Bio
After working for over twenty years as a
freelance jewellery designer/maker I
turned to
working in
glass in 1995. I have found this a wonderful medium for
personal expression and have been able to help to introduce other people to
it through teaching
the technique of flamework. I also demonstrate and give
lectures. In 2001 I went to India to work with native craftsmen on new
designs
for a commercial catlogue and since then I have taught in Switzerland and USA.
I am a committee member and Secretary of the Contemporary Glass Society based in the
United Kingdom. I am also a member of the Association for Contemporary
Jewellery, The Glass Art Society and the International Society of Glass
Beadmakers.
Statement
I find it amazing and fascinating that consciousness
is an electro chemical process and that perception is entirely virtual, being
processed by the brain.
I am doubly confounded by the fact that the brain works on a quantum level and
that quantum theory does not obey our accepted laws of physics.
I try to visualise these apparent facts through my work in glass.
I
mainly make wearable pieces because I am interested in how the wearing of a
piece can alter one’s perception of self.
Teaching
2005/06 DeMontfort University,
part time lecturer
Escuela
del Vidrio, Spain, 9th to 17th November 2005
Stiphout
Studios, Netherlands, short course, June 2005
Stages,
Sars- Poteries, France, 22nd to 27th November 2004
TimberWolf
Studios, Boston, USA, 3rd to 6th June 2004
Creative
Glass, Zurich, Switzerland, 19th 20th May 2004
International
Society of Glass Beadmakers Gathering, Virginia, USA, Advanced tuition August
2002.
Committees
and society memberships
Contemporary
Glass Society, Britain, Vice Chair
Glass
Beadmakers UK, founder member, membership secretary
Glass
Art society, USA, member
International
Society of Glass Beadmakers, USA, member
Association
for Contemporary Jewellery, Britain, member
Perles
l’Art, France, member
Galleries
Lomas
Gallery, Crouch End, London
Morgan
Contemporary Glass Gallery, Pittsburg, PA,
USA
New
Ashgate Gallery, Surrey
Exhibitions,
presentations, residencies etc.
Wearing Glass, National Glass
Centre, Sunderland May 2006
2nd
Gather 2006, Himley Hall, West Midlands, May for six weeks.
Art in Action, Waterperry,
Oxford, July 2006
2nd Gather, Himley Hall, West Midlands, May 2005
Art in Action, Waterperry, Oxford, July 2005
Wearing Glass 2, Oxo Tower, London, October 2005
British
Glass Biennale 2004, Stourbridge.
Jewellery Unlimited Exhibition, Association for Contemporary Jewellery, Bristol.
2004
Presentation, Creative Glass, Zurich, Switzerland, 16th May.
Demonstration, Glass Art Society Conference 2004, New Orleans 2004
Currency Exhibition, Bullseye Connection Gallery, Portland, USA, July 6th to
August 7th2004
2nd Gather 2004 Exhibition, Himley Hall, West Midlands, May for six weeks 2004
2nd
Gather 2003, Himley Hall, West Midlands, May for six weeks.
Art in Action, Waterperry near Oxford, July 2003
Bazaar, ISGB Gathering, Boston, USA, August 2003
2nd
Gather 2002, Himley Hall, West Midlands, 25th May for six weeks.
Brit Handmade, New Delhi, India 18th to 26th May 2002
Art In Action, Waterperry near Oxon, 18th to 21st July 2002
Gave presentation, International Society of Glass Beadmakers Gathering,
Virginia, USA August 2002.
Obsession, travelling exhibition, USA 2002 The bead I submitted sold for the top
price of $625 in the Obsession Auction.
Connect
exhibition, City Gallery, Leicester 2001
AA2A scheme, Artist's Access, University of Central England, Birmingham
2000/2001.
2nd Gather2001, Himley Hall, West Midlands.
Worked with craftsmen in India, July 2001.
25th Japan Hobby Show, Tokyo, Japan 2001
12th
annual Open, City Gallery, Leicester 2000
Light Phantastic, Plumbline Gallery, St. Ives 2000
Art in Action, Waterperry near Oxon 2000
New Designers, Islington, London 2000
2nd Gather2000, Himley Hall, West Midlands 2000
Artists in Residence, Ceramics and Glass, DeMontfort University 2000, The Ark,
Leicester 2000
Contemporary Glass Society, Plumbline Gallery, St. Ives 2000
Karanis Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 2000 Toyama, Japan.
Artist in Residence, DeMontfort University, Leicester 1999/2000.
11th Annual Open, City Gallery, Leicester 1999
Beads of Europe, Wohnen und Kunst Gallery, Hamburg 1999
New Designers, Islington, London 1999
1st Gather, Himley Hall, West Midlands 1999
Spring Fair, NEC, Birmingham 1999
Beads of the World, Broadfield House Glass Museum, West Midlands 1999
Work in permanent collections
‘Sea
Memories’ glass bead, Musée
de France, Berck sur Mer, France
‘Apogee
1’ glass bead Museo del Vidrio, Spain
‘Positive
Thinking’ glass bead, Bead Museum, Washington DC, USA
Awards
1999 Business Link Trophy Competition, 1st place, Award of £250.00.
1974 Royal Society of Arts Bursary £200.00.
Publications
'Beads of Glass' Cindy Jenkins
'The Enamelled And Etched Beads Of Diana East And Their Intricate Images' Jim
Kervin
1000
Glass Beads, Lark Books
Lapidary
Journal article October/November 2004
Education
and Qualifications
2001 Connect postgraduate course in Arts practice and presentation, Derby
University.
2000 Bild-Werk Summer Glass Academy, Frauenau, Bavaria.
2000 Teaching qualification level one, Art Clay Silver, Creative Glass, Zurich.
2000 Corning Studio, USA. Flame working.
99/00 Web site Design and Use of the Internet, Creative Network, UCE,
Birmingham.
98/99 ONCW Techniques and Technology of Glass, International Glass Centre,
Brierly Hill.
71/74 BA (Hons.) 3D Design, Leicester Polytechnic.
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'Aladdin's Palace' bead submitted for the 2002
Obsession Exhibition and
auction and sold for $625.
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