Re-make/Re-model

14 October 2010 – 27 February 2011

Talk: 5pm & Preview: 6-8pm, Wednesday 13 October

We are more aware today, than at any other time, of our impact on the environment. With Christmas approaching - the most poignant reminder of our disposable culture, fuelled by consumerism - this exhibition takes a look at artists’ work and projects that reuse and transform materials, that reconfigure or alter pre-existing objects. In some cases this touches upon the actual recycling of materials, in others it is the making of new work that is more than the sum of its parts.

Re-make/Re-model includes; milk bottles, drinks cans and bottles, smashed car windscreens, TVs and food cans, all of which have been recycled and given a new life and a new use. As the title implies this exhibition is also a call to action: to re-make or re-model. Artists include: Darren Banks, Ruth Claxton, Nick Crowe & Ian Rawlinson, Jacob Dahlgren, Steven Emmanuel, Leo Fitzmaurice, Lothar Goetz, Christian Gräser, Lucy Harvey, Charlotte Hughes-Martin, Amikam Toren.

Opening Hours: Monday to Sunday, 10am – 5pm

National Glass Centre, Liberty Way, Sunderland, SR6 0GL

Tel: 0191 515 5555
Email: info@nationalglasscentre.com
Website: www.nationalglasscentre.com

6 July 2010 to 17 April 2011

Charlotte Hughes-Martin solo exhibition.

Venue: Craft & Design Gallery, Manchester Art Gallery, Mosley Street, Manchester, M2 3JL

Opening Hours: Tuesday to Sunday, 10am - 5pm.

Tel: 0161 235 8824
Email: j.boston@manchester.gov.uk
Website: www.manchestergalleries.org.uk

21 August 2010 – 27 February 2011

Spectacular show of contemporary glass furniture and furnishings, including works by Frank Hudson, Danny Lane, Katy Holford, Stuart Garfoot and Vanessa Cutler, Colin Reid, Robyn Smith, Dot Hill, Joanna Manousis, Victoria Scholes, Greenapple and Italian furniture company FIAM.

Normal Opening Hours: Tuesday to Sunday, 12pm – 4pm (closed Bank Holiday Mondays)

Festival of Glass Opening Hours (27 – 30 August): Tuesday to Sunday, 10am – 5pm

Venue: Broadfield House Glass Museum, Compton Drive, Kingswinford, DY6 9NS

Tel: 01384 812745
Website: www.ifg.org.uk & www.glassmuseum.org.uk

19 November 2010 to 6 March 2011

Mixed media exhibition featuring glass by 'Juo Ltd.’ (Jessamy Kelly & Joanne Mitchell).

Venue: The Biscuit Factory, 16 Stoddart Street, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE2 1AN

Tel: 0191 261 1103
Email: art@thebiscuitfactory.com
Website: www.thebiscuitfactory.com

15 January to 24 April 2011

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Caithness Glass, this exhibition highlights the work of Domhnall O’Broin (the company’s first designer). His designs and colour ranges were inspired by the local landscape of the remote north of Scotland. 

The exhibition also features Caithness Glass ranges by later designers, including Colin Terris, Helen MacDonald, Alastair MacIntosh and Gordon Hendry.  

Venue: Broadfield House Glass Museum, Compton Drive, Kingswinford, DY6 9NS

Tel: 01384 812 749
Email: glass.museum@dudley.gov.uk
Website. www.glassmuseum.org.uk

20 January to 26 February 2011

Cohesion Glassmakers Network mixed media exhibition, featuring glass artists Sarah Blood & Mike Davis.

Venue: Creative Cohesion Studios & Gallery, 20-21 Nile Street, Sunniside, Sunderland, SR1 3EY

Tel: 0191 565 5331
Email: creativecohesion@btconnect.com
Website: www.cohesionglassnetwork.org

22 January to 19 March 2011

Crafts Council touring glass exhibition. Breath Taking explores the poetry, processes and products of contemporary glass blowing. Featuring glass by Dominic Cooney, Anna Dickinson, ‘El Ultimo Grito’ (Roberto Feo & Rosario Hurtado), Stewart Hearn, Carrie Fertig, Shelley James, Joanna Manousis, James Maskrey, Carl Nordbruch, Jessica Lloyd-Jones, Stephen Procter, Layne Rowe, Elaine Sheldon, Sam Sweet, Louis Thompson, Ben Walters, Richard Wheater, Christopher Williams, Kate Williams, Emma Woffenden & Rachael Woodman.

