Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
Room 1: 1 May - 20 June 2010
Swansea Metropolitan University's Welsh School of Architectural Glass is celebrating its seventy-fifth anniversary following a long and illustrious past during which it has become a major world centre for glass art.
Students from the School have won an unprecedented number of awards and prestigious competitions and their creations can be found in collections across the world. The School's commercial arm, the Architectural Glass Centre (AGC), has been involved in high-profile projects, including the installation of windows for the restoration of St. Teilo's Church from Llandeilo Tal-y-Bont, now at St Fagans: National History Museum, near Cardiff. Many leading glass practitioners have graduated from Swansea including Alexander Beleschenko, Mark Angus, Martin Donlin, Graham Jones, Catrin Jones, Chris Bird-Jones, Sarah Hall, Amber Hiscott, Vanessa Cutler, David Pearl and Sachiko Yamomoto, all of whom have international reputations.
The Welsh School of Architectural Glass has remained at its Alexandra Road home for the past seventy-five years. It also has a permanent exhibition space in the National Waterfront Museum, Swansea. It still stands as the only purely architecturally-based glass School in the world. The anniversary will be marked with events and exhibitions throughout 2010. This exhibition, whilst modest in scale, offers an exciting glimpse into the School's history and includes designs, drawings photographs and artefacts from the process of stained glass making.
I had an opportunity to go along and look at the exhibition on Saturday and it was well worth the visit and even saw one of the images from one of my stained glass panels used in one of the archive folders. Also bumped into some old fellow students for a chat which is always nice.
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