Archives: Online Exhibitions

” Interactive Glass – A first for CGS (to include video and film)”- was launched on 18th of October 2017

We wanted to explore glass that really interacts with a viewer, that inspired by the need to be touched, moved, immersed in, or participated with. The results are marvellous. As our shows goes from strength to strength, this online exhibition seeks to push us into a different realm.

These 55 pieces of work, are not just beautiful to look: they require a physical, optical or practical investigation. They prompt questions. They suggest you look and touch. They suggest a use, maybe within a timeline. They have been designed and made with people in mind, a user, an operator or an inquisitive exploration.

Can an audience or viewer interact with the work? Are there moving parts, wheels, tactile areas? Does the artist use film or photography and installations to interact with an audience?

We also invited 3 International Artists: Aaron Ristau, Bernie Huebner and Simone Crestani to share their work in the exhibition with us.

We are honoured to include them and their amazing collections. A big thank you to them for exhibiting their work in this exhibition.

Thank you, Nicola Schellander and the CGS Board

Action Potential from Jenny Walsh on Vimeo.

‘CELEBRATIONS’- Sponsored by Mark Holford
(Online highlights of the CGS Open Exhibition at the International Festival of Glass, 25th August – 9th September 2017)

Celebrations is the CGS Exhibition at the International Festival of Glass in 2017 as part of our 20th Anniversary.
124 CGS members made a piece of glass that celebrates any event of special importance, however big or small.
All work is for sale and might be the perfect present you are looking for, for that special occasion. Come and find the live exhibition in the Ruskin Centre.

97 of the artists so far, have submitted work to be shown online in this gallery area.

ALL WORK IS FOR SALE!! THOSE THAT ARE SOLD WILL BE MARKED AS SOLD.

If you would like to buy any of the unsold pieces please contact admin@cgs.org.uk

The winners are as follows:

The Prize Winners;
Best in Show
Pippa Stacey,
Runners up
Vic Bamforth
Ruth Shelley
Highly Commended
Nancy Sutcliffe
Ruth Shelley
Linda Banks
Bev Dyson
Sarah L. Brown.
Fiona Fawcett.
Priska Jacobs.
Karlin Rushbrooke.
People’s Prize –
Ruth Shelley for ‘Fabulous’

Prizes sponsored by Mark Holford & Alan J Poole
Best in show £300 sponsored by Alan J Poole
People’s Prize £300 sponsored by Mark Holford
Two runners up £100 each sponsored by Mark Holford

This online highlights show was launched 12th September 2017

This online gallery glass exhibition will explore the theme of being ‘In Relationship’. We asked glass artists what it meant for them.

“Relationship-The way in which two or more people or things are connected, or the state of being connected.”

What does this mean for the artist. Do the pieces of glass have a relationship with each other? Does the artist explore the idea of man and his relationship with others? His surroundings? His own thoughts? Does their work explore the relationship that they have with the material of glass?

From a very large number of entries, 80 CGS members were selected to take part in this exciting and vibrant exhibition. WE also welcomed several new CGS members to this show.

The exhibition was launched on the 4th of August 2017.

Thank you to all those that entered work. Due to the number of entries, we could only put forward a select number of artists.

We asked members if their work was smashed, flattened, crumpled or collapsed?
Or whether their work was a piece of something new by crushing traditional forms or breaking work apart?

We had a wonderful response and for the show, 30 Contemporary Glass Society Members were selected and put forward.

This show is edgey, sharp, and crisp. It shows care but also random acts of glassmaking and the sense of fluidity that glass reveals at times.

Thank you to all those that submitted work.

The show was launched on the 16th of June 2017.

The Contemporary Glass Society supporting glass in Latin America.

The Contemporary Glass Society (UK) is delighted to announce an online exhibition of 44 selected glass artists residing in Latin America.

There was no allotted theme for the show except that artists must be living, studying or residing in Latin America.

The show exhibits a particular strength of character, demonstrating a vibrance and diversity that we have maybe not seen before here in our Gallery area. Many of the pieces are strongly symbolic, with echoes of both a lifeforce and cultural identity. Stories are told. Pieces lie glancing at the viewer, challenging them to take part and discover more.

Artists did not need to be a member of the CGS to submit work for this show, but are welcome to join the Society in the future and take part in all our shows.

The CGS is a charity, registered in the UK. The organisation is funded entirely through members and from donations made by individuals and organisations. We represent glass at an international level and give glass a voice in the media along with forging links between all those involved with glass in an artistic, technological, manufacturing or support capacity.

A huge thank you to our friends and associated across the water and in particular to Dina Priess for her help in sharing our details with artists in Latin America.

This exhibition was launched Mar/Apr 2017

This latest Exhibition is themed around flameworking, and finding inspiration from the following poem:

Short Flames poem by Raul Moreno|

Liquid Fire
Eruption of ash,
Earth bleeds as the mountain vents:
A river of flames.

It was a chance for 10 selected flameworking CGS artists to demonstrate their relationship between the flame, and the molten glass with which they work.

This was a CGS members juried show.

Launched on 24th January 2017

This online gallery show is themed around multiples of objects.

Contrasting collections of items and glass in multiples.

noun: multiple
1.
a number that may be divided by another a certain number of times without a remainder.

noun: motley
1.
an incongruous mixture.

40 Contemporary Glass Society Members were selected from all the submissions we received and we are delighted to launch this varied show.

Launch date of this exhibition: 31st of October..

This show is an online European Glass Show (Open to non-members). There is no allotted theme, just a show of contemporary glass from artists living, working or studying in Europe..

45 artists were selected by the CGS committee and we are delighted to share their work.

Thank you to all those that entered work for the show.

The show was launched on the 28th July 2016.

A CGS online exhibition of Architectural Installations.

20 CGS members were selected, to submit one photo of work selected by the CGS board.

The theme for the show was for work to architectural and of work that had to principally be installed within an interior.

Thank you to all those that submitted work.

The exhibition was launched on the 18th Sept 2016

Glass Art that is also functional!

35 CGS members were selected to take part in this showcase of functional glass.

Thank you to all those that submitted an image of work.

The launch date for this online exhibition: 23rd May 2016.