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2022

  • 25th Anniversary Programme
  • Joins UN International Year of Glass Programme
  • 12 Actual exhibitions across the UK
  • Commission new work from Chris Day, for the new Stourbridge Glass Museum
  • Regular online Wednesday Talks with artists
  • 6 online exhibitions
  • Holiday Heaven exhibition at International Festival of Glass

2021

  • Membership reaches 1000
  • Monthly online exhibitions
  • Partnership with The Design Trust to deliver Business Development courses.
  • Regular online Wednesday Talks with artists
  • Online International Days reaching across the world.
  • Life Forms finally showing at Pyramid Gallery York as lock down eases.

2020

  • Launch new Web Site.
  • Business Booster course with The Design Trust.
  • COVID-19 lockdown cancels events.
  • ‘Life Forms’ exhibition at Pyramid Gallery, York, moves online.
  • CGS starts live talks series online.

2019

  • Glorious Glass moves to Aylesbury at Bucks County Museum.
  • ‘Inspired’ exhibition at the Gallery at London Glass Blowing.
  • ‘Celestial Bodies’ exhibition at International Festival of Glass.
  • Glorious Glass at World of Glass St Helens.
  • 2nd Amanda Moriarty Prize.

2018

  • Online Business Booster course with The Design Trust.
  • ‘Glorious Glass’ programme begins. First event in Taunton: exhibition, forum day and glass fair.
  • Northern Hub visits Cumbria Crystal.
  • East Hub organises exhibition in Norfolk.
  • Online shows include ‘Little and Large, Glass Inspired by Great Artists’.
  • Launch of annual prize in memory of Amanda Moriarty.
  • Glorious Glass continues with exhibition and events at Maidstone Museum.
  • Glorious Glass show in Glasgow, in partnership with Scottish Glass Society.
  • Winter Exhibition at Pyramid Gallery, York.

2017

  • Exhibition at Pyramid Gallery York, ‘Water & Music’.
  • Open selected exhibition at Etienne Gallery, Holland.
  • CGS takes part in the International Festival of Glass with ‘Celebrations’ exhibition, featuring 130 members.
  • A two-day conference in Bristol, ‘Connections’.
  • Numerous online exhibitions.

2016

  • CGS membership reached 900.
  • An exhibition in partnership with The Scottish Gallery in Edinburgh.
  • Helped North Lands Creative Glass celebrate 20 years with its conference in Edinburgh.
  • Our first European exhibition in Holland with 15 CGS members’ work.
  • Collaboration with London Glass Blowing on ‘Black to White and Back Again’, with 52 CGS members taking part.

2015

  • A second showcase of members’ work displayed at the National Glass Centre in a year-long exhibition of rolling artists.
  • A CGS members’ exhibition at Pyramid Gallery, York.
  • A display of 168 glass postcards on the theme ‘Wish You Were Here’ at the International Festival of Glass.
  • Regional Hubs hold events across the country.

2014

  • Membership exceeded 700.
  • Launched the first exhibition fundraising campaign.
  • Established Regional Hubs in the East and South East.

2013

  • CGS became a charity.
  • Launched ‘Glass Skills’, a year-long celebration of the imagination and talent of today’s glassmakers and their role in keeping ancient skills alive, aimed at putting contemporary glass on the map.
  • Organised the successful ‘Glass Skills’ conference at the National Glass Centre.