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

Awards 2008

Each year the British Glass Biennale awards a prize for work that is 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 in association with the Worshipful Company of Glass Sellers have awarded the following prizes.

£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 Award Winner, Bob Crooks, ‘Vertical Vase’ Photo: Ian Jackson
Glass Sellers Student Award Winner, Timothy Boswell, ‘Fiesta 1’
Photo: Dave Bagnall
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 Award – Runner up, James Lethbridge, ‘Serpentine Chandelier’, Photo: Simon Bruntnell
Glass Sellers Student Award –
Runner up, Steven Whitehill,
‘Untitled’
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'
British Glass Biennale 2006 Award Winner: Max Jacquard, 'For My Lost Loves III'
Made Together Award winner:
Iestyn Davies and Adrian Mulley, 'Ripple'
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'
Hannah Kippax  2004 Biennale Winner

News

Dates

  • People’s Prize Announcement:
    27 September 2008
  • Awards Ceremony:
    21 August 2008
  • Exhibition Opens:
    22 August 2008
  • Winner Announced:
    22 August 2008
  • Exhibition Ends:
    28 September 2008
  • British Glass Biennale:
    Stourbridge, West Midlands
    Open Daily: 10am – 5pm