British Glass Biennale 2008 Award Winner: Tracy Nicholls, ‘Orphica I, II, III’. Photo: Simon Bruntnell

AWARDS 2010

British Glass Biennale Award

British Glass Biennale Award for ’Best in Show’ of £3000, in memory of Robert Dunn

The award was made possible by the generous donations of Susan Dunn, in memory of her father Robert Dunn, and Mark Holford, a British Glass Collector.

The Glass Sellers Awards

The British Glass Biennale is delighted to be working once again in 2010 with the Worshipful Company of Glass Sellers. In addition to their kind sponsorship of the exhibition, they will offer the following awards:

The Glass Sellers Award of £5000
The Glass Sellers Award, Runner up of £1000
The Glass Sellers Student Award of £1000
The Glass Sellers Student Award, Runner up of £500

The Art in Action Award for Contemporary Glass

Art in Action will also be offering a £1000 prize for ’The Art in Action Award for Contemporary Glass’. All artists who are exhibiting in this year’s exhibition will be eligible for the award and the winner will also be invited to demonstrate at Art in Action 2011.

Winners will be announced at the Private View Awards Evening on 26th August.

AWARDS 2008

In 2008 the British Glass Biennale once again awarded a prize for work that was judged by the jury panel to reflect the highest degree of creative imagination and technical achievement in contemporary British glass, and to be the ‘best in show’.

The British Glass Biennale also worked in association with the Worshipful Company of Glass Sellers, to offer a further four prizes.

Prize winners 2008

£8,000 British Glass Biennale Award ‘for best in show’
Winner - Tracy Nicholls, ‘Orphica I, II, II’

£5,000 Glass Sellers Award
Winner - Bob Crooks, ‘Vertical Vase’

£1,000 Glass Sellers Student Award
Winner - Timothy George Boswell, ‘Fiesta 1’

Glass Sellers Award
Runner up - James Lethbridge, ‘Serpentine Chandelier’

Glass Sellers Student Award
Runner up - Steven Whitehill, ‘Untitled’

Glass Sellers Award Winner, Bob Crooks, ‘Vertical Vase’ Photo: Ian Jackson

Glass Sellers Student Award Winner, Timothy Boswell, ‘Fiesta 1’ Photo: Dave Bagnall

Glass Sellers Award Runner up, James Lethbridge, ‘Serpentine Chandelier’, Photo: Simon Bruntnell

Glass Sellers Student Award – Runner up, Steven Whitehill, ‘Untitled’

 

AWARDS 2006
The 2006 Biennale offered two separate £5,000 prizes: one for best in show, the other the ’Made Together Award’ sponsored by net infinity (an Advantage West Midlands project) – awarded for a new collaborative piece by a glass artist working with a practioner from another design sector.

Prize Winners 2006

British Glass Biennale 2006 Award Winner: Max Jacquard, ’For My Lost Loves III’

Made Together Award winner: Iestyn Davies and Adrian Mulley, ’Ripple’

AWARD 2004
The inaugural British Glass Biennale in 2004 awarded £5000 ‘for best in show’.

Prize Winner 2004

British Glass Biennale 2004 Award winner: Hannah Kippax with ’Seeking Rovnováha’