See/ British Glass Biennale/ 22 August to 28 September 2008
General Information
GLASS AWARD WINNERS FOR 2008 ANNOUNCED
Hundreds of guests celebrated with this year’s glass award winners at the opening of the British Glass Biennale exhibition which took place at the Ruskin Glass Centre in Amblecote, Stourbridge, West Midlands on Thursday 21 August.
Tracy Nicholls was blown away when the jurors announced that she was the winner of the British Glass Biennale Award for her triptych – Orphica I, II and III. Her piece was judged by the Biennale jury to reflect the highest degree of creative achievement in contemporary British glass, and to be the ‘best in show’.
The Glass Sellers Award went to Bob Crooks for Vertical Vase and Timothy Boswell received the Glass Sellers Student Award for Fiesta 1. Both winners were selected by the Worshipful Company of Glass Sellers who were looking for originality and talent in the use of glass as a medium of artistic expression.
Timothy Boswell’s piece won the students prize because of the palette of different types of glass, raw materials and techniques it contains such as tubing from neon signs, hollow canes, stringers and rods fused together to produce plaque motifs.
Our runner up prize for the Glass Sellers Award went to James Lethbridge for his piece Serpentine Chandelier, this and Coalescence ii, also in the exhibition, demonstrate his ability over a range of different magnitudes. Steven Whitehill was our runner up for the Glass Sellers Student Award, his piece “untitled” was chosen because of its simplicity, good use of materials, calmness and elegance – in complete contrast to Timothy Boswell’s”.
The prize money for all three awards totalled £14,000.
British Glass Biennale Award £8,000
Glass Sellers Award £5,000
Glass Sellers Student Award £1,000
The British Glass Biennale is a selling show with over 130 pieces of work ranging from the small scale to large installations and prices from £200 – £35,000 for sale to collectors and buyers.
The exhibition is open daily from 22 August to 28 September at the Ruskin Glass Centre, Stourbridge; the heart of the historic glass industry in the UK.
Ticketing Information
Exhibition: Free Admission
Contact Information
For further information visit the Biennale website or call +44(0) 1384 399410.
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