Selected for the Homo Faber Guide
September 2022
I'm excited to let you know that I have been selected for the international Homo Faber Guide. Homo Faber is an international cultural movement celebrating craftsmanship and championing artisans worldwide, and is part of the Michelangelo Foundation.
Work Selected for the British Glass Biennale
26th August - 1st October 2022
I'm very excited to announce that my piece, 'Void', has been selected for exhibition in the British Glass Biennale, held at the Ruskin Glass Centre, Stourbridge. The British Glass Biennale is a highlight of the glass calendar and hailed as “the foremost juried exhibition of excellence in contemporary glass” for artists, designers and craftspeople working in the UK and British artists working abroad.
Winner of the Bullseye Glass Bronze Award 2022
The Bellvue Arts Museum, Washington State, USA - January- 29th May. Pittsburgh Glass Centre, 7th October 2022 - 24th Ja2023 - Houston Center for Contemporary Craft - Spring 2023.
am showing a piece in the selected Bullseye Glass Projects exhibition Tg: Transitions in Kiln-Glass. This exhibition features the best of contemporary kiln-glass art, design, and architecture, selected through a juried competition with applicants from around the globe. Within this show my piece, 'In the Pink', was awarded the exhibitions Bronze award. Tg refers to the glass transition temperature that lies near the center of the region in which the material shifts between behaving like a solid and behaving like a liquid. This metamorphosis embodies the ethos of kiln-glass, the transformation that occurs when glass softens and yields to the fierce heat of the kiln. The exhibition is currently showing at the Bellevue Arts Museum, Washington State, USA, until 29th May and then touring at the following venues. - Pittsburgh Glass Centre, 7th October 2022 - 24th January 2023 - Houston Center for Contemporary Craft - Spring 2023.
Selected for The Horbowy International Glass Competition in Poland
29/03/2023
I am delighted to say that my optical glass sculptures entitled, ‘Photopic’, has been selected for second stage of The Horbowy International Glass Competition. This piece will be exhibited in Poland from 30th June this year, where it will be judged by a seven-member jury of glass designers, theoreticians and educators from Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine, and the United States Exhibition Dates: 30th June 2023 - The Giant Mountains Museum (Muzeum Karkonoskie) in Jelenia Góra September 2023 – December - the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art & Design, Wrocław. Currently 52 works of glass art from around the world. Have been selected to go onto the second stage where they will be presented to the public in two competition exhibitions in 2023. 106 artists applied in the first edition of the Competition. 52 participants from 13 countries qualified for the second stage of the Competition. The laureates of the Horbowy International Glass Competition will be announced by the Jury at the opening of the first exhibition at the Giant Mountains Museum in Jelenia Góra on the 30th of June 2023. Once complete, the show then tours to another venue in Poland from September onwards.
Masterclasses for 2024!
29th June -12th July 2024
I'm excited to have been invited to teach a 14 day Masterglass on 'Spatial Images in Glass'. In this course we experiment with different techniques of image making in and on glass in order to create spatial effects together with personal narratives. Throughout the course we experiment with image layers and motif overlays within our glass castings, exploring optical and ornamental effects, color, opacity and transparency.
Selected for the British Glass Biennale 2024!
The British Glass Biennale opens 23 August and closes 28 September 2024
I am delighted to have been selected for the 2024 British Glass Biennale. The British Glass Biennale is the foremost juried exhibition of excellence in contemporary glass by artists, designers and craftspeople working in the UK and British Artists working abroad. It is the flagship exhibition within the International Festival of Glass.
Having run my studio for over twenty years, I have learnt to recycle and reuse all materials to keep costs down and work sustainably.
Currently, I use my scrap glass, for fused glass workshops. If I have a large amount of scrap colour, I use a recycling kiln-melt process, enabling me to meltdown the off-cuts in a crucible, to produce glass blocks to cast with.
When using clay, I always recycle it, and the packaging I use is recycled or shredded cardboard, with recyclable bubble-wrap.