Education
2000 - 2003
BA(Hons) Visual Arts, Painting, Camberwell College of Arts, London.
1999 - 2000
HNC Fine Art, Kensington & Chelsea College, London.
1992 - 1993
The International Glass Centre, Brierley Hill, Dudley College of Technology.
1991
Glasskolen, Do Karlsund, Århus, Denmark.
Work
1996 - 2012
Production of own designs comprising abstract and functional work and being senior freelance glassblower for Peter Layton, London Glassblowing.
2008
Curator of ‘Global Final of the Bombay Sapphire Designer Glass competition’ London Design Week.
2008
Curator of the ‘Bombay Sapphire Prize 2008’ at My Gallery, Milan during Salone del Mobile in collaboration with Candice-Elena Greer
2005 - 2007
Organiser and curator of Peter Layton & Friends – the 30th Anniversary of London Glassblowing, British touring exhibition.
2005
Spatial designer, co-organiser and curator of the exhibition ‘Wearing Glass’ at the.gallery@OXO, London and the National Glass Centre, Sunderland.
2004
Gler i Bergvik ehf – glass studio, Sigrun O. Einarsdottir, Iceland.
1999
Assistant at Centro D’Arte Verrocchio, Tuscany, Italy.
1993 - 1995
Assisted Søren Ringgård at Glas Værkstedet in Søndervig and Ebeltoft, Denmark.
Awards/Opportunities
2006
Artist in Residence at Corning Museum of Glass, USA in May.
2003
Selected to exhibit on the ‘One Year On’ Craft Council stand at New Designers in the Business Design Centre in Islington.
1998
Scholarship in drawing and painting at Oliver Bevan’s studio school.
Grants
2006
CIDA support package for exhibiting at Origin
2007
Grosserer L. F. Foghts Fond .
Represented at
1998
Corning Museum of Glass, The Studio, NY, USA.
Commissions & Collections
2006 & 2007
Glass for Yinka Shonibare MBE ‘Flower Time’, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London.
2006
Corning Museum of Glass, the Studio Collection, NY - USA.
2004
Den Danske Bank’s Art Association, Denmark.
Sparekassen Kronjylland’s Art Association, Denmark.
1999
Corning Museum of Glass, the Studio Collection, NY - USA.
2006
DW Productions UK Ltd., oil lamps for the movie ‘Gladiator’.
Various private collections.
2006
Corning Museum of Glass, the Studio Collection, NY - USA.
Publications
2012
‘Past and Present, Peter Layton and London Glassblowing.’
‘British Glass Biennale 2012, Ruskin Glass Centre exhibition catalogue.’
2008
‘British Glass Biennale 2008’, Ruskin Glass Centre exhibition catalogue
2007
‘New Glass Review 28’, Neues Glas & Corning Museum of Glass
‘Glasss 2007’, exhibition catalogue.
2006
‘Peter Layton & Friends celebrating London Glassblowing’.
‘British Glass Biennale’, Ruskin Glass Centre exhibition catalogue.
‘Tangents’, Glass Art Gallery exhibition catalogue.
2005
Co-organiser of ‘Wearing Glass’, 27fishes exhibition catalogue.
‘Art catalogue 2005’, Den Danske Bank’s Art Association.
2004
Chelsea Craft Fair’s 25th anniversary catalogue.
‘British Glass Biennale 2004’, Ruskin Glass Centre exhibition catalogue.
‘What’s New…... Danish Glass 2004’, Glasmuseet Ebeltoft exhibition catalogue.
2003
‘One Year On’ at New Designers catalogue sponsored by Design Week.
Promotional leaflet for New Designers.
2002
Promotional leaflet for Gifts for Lara Palmer, Westbourne Grove, London.
‘The Pool of London. What’s On?’ diary of events July 2002.
Selected exhibitions
2012
Past and Present, Peter Layton and London Glassblowing, London Glassblowing.
British Glass Biennale 2012, The Ruskin Glass Centre, Amblecote, Stourbridge.
2008
British Glass Biennale 2008, The Ruskin Glass Centre, Amblecote, Stourbridge.
The Art of Glass, St. Ives Society of Artists curated by Plumbline Gallery, St. Ives.
Short-listed for the Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London.
2007
Origin 2007, Somerset House, London.
Cuppola Gallery summer show, Sheffield, UK.
GLASSS 2007, Kunstindustrimuseet Copenhagen & Holstebro Kunstmuseum, Denmark.
Artspace, Barngalleries, Henley-on-Thames with Cultural Connections.
Northern Light, Collyer Bristow Gallery & Cultural Connections.
2006 - 2008
Peter Layton & Friends – the 30th Anniversary of London Glassblowing, touring exhibition at Ruskin Glass Centre (Stourbridge), World of Glass (St. Helens), The Hub Centre for Design and Craft (Sleaford), National Glass Centre (Sunderland), Quest Gallery & Royal Crescent Hotel (Bath), Glasgalerie Köln, Germany, Delamore Gallery (Devon) and Glass Art Gallery (London)
2006
British Glass Biennale 2006, The Ruskin Glass Centre, Amblecote, Stourbridge.
Galerie Fleur De Lis, Delft, Holland.
Artspace, Henley-on-Thames with Cultural Connections.
The GLASS EXHIBITION 2006, Pyramid Gallery, York.
Tangents, Glass Art Gallery, London.
2005
Kunstindustrimuseet, Copenhagen, DK, represented in museum shop
Quest Gallery, Bath.
Apple Gallery, Surrey, England.
Plumbline Gallery, St. Ives, Cornwall.
2004
Strand Gallery, Aldeburgh.
British Glass, Glass Inspiration, Switzerland.
Chelsea Craft Fair, London.
British Glass Biennale 2004, The Ruskin Glass Centre, Amblecote, Stourbridge.
HúnOgHún, Reykjavik, Island.
The GLASS EXHIBITION, Pyramid Gallery, York.
Plateaux Gallery, London.
Galleri Ægidius, Randers, Denmark.
‘What’s New…... Danish Glass 2004’, Ebeltoft Glass Museum, Denmark.
Cho Cho San, Islington, London.
2003
’One Year On’ at New Designers, London.
’Heavenly Scent’, Glass Art Gallery, London.
Degree Show, Camberwell College of Arts, London.
The Contemporary Craftsman, Monmouth.
De Morgan Gallery, London.
2002
‘The Next Best Thing’, Gallery 27, Cork Street, London.
Gifts for Lara Palmer, Westbourne Grove, London.
‘Contemporary Perfume bottles’, Montpellier Gallery, Stratford upon Avon.
2000
‘A gathering of Glass’, Sable V Fine Art Gallery, Texas, USA.
1999
Chelsea Art Fair, Milne & Moller Gallery.
1998
Studio Fusion Gallery, The Oxo Tower, London.
‘Bankside Browser, An Archive’, Bankside Gallery in coalition with the Tate Modern.
‘Contemporary Perfume bottles’, British touring exhibition.
1997
‘Twenty-one Today’, Glass Art Gallery, London and touring England.
1993
‘First Gather’, Broadfield House, Stourbridge.
Personal details
Born
December 8th, 1971 in Århus, Denmark.
Lives and works in London, UK.