Glass Biennale 2010

The British Glass Biennale is the major selling exhibition of British contemporary glass that takes place once every two years. It is a highlight of the the International Festival of Glass from 23 August - 11 September.

Glass Master classes run from 23 - 26 August, Festival events take place from 27 - 30 August and the British Glass Biennale starts on 27 August and continues until 11 September. www.biennale.org.uk

for information about master classes taking place during the Bienalle visit www.ifg.org.uk/masterclasses.html

Creativity and Innovation in Glass

Symposium, Friday 27 August, School of Art & Design, University of Wolverhampton

This one-day symposium will explore the special nature of glass in craft and industry. It will focus on the development of innovative approaches and creative opportunities for glass.

It will also bring together a number of high profile keynote speakers and glass professionals, such as Dr David Bricknell and Dr Vanessa Cutler, who work with new technologies or use traditional processes in new ways to expand creative vocabularies and technical possibilities.

The symposium seeks to explore similarities & differences across the differing attitudes to the special nature of the material ‘glass’.

We have invited papers from a wide spectrum that reaches from the position of individual craft practitioners when faced with the new formal vocabulary inherent in a new manufacturing or making process, to that of a glass technologist seeking to develop a new type of glass product.

Symposium Information

Please visit: www.ifg.org.uk  for more information about the International Festival of Glass

*image by Dr Vanessa Cutler