our universe is hidden in the dark – and as light travels at a finite speed, the further you look into the universe the further one looks back in time. Show us your contrasts, your extremes, even your explorations into space – boldly go where no one has gone before!

“It’s In the Word” Launch 4th Nov 2024 2024

CALL FOR GLASS ARTISTS for next CGS Online Selling Exhibition!

Now is your chance to enter our next exciting online CGS glass gallery exhibition! As with all our shows, it is available to glass artists from around the world.

The only criteria is that you must be a CGS Member. It’s super quick and easy to sign up!  JOIN TODAY!!

Head over to your MYCGS

Upload all your details and 1 image

NEED HELP WITH IMAGE UPLOAD? ADVICE HERE!!

Contact info@cgs.org.uk if you need help or have any questions

 

“It’s In the Word”

Launch submissions – 7th Oct

Deadline – 25th Oct

Live – 4th Nov 2024 – 6th Jan, 2025

Words, words, words! All our lives we use words to express ourselves, to tell stories, to make deals, in love and in anger. We lie, we joke, we make promises and even thump our political soapbox. How do you use words in your work? Do you start with words in a title and take inspiration from them or actually write within your glass? Use words to tell us about it.

“Patterns: Composition and Design” Launch – 2nd September 2024

CALL FOR GLASS ARTISTS for next CGS Online Selling Exhibition!

Now is your chance to enter our next exciting online CGS glass gallery exhibition! As with all our shows, it is available to glass artists from around the world.

The only criteria is that you must be a CGS Member. It’s super quick and easy to sign up!  JOIN TODAY!!

Head over to your MYCGS

Upload all your details and 1 image

NEED HELP WITH IMAGE UPLOAD? ADVICE HERE!!

Contact info@cgs.org.uk if you need help or have any questions

 

“Patterns: Composition and Design”

Launch – 5th August

Deadline – 23rd August

Live – 2nd September 4th November

A pattern is an arrangement of lines or shapes, especially a design in which the same shape is repeated at regular intervals over a surface. Patterns exist all around us. We can find a pattern in the trees, in passing cars, ice crystals, in our thought processes or in our clothes. A pattern is also an arithmetic sequence, regularity in the world, in human-made design or in abstract ideas. What does pattern mean to you? How do you express it in your work? Let us see your compositions!

“Cultural Traditions.” Launch – 8th July 2024

Laura Rivolta Title:El Ajuar de LLullaillaco

“Cultural Traditions.”

8th July – 2nd September

Theme:

Traditions develop around religion, holidays, food, dance, clothing, language, music, crafts and pastimes, or anything else important to your cultural background. Traditions help form the structure and foundation of our families and our society.

CGS asked member glass artists to show us what is important to them and what their legends are.

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If you have any questions about this show, submissions, or future membership and taking part in show,s please email info@cgs.org.uk

“Cycles of Life”  Launched on 6th May 2024

From the smallest microbe to the biggest animal on earth – the Antarctic blue whale – we all experience the cycle of life from birth Preview Changes (opens in a new tab)through to death.  Shakespeare wrote about the 7 ages of man – the infant, the schoolboy, the lover, the soldier, the justice, the pantaloon and old age.

The rhythm of life has a powerful beat so we invited CGS members and glass artists to show us their journey through the natural world. Even their glass pieces go through a cycle of creation!

Contemporary Glass Society (CGS) Members took up the invitation – and here we show you what they produced!

Most work is for sale – please contact the artists directly to make a purchase.

If you need any help or have any questions about the show or taking part, PLEASE EMAIL info@cgs.org.uk

 

“Making Marks” Exhibition – an invitation from CGS to the Guild of Glass Engravers

The Contemporary Glass Society invited members of the Guild of Glass Engravers to take part in an online selected exhibition to run from 4th March 2024. 

The show, entitled “Making Marks” was an opportunity to highlight the amazing skills required to create the beauty of engraved glass.This is part of CGS’s annual programme of 2 month long online exhibitions which are also selling exhibitions.  CGS was delighted to have the opportunity to work with the Guild of Glass Engravers on this show. Work was selected by Trustees of both organisations and by our joint Patron, Mark Holford.  Exhibition opening                   4th MarchMeet the Makers event            24th April There will be a Zoom online “Meet the Maker” event on 24th April where participants in the show will be invited to talk briefly about their work and their piece in particular. It is an opportunity for GGE members to highlight their work and explain the fascinating details of engraving techniques.

To find out more about the Guild of Glass Engravers visit www.gge.org.uk

 

 

“Spring Awaits….” Launched on 17th January 2024

A new year is upon us and we can start to look forward to those longer days, light breezes and sunny days of Spring. Spring – a word that conjures up gambolling lambs, crocuses breaking through the earth, trees dressed in greenery so bright it almost dazzles the eye and a gentle rise in temperature.

Brightening up the gloomy months of winter, this online glass selling exhibition displays a riot of joyous colour and budding beauty as we celebrate the awakening of new life in 2024.

CGS challenged member glass artists to submit their interpretations of Spring!

Launched on 17th January 2024

53 CGS glass artists exhibit their work. Most work is for sale.

Please contact the artist directly in order to buy work.

 

 

“Wearable Glass”  Launched on 6th November 2023

“Wearable Glass”

Earrings, bracelets, rings, brooches and necklaces are just a few of the different types of glass that are wearable – they can be made in a range of glass making techniques and can be delicate, elegant, flamboyant, chunky or just crazy!

In this online selling exhibition, we wanted  to see the range of wearable glass that can be produced. This could be practical, everyday wearable pieces or exotic, avant-garde wear for that ultimate fashion statement.

24 Contemporary Glass Society members flaunt their wearable glass in all it’s forms.

Launched on 6th November 2023

 

 

High and Mighty! Live on 4th September 2023

High and Mighty!

Theme: Architecture/structural glass

We live in glass buildings – both commercial and residential. We are surrounded by glass as a building material. Typically it is used as transparent glazing material within the building envelope but we know what else it can be used for!

Windows, wall panels, ceilings, bar fascias, feature sculptures – all can transform their surroundings with colour, light, pattern, texture and design! A building is given personality, gravitas, exuberance or comfort by the inspired use of decorative glass. So in this online exhibition, we invited CGS Members to have the opportunity to flaunt their glorious architectural glass.

17 glass artists took part.

This is a selling show, so please contact the artists directly regarding purchases or commissions.

For show enquiries please email Nicky at info@cgs.org.uk

‘Small But Magnificent’ 

This Contemporary Glass Society online selling exhibition: ‘Small but Magnificent’ was launched on 3rd July 2023.

It features 61 CGS Member Artists who responded to the following:

“As the saying goes, “It’s quality not quantity that counts”. So artworks do not need to be large, dominant or take up space to be of value or to inspire. Smallness can be just as magnificent as a huge piece of sculpture.

This online selling exhibition is looking for little pieces of gorgeousness which are no bigger than 15cms in any aspect. They can be jewellery, beads, bowls, small artworks – really anything that is little, beautiful and inspiring. Flaunt that glass – let it be small but magnificent!”

Most work is for sale!  Please contact the artist directly.