Lectures

The British Society of Master Glass Painters is fortunate to attract many eminent speakers on stained and architectural glass from amongst its UK and international membership and beyond. Subjects range from modern to mediaeval, brought to life by the enthusiasm and expertise of historians, conservators and contemporary practitioners.

Venue: The Art Workers Guild, Queen Square, London WC1 (Admission by ticket only)

Organizer: Sue Ashworth

Bookings: Helen Robinson

For the 2008 programme download an Events Calendar 

For tickets download a Booking Form 

Further enquiries to: Lecture Bookings

Programme 2008

Spring lecture
Friday 14th March - 6.30 for 7pm

David King

'Personalities, Politics and Plays': The stained Glass of east Harling Church, Norfolk

David King was born into a family of  glaziers specializing  in the conservation of medieval glass.  In 2006 he published the Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi volume;The Medieval Stained Glass of St Peter Mancroft, Norwich,  and is now working at the University of East Anglia on the CVMA Summary Catalogue for Norfolk.  He has written on many aspects of medieval and rennaissance art in East Anglia.

 

Summer Lecture and Annual General Meeting
Friday 20th June - AGM 5pm, lecture 6.30 for 7pm

Ellen Mandelbaum

'Light Listened'

Mandelbaum is known for her expressive brush stroke; she began as a painter and has worked on glass for over twenty-five years. Painting on glass enabled her to pull together the beautiful colors of antique glass and to realize her potential as an artist in glass.

Mandelbaum has made major projects for churches, residences, and for the large scale window at the South Carolina Aquarium. She brings experience as an artist working in glass. In each case she has demanded of herself that the work be expressive and true to the medium so that many of her most recent works feature the transparency of glass and open out onto beautiful views while they interact with the interior space.

BSMGP 40cm² Exhibition Launch
Monday 7th July

1-5.30pm - Luncheon and Slide Show at the Art Workers Guild
4-8pm - Private View at the Cochrane Gallery

 During the afternoon exhibitors will be invited to present their work -  whistlestop insite into the work of more than 50 practising artists - not to be missed!  This will be followed by the formal opening of the exhibition at the Cochrane Gallery.

Autumn Lecture
Friday 10th October - 6.30 for 7pm

Geoffrey Robinson FMGP

'Windows into the life of a Stained Glazier'

This photograph of the window at Lansoy, Gwent is a taster for forthcoming talk.  The window symbolises God's promise to Noah, Genesis Ch.8, v.22, written out at the foot of the left hand light.  The 'cold and heat' of the bible verse gave me the idea of dividing the three lights into a cold half (blue) and a hot half (ruby).  'Day and Night' are symbolised by the Sun in the hot part and the moon in the blue part.  A fall of seed plus drops of rain in the left hand light with fruit, grain and grapes in the left hand light symbolise 'seedtime and harvest'.  Linking all is the rainbow with the dove bearing an olive branch over symbolic water.  Above in the centre light, the Cross dominates the orb of the earth done in Uroborus glass.  Six small stars illumine the traceries.

The window was completed in 1988 for £2310+Vat

Christmas Dinner in aid of the Artists General Benevolent Fund
Friday 5th December 6.30pm

Speaker to be announced

Lectures retrospective

2007

• Kate Baden Fuller - 'Contemporary stained glass artists and how to write a book about them'
• Sarah Brown MA FSA Hon FMGP - The Judge, the traitor, his wife and her lover - the medieval glass of Tewkesbury Abbey'
• Doris Rollinson, Andrew Taylor and Caroline Swash '- 'Fifty Years of Glass - amongst other things'.  A celebration of the life and work of John Hayward FMGP'

2006

• Tim Lewis – 'The importance of the teacher in stained glass'
• Ginger Ferrell – 'A new bag of tricks': the use of kiln formed glass in new work
• Dr David O'Connor – 'Mediaeval stained glass in Scandinavia: Gotland's gothic glass'
• Tony Benyon, Peter Cormack FSA and the Rt Revd Graeme Knowles AKC, MLC – 'Alan Younger, focus on an artist's life: three perspectives'
• Peter Gibson - 'The Christmas Story in Stained Glass'

2005

• Catrin Jones - ’20 years of practice’
• Caroline Swash – ‘Confessio. The thoughts and art of Johannes Schreiter’
• Julie Sloan MSc and Dr James Yarnall – ‘John La Farge’
• Dr Paul Binski – Canterbury Cathedral and the aesthetics of martyrdom’

2004

• Dr Michael Peover - 'Sleeping Beauty : unseen stained glass at the Soane Museum'
• Linda Lichtman – ‘Little and large: keeping the personal in public commissions'
• Ruth Taylor Jacobson – ‘Marc Chagall’

2003

• Dr Tim Ayers FSA – ‘Glazing the English Medieval cathedral:the East End of Wells c1320-1340’
• Graham Jones – his work in stained glass
• Dr Nicola Gordon Bowe – ‘The most exacting of masters, the most ruthless scrapper of imperfect heads: the art of Wilhelmina Geddes 1887–1955’