Delighted to be showing work at the British Glass Biennale 2024

British Glass Biennale

The International Festival of Glass is delighted to announce the artists selected for the 2024 British Glass Biennale exhibition. Over two days an expert panel of judges comprising of Candice-Elena Greer (Chair), Martin Donlin, Nadania Idriss, Tanya Raabe-Webber and Annie Warburton, selected the very best of this year’s entries, all of which achieved a very high standard.

One hundred and twenty-one artists were selected out of 326 applicants to present the most interesting, diverse and outstanding glass art made in the UK in the last two years, a massive 31% increase in applications. The work forms a cutting-edge showcase of contemporary British based glass talent with almost £30,000 worth of awards to be won. Prize winners will be announced at the awards ceremony on 22 August at the Glasshouse, Stourbridge. Winners of the prizes chosen through public votes will be announced at the closing ceremony on 28 September.

Work by established artists and emerging new talent will be on display, including 21 students. The selected artists have been brave and innovative, using a wide range of styles and techniques both traditional and experimental. The festival welcomed a surge in applications from stained glass artists and an increase in student entries.

23 August - 28 September 2024
Tuesday - Saturday
10 - 4pm
Free entry

The Private View and Awards Ceremony will be held by invitation on Thursday 22 August

Location
Glasshouse Arts Centre
Ruskin Glass Centre
Wollaston Road
Amblecote
Stourbridge DY8 4HF

This year I was one of fourteen artists selected to participate in Collect Open at Collect Art Fair in February 2024, located in Somerset House on the banks of the Thames, London

Collect Open is the fair's platform for pioneering craft installations by individual artists and collectives.

The Fourteen artists and collectives were selected by an expert advisory panel for this year's fair. Chosen for the ambitious nature of their projects, they are tasked to either stretch their creative practices or to challenge material, social, political or personal perceptions

I created a site specific installation comprising of three pieces which responded to the architecture of an allocate space within Somerset House.

Bringing together two distinct strands which have historically defined the medium of flame worked glass, her work unites the aesthetics of both found objects (scientific apparatus) and created objects that have been inspired by the environment of the north Antrim coast of Ireland.

The narrative running through the work engages ancient Greek myths, poetry, shipwrecks and folk tales drawn from the sea. Through the visual tension created between utilitarian functionality of laboratory wares and the organic growths that have colonised and inhabited them, she aspires to illuminate our mutuality with the earth, observing the boundaries where human nature and the natural world fuse together.