Curriculum Vitae
Dates of Birth
Brian - 1957
Jenny - 1955
Trained
Brian
1980-1983
Royal College of Art, M.A. Glass & Ceramics
1976-1979
Stourbridge College of Art B.A. Glass & Ceramics
Jenny
1978-1981
Stoke on Trent B.A. 3D Hon's Design Flat Glass
Architectural Commissions
2000
Enamel painted glass panels with glass appliqué designed from images supplied by the children at Dover Park Primary School, Isle of Wight
1999
Chandelier for private French client
1993
Glass table top for private client in collaboration with John Makepeace
Seven glass panels for Coca-Cola's UK Headquarters, Hammersmith, London
1992
Large light 1,000mm x 800mm designed in collaboration with Louise Slater, Southampton Art Gallery
1985
Peter Symonds School, Winchester
1982
Lordshill Community School, Southampton
Presentation Commissions
2007
Rochdale Online Awards
2006
Rochdale Online Awards
1997
Association of Professional Videomakers Awards 1992: British Film Awards
1987
Association for Business Sponsorship of the Arts
Awards
1985
Coburg Second Glass Prize, Commendation
1983
Mathiledehoe Prize, Rosenthal, Germany
Corning Glass Prize
1982
Royal College of Art minor travelling award to Outer Hebrides
Worshipful Company of Glass Sellers of London
Exhibitions
2011
50 years of Studio Glass from Great Britain, European Museum of Modern Glass
2008
Contemporary Applied Arts, London
London Art Fair
Adrian Sassoon and Clare Beck, Business Design Centre, London
2007
In The Window, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
The International Ceramics Fair, The Park Lane Hotel, London
London Art Fair
Adrian Sassoon with Clare Beck, Business Design Centre
2006
The International Art & Design Fair, Adrian Sassoon/Clare Beck, The Armory, New York
British Glass Biennale
Stourbridge, England (catalogue)
International Ceramics Fair & Seminar, Park Lane Hotel, London
London Art Fair
Adrian Sassoon with Clare Beck, Business Design Centre
2005
Cowdy Gallery Winter Collection, Newent
The International Ceramics Fair & Seminar - Adrian Sassoon Stand, London
London Art Fair
Adrian Sassoon Stand, Business Design Centre
2004
Focus Contemporary Applied Arts
Cowdy Gallery Winter Collection, Newent
The International Art & Design Fair
Adrian Sassoon stand, New York
The International Ceramics Fair - Adrian Sassoon stand, London
Grosvenor House Art & Antiques Fair - C & L Burman (Works of Art) Ltd stand, London
2002
International Ceramics Fair - Adrian Sassoon stand, London
Business Design Centre - Adrian Sassoon stand, London
2001
International Ceramics Fair - Adrian Sassoon stand, London
Business Design Centre - Adrian Sassoon stand, London
Cowdy Gallery
Beadleston Gallery - New York
Business Design Centre - Adrian Sassoon stand
2000
International Ceramics Fair - Adrian Sassoon stand, London
Business Design Centre - Adrian Sassoon stand, London
Showcase Exhibition at Contemporary Applied Arts
Art 2000 Olympia - Adrian Sassoon stand
1999
International 20th Century Arts Fair, Armory, New York Adrian Sassoon stand
Work auctioned at Philip's - London
International Ceramics Fair - Adrian Sassoon stand, London
Olympia Art and Antiques - Adrian Sassoon stand
Business Design Centre - Adrian Sassoon stand, London
Oxford Gallery
1998
Edinburgh City Art Gallery
National Glass Centre Sunderland
International Ceramics Fair - Adrian Sassoon stand, London
Olympia Art and Antiques - Adrian Sassoon stand
Business Design Centre - Adrian Sassoon stand, London
1997
National Art Collectors Fund at Christies, London
Works Gallery, Philadelphia, U.S.A
International Ceramics Fair - Adrian Sassoon stand, London
Olympia Art and Antiques - Adrian Sassoon stand
Business Design Centre - Adrian Sassoon stand, London
British Studio Glass Exhibition - Central Europe
National Art Collectors Fund at Christies - London
Works Gallery - Philadelphia U.S.A.