Venue: Bilston Craft Gallery & Library, Mount Pleasant, Bilston, WV14 7LU

Tel: 01902 552 507 & 020 7806 2549
Emails: bilstoncraftgallery@wolverhampton.gov.uk & media@craftscouncil.org.uk
Websites: www.wolverhamptonart.org.uk/bilston & www.craftscouncil.org.uk/collection-and-exhibitions

2 to 26 February 2011

Fiaz Elson solo exhibition.

Fiaz studied glass at Staffordshire University and then went on to be Senior Assistant to Colin Reid, a senior glass artist who specialises in the kiln form process. Fiaz uses curves, angles, light, space and colour to create powerful minimal sculptures. Each piece has a relationship with the interior and exterior structure, bending, distorting and refracting light, creating a dynamic energy between colour and form.

Venue: The Scottish Gallery, 16 Dundas Street, Edinburgh, EH3 6HZ

Tel: 0131 558 1200
Email: mail@scottish-gallery.co.uk
Website: www.scottish-gallery.co.uk

5 February to 3 April 2011

Mixed media touring exhibition featuring work by glass artists Kirsteen Aubrey, Vanessa Cutler, Jessamy Kelly, Inge Panneels, Sylvie Vandenhoucke & Cate Watkinson.

Over the last 18 months, 32 disparate makers from various backgrounds in craft, art and design, have formed 18 cross-disciplinary partnerships (or ‘pairings’) and in the process have had to engage with new technologies and techniques that are unfamiliar and sometimes unlikely. These marriages of materials, practices and creative identities has given birth to work and ideas that have redefined the nature of the object and of craft.

This exhibition aims to display and interpret the processes and document the ‘conversations’, as sketches, tests and experiments, as well as finished outcomes; to show intriguing new objects that challenge our notions of creative identity and ownership; and to be a starting point and site for the second phase of activity, where the exhibition itself becomes a discussion between all the makers, and between the makers and the audience.

Venue: Howgill Gallery, Farfield Mill, Garsdale Road, Sedbergh, Cumbria, LA10 5LW

Tel: 01539 621 958
Email: admin@farfieldmill.org
Website: www.farfieldmill.org/index.php?id=49

18 February to 1 April 2011

Rachel Welford solo exhibition of architectural glass & works on paper. 'In a Different Light' is set against the backdrop of the Woodend gallery’s conservatory windows. This stunning glass artwork exhibition responds to the changing quality of natural light and the landscape beyond the gallery.

Venue: Coastival Festival Exhibition, Woodend Arts & Craft Gallery, Woodend Creative Industries Centre, The Crescent, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, YO11 2PW

Tel: 01723 384 500.
Email: sam.tomkins@woodendcreative.co.uk
Websites: www.woodendcreative.co.uk & www.coastival.com

11 February to 4 September 2011

Mixed media exhibition featuring work by glass artists ‘Sanders & Wallace Glassmakers’ (Andrew Sanders & David Wallace) & Amanda Simmons.

Venue: New Ashgate Gallery, Wagon Yard, Farnham, Surrey , GU9 7PS

Tel: 01252 713 208
Email: gallery@newashgate.org.uk
Website. www.newashgate.org.uk

12 March to 4 September 2011

The exhibition features work by contemporary glass artists Martin Andrews, Ruth Dresman, Julie Fountain, Charlotte Hughes-Martin, Elin Isaksson, Allister Malcolm, Lisa MacFarlane, Helen Millard, Graham Muir, Patricia Niemann, Amanda Notarianni & Lauren Taylor.

Venue: Broadfield House Glass Museum, Compton Drive, Kingswinford, DY6 9NS

Tel: 01384 812 749
Email: glass.museum@dudley.gov.uk
Website. www.glassmuseum.org.uk

1 to 30 April 2011

Richard “Will” Shakspeare solo exhibition.

Venue: Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Riverside Mill, Bovey Tracey, Devon, TQ13 9AF

Tel: 01626 832 223.
Email: devonguild@crafts.org.uk
Website: www.crafts.org.uk & www.shakspeareglass.co.uk

4 to 31 May 2011

Alison McConachie solo exhibition.

