Category: Issue 125
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Appeal for Help
Brianne Kozlowski, a graduate from the University of York MA (2013) now consulting in the US, and Drew Anderson of the Metropolitan Museum of Art are appealing for information regarding the design of the 19th c. window from Trinity Church, Wall Street in Manhattan. The windows were fabricated by Abner Stephenson. Little is known about…
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Inspired by Burne-Jones, a Unique Exhibition of Contemporary Glass
4th – 16th June, 2019 The Grange Art Gallery, Rottingdean, East Sussex Among the glitterati attracted to the seaside village of Rottingdean at the end of the 19th century was Edward Burne-Jones, who from 1880 called Aubrey House, on the other side of The Green from The Grange, his home for almost twenty years. St…
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Canterbury Cathedral: Stained Glass Studio Tour
Friday, 17th May, 2019 Canterbury Cathedral houses one of the country’s most important collections of early medieval stained glass. The Cathedral’s Stained Glass Studio employs a team of expert conservators to restore this historic body of material, as well as to create new glazing as required. Visitors taking part in the tour will learn all…
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Canterbury Cathedral Lecture Series: See-through Stories: Windows on the World
Starting on May 1st, Canterbury Cathedral Stained Glass Studio will host a series of six presentations by leading public speakers looking through and at Canterbury Cathedral’s stained glass windows, the biblical figures they illustrate and their relevance for today. The lectures will include: 1 May: Rabbi Dr. Deborah Kahn-Harris (Principal, Leo Baeck College) ‘Who Do You…
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Vacancy at Cologne
Cathedral’s Stained Glass Studio Cologne Cathedral is inviting applications for a permanent position as a stained glass restorer, working in the cathedral studio. International applicants are welcome. Fluency in the German language is not expected, and applications may be made in English, but a basic knowledge of German, and an eagerness to improve upon that,…
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BSMGP Touring Conference 2019: Bath and the Levels
Wednesday, 28th – Saturday, 31st August, 2019 The British Society of Master Glass Painters’ annual three-day autumn conference, exploring the British Isles’ stained glass heritage, attracts stained glass artists, conservators, restorers, historians, researchers and other enthusiasts alike. The conferences are planned and led by expert guides in collaboration with members whose local knowledge and connections…
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BSMGP Summer Lecture 2019
Friday, 14th June 2019 at 6.15pm The British Society of Master Glass Painters’ (BSMGP) Summer lecture will be given this year by the award-winning architectural glass art specialist, Martin Donlin, who will share his Reflections on 30 years of Glass. These three decades have seen Martin take on projects large and small, sacred and secular,…
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BSMGP Discussion Day 2019: ‘Splendid yet Intimate – Stained Glass for House and Home’
Friday, 31st May, 2019 from 10.00am to 4.30pm Each year the BSMGP holds a discussion day aimed at students and stained glass artists in the early stages of their career, although established artists and interested amateurs are also welcome. This May, the day will take as its theme, ‘Splendid yet Intimate – Stained Glass for…
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Lecture: The Stained Glass of Charles Eamer Kempe (1837-1907)
Friday, 12th April, 2019, 2.30pm – 4.30pm Kempe’s influence on Victorian and 20th-century church art and decoration was immense, and his work attracted the patronage of Royalty, senior clergy, the aristocracy and friends. Adrian Barlow, an experienced writer, lecturer and recognised expert on Kempe and his work, will present some of his thoughts about Kempe’s…
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The Milton Window at St Margaret’s Church, Westminster [1]
Beverley Sherry University of Sydney (beverley.sherry@sydney.edu.au) Milton and the visual arts is a widely researched subject but has not yet extended to stained glass. Portraits of Milton and illustrations of his works in some artistic media date from as early as the seventeenth century, but it was not until the nineteenth century, with the advent…