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The Glass Heart, Two Temple Place

January 27 - April 21


Free
The Glass Heart

The Glass Heart is an exhibition exploring the art of glass in the UK which is held at Two Temple Place gallery in London from 27 January to 21 April.

The Glass Heart

This major London exhibition merges key regional collections and artists for the first time. Including over 100 works of arty and spanning 170 years, The Glass Heart demonstrates both the timelessness of the art form and the amazing innovative techniques employed by the artists.

Chris Day, Judge & Jury, 2023, glass & microbore copper pipe © The Artist. Courtesy of Vessel Gallery. Image Agata Pec. copy
Chris Day, Judge & Jury © The Artist. Courtesy of Vessel Gallery. Image Agata Pec.

Artists involved include: Monster Chetwynd, Edward Burne-Jones, Anthony Amoako-Attah, Brian Clarke, Wilhelmina Geddes, Pinkie Maclure, Christopher Whall, Peter Layton and Chris Day, as well as William Morris.

The exhibition includes work from Stourbridge and Sunderland, the industrial heartlands of glass making in the UK, as well as the Stained Glass Museum in Ely.

The Glass Heart explores the narrative of glass art as well as exploring how different techniques reflected regional social history.

The Glass Heart
Burne Jones / Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co, Musician Angel (playing aulos), 1865, stained glass panel. Courtesy of The Stained Glass Museum

When Is It?

The exhibition will run from 27 January to 21 April, 2024.

Where Is It?

It will take place at Two Temple Place. For more information visit: www.twotempleplace.org.

Main image: Pinkie Maclure, The Soil, 2023. © The Artist copy.


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Details

Start:
January 27
End:
April 21
Cost:
Free
Event Category:
Topics:
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Website:
www.twotempleplace.org

Venue

Two Temple Place
London,WC2R 3BD+ Google Map

Mark Bibby Jackson

Before setting up Travel Begins at 40 and subsequently London Begins at 40, Mark was the publisher of AsiaLIFE Cambodia and a freelance lifestyle and travel writer. When he is not packing and unpacking his travelling bag, Mark writes novels, including To Cook A Spider, Peppered Justice and Unravelling the Web. He loves walking, eating, beer, isolation and arthouse movies, as well as talking to strangers on planes, buses and trains. He is cursed to come from a family of Leyton Orient fans.
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