Venue: The Scottish Gallery, 16 Dundas Street, Edinburgh, EH3 6HZ

Tel: 0131 558 1200
Email: mail@scottish-gallery.co.uk
Website: www.scottish-gallery.co.uk

4 May to 3 June 2011

Guild Of Glass Engravers (Northern Branch) exhibition. Featuring engraved glass by James Denison-Pender.

Venue: York Minster, York, YO1 7HH

Tel: 020 8446 4050
Email: gge@glassengravers1.plus.com
Website: www.gge.org.uk

18 June to 18 July 2011

Naomi Singer solo exhibition. The sea, coastline and plants around her home in Cornwall, and her parent’s house in Dorset heavily influence Naomi’s work. Many of the images used in her pieces are off plants specially grown for her work. Naomi uses a mixture of modern and traditional techniques to create her final pieces.

Venue: Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Riverside Mill, Bovey Tracey, Devon, TQ13 9AF

Tel: 01626 832 223.
Email: devonguild@crafts.org.uk
Website: www.crafts.org.uk

21 to 24 July 2011

Every July over 4 days, 25,000 visitors flock to see over 400 artists, craftsmen, performers, musicians, teachers and lecturers come together in the grounds of Waterperry House (Oxfordshire) to demonstrate their skills and love of art.

Visitors can observe artists creating sculpture, jewellery, textiles, ceramics and more. They can listen to live music, watch performing arts from around the world, hear lecturers expound on their chosen subject and
learn from the teachers in the hugely popular practical classes.

Artists are housed in marquees by discipline: painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, ceramics, calligraphy, illustration, glass, metalwork, jewellery, nature in art, textiles, woodwork, and for the second year, international art. As the festival champions art in many disciplines and forms, visitors can see everything from the traditional to the contemporary.

Charges:

Adults £15 (Booked online £14.00)
Senior citizens £12 (Booked online £11.00)
Concessions £8 (Booked online £7.00)
Child (9-17 years) £5 (Booked online £4.00)
Under-9s Free

Family and season tickets available.

Car parking free.

Party rates for pre-booked minibuses and a limited number of
coaches by arrangement – contact the office (020 7381 3192) in advance.

Entry: 10am - 5:30pm (Daily)

Venue: Address: Waterperry House, Near Wheatley, Oxford, OX33 1JZ

Tel: 020 7381 3192

Website: www.artinaction.org.uk

5 August to 3 September 2011

Colin Reid solo exhibition.

Colin Reid studied at St Martins College of Art and Stourbridge School of Art and trained as a scientific glassblower. He is an acknowledged master of cast glass as an artistic medium and has work represented in over 40 international public collections.

Venue: The Scottish Gallery, 16 Dundas Street, Edinburgh, EH3 6HZ

Tel: 0131 558 1200
Email: mail@scottish-gallery.co.uk
Website: www.scottish-gallery.co.uk

27 August to 19 September 2011

Roberta Ayles solo exhibition. Roberta makes stained glass windows by traditional methods, fused glass panels for windows and lighting, and slumped-glass bowls and candleholders.

Venue: Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Riverside Mill, Bovey Tracey, Devon, TQ13 9AF

Tel: 01626 832 223.
Email: devonguild@crafts.org.uk
Website: www.crafts.org.uk

17 September 2011 to 19 February 2012

Exhibition showcasing the work of contemporary glass artists Sarah Blood, Keith Brocklehurst, Sharon Foley & Richard Wheater.

Light brings an added dimension to artworks and this exhibition highlights the work of six artists who use neon to create artworks in very different styles. 

Venue: Broadfield House Glass Museum, Compton Drive, Kingswinford, DY6 9NS

Tel: 01384 812 749
Email: glass.museum@dudley.gov.uk
Website. www.glassmuseum.org.uk

5 to 29 October 2011

Katharine Coleman (M.B.E.) solo exhibition.

Venue: The Scottish Gallery, 16 Dundas Street, Edinburgh, EH3 6HZ

Tel: 0131 558 1200
Email: mail@scottish-gallery.co.uk
Website: www.scottish-gallery.co.uk

21 November 2010 to 3 July 2011

Brian Clarke Solo Exhibition.

Venue: Vitro Musée Romont, Musée Suisse Du Vitrail & De Arts Du Verre, Romont, Switzerland

Tel: 00 41 26 652 1095
Email: info@vitromusee.ch
Website: www.vitromusee.ch

18 March to 15 May 2011

Exhibition featuring glass by Alasdair Gordon, Eileen Gordon, Kevin Gordon & Patricia “Rish” Gordon.

Venue: Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Cnr Baylis Street and Morrow Street, Wagga Wagga, NSW 2650, Australia

Tel: 00 61 2 69 26 96 61
Email: gallery@wagga.nsw.gov.au
Website. www.waggaartgallery.org

11 June to 16 July 2011

Heike Brachlow solo exhibition.

Venue: Nadania Idriss New Glass Art & Photography, Linienstraße 154, 10115 Berlin, Germany

Tel: 00 49 30 2787 9386
Email: info@nadaism.de
Website: www.nadaism.de

6 July to 20 August 2011

Richard Whiteley solo exhibition.

Venue: Bullseye Gallery, 300 NW 13th Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97209, USA

Tel: 00 1 503 227 0222
Email: gallery@bullseyeglass.com
Websites. www.bullseyegallery.com

10 to 12 May 2011

The central theme of the GLASSAC conference is:"Innovative technologies in glass art, design and conservation from the 19th to the 21st century – the role of the sciences".

Call for Papers

The deadline for the Call for Papers for the 3rd GLASSAC Conference will close on 31st October 2010.

Tel: Sabrina Rota - +49 (0) 9342 / 9221-710
Email:info@glassac.eu, registration@glassac.eu & info@izkk.de
Website: www.glassac.eu

Philip Eglin and Tessa Clegg, both Jerwood Applied Arts prizewinners, will be orchestrating, in cooperation with Carl Nordbruch, an experimental hot glass blowing course. The Master Class will concentrate on idea development using as many hot glass techniques - particularly mould-blowing – as possible.

24 August – 1 September: ‘The Pleasures And Difficulties Of Choice’

The Master Class, led by Ivana Šrámková, will focus on creating sculptures, made in cast glass in combination with natural and man-made found objects.

6 – 14 September: ‘Out Of Thin Air’

The main direction of Michael Rogers’ masterclass will be the development of ideas with an emphasis on the individual’s inclinations and intuitive choices. Technically the focus will be on a combination of cast and blown glass compositions, assembled hot.

6 – 14 September: ‘Painting On Glass: Developing A Personal Iconography'

In this class, lead by Cappy Thompson, students will paint flat glass and small vessel forms, applying vitreous enamels to glass using the traditional painting technique of “grisaille” or gray-tonal painting as a foundation for developing and expressing the student’s own visual vocabulary.

Tel: 01593 721 229
Email: info@northlandsglass.com
Website: www.northlandsglass.com

North Lands Creative Glass,
Quatre Bras,
Lybster,
Caithness,
KW3 6BN,
Scotland

Have a go at the ancient art of glassmaking - 'A TRULY INSPIRATIONAL EXPERIENCE'.

On this glass blowing course you will learn all the basic skills of glassmaking in order to make your own paperweight with a professional glassblower and learn the magical way glass is blown and sculpted.

The course is great if you are a complete beginner as no previous experience is necessary as they will start you off from scratch and by the end of the session you will have learnt all the basic techniques in order to make your very own paperweight.

During the course you will be introduced to techniques such as:

• Gathering Glass From The Furnace
• Shaping And Tooling The Molten Glass
• Applying Colour
• Finishing The Base Experience Blowing Glass Using A Blowing Iron

Tuition is offered during the glass blowing course for a maximum of 4 people at a time (so book early).

You will be able to take home your own piece of art after it has cooled down overnight (or they can post to you) which we can be signed and dated for you.

Charges: £75 per person. If you book a group of four people it is £65 each.

Glassblowing Courses make a fantastic gift! Gift vouchers are available
to buy online, or you can telephone 01225 428146/319606

Venue: Glass blowing courses take place on Saturday mornings at the Theatre of Glass, Walcot Street in the centre of Bath and run for 3 hours (from 9.30am to 12.30pm)

Bookings: Please telephone Hilary on 01225 428146 for further information and bookings.