1996
S.O.F.A Miami and Chicago U.S.A. - Adrian Sassoon stand
British Studio Glass Exhibition - Central Europe
1995
Garland of Glass, Cowdy Gallery - Newent
Musée National De Céramique Sérves - France
Michele Beiny Harkins & Adrian Sassoon - New York U. S. A.
Art Glass Centre - Holland
1994
Summer Show, Cowdy Gallery - Newent
Ideal Home, Galerie Art and Crafts Claude Andr Brussels, Belgium
Osiris Gallery - Belgium
Gallery L. - Germany
1993
The Glass Show, Crafts Council Gallery - London
1991
Celebration of Glass, Cowdy Gallery - Newent
European Glass Exhibition, ECTARC, Llangollen, Wales
1990
Takashimaya Tokyo Japan organised by Miharudo Gallery and Martna Margets
1989
Coleridge of Piccadilly, Highgate, and Edinburgh
Miller Gallery U.S.A 1989: Liberty's London
Gallery D'Amon, Paris, France
International New Art Forms Exposition, Chicago, U.S.A.
British Decorative Arts, Auction at Christies
1988
Braggiotti Gallery - Rotterdam, Netherlands
Art Vision - Jedda, Saudi Arabia
Craft and Folk Art Museum - Los Angeles, U.S.A.
Habitat - Michigan, U.S.A.
British Decorative Arts, Auction at Christies
1987
Hankyu Department Store - Osaka and Kyoto, Japan
Kunst In Glas Galerien - Munich, West Germany
Habitat - Michigan, U.S.A.
The New Spirit: British Craft And Design, Crafts Council, London And Touring
1986
British Decorative Arts, Auction At Christies
Contemporary Art Fair - Olympia, London
1985
Clara Scremini Gallery - Paris, France
Second Coburg Glass Prize - Coburg Castle, Germany
Contemporary Art Fair - Olympia, London
1984
Broadfield House Glass Museum, Kingswinford
Bristol Museum, Bristol
Side Show (solo exhibition) - Coleridge of Piccadilly, London
Black & White - British Crafts Centre, London
Brighton Museum, Brighton and Pilkington Museum of Glass, St Helens
Klein Contemporary Glass 1983: Arab Home Furnishing And Consumer Goods Bahrain Exhibition Centre
1983
Rosenthal Studio Galerie. Essen
Degree Show - Royal College of Art, London (catalogue)
Summer Show - British Crafts Centre, London
Class of '82 - Coleridge of Highgate, London
Peterborough City Art Gallery, Peterborough
Chelsea Crafts Fair (as Royal College of Art: Ceramics and Glass) = Crafts Council Exhibition, Chelsea Old Town Hall, London
Directions: Contemporary Glass Art - British Artists in Glass, Touring Exhibition. Commonwealth Institute, London, Bristol City Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol, Swansea Museum, Swansea and Broadfield House Glass Museum. Kingswinford
1982
Group Show - Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
Group Show - Portsmouth City Museum & Art Gallery
Studio Glass Now - British Artists in Glass, British Crafts Centre, London
1981
Jugs & Plates - British Crafts Centre, London
Around the Corner - British Artists in Glass, Touring Exhibition. Mappin Gallery Sheffield and Sunderland Arts Centre, Sunderland
Collections
2009
Large Boulder: Dan Klein & Alan J. Poole (Private Collection), National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh
2004
Mobile: Museum of Art, USA
2003
Pebble: Nature in Art Museum & Art Gallery,Gloucester, purchased by National Art Collection Fund, V&A and Nature in Art
2001
Laminated Pebble Form: Cowdy Gallery, Newent
1996
Bowl: Victoria and Albert Museum, London
1995
Bowl: Musée National De Céramique Sérves, France
Bowl: Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead
1994
Bowl: University of Edinburgh
1992
Bowl British Film Institute
Bowl: Ernst & Young Entertainment and Media Group
Bowl: Crafts Council Collection, London
1990
Bowl: Ulster Museum, Belfast, Ireland
1988
Bowl: Leicester County Museum
1987
Bowl: Association for Business Sponsorship for the Arts
Bowl: Hickson International
Bowl: Mont Blanc
Bowl: W.H.Smith & Son, England
1986
Bowl: Victoria and Albert Museum, London
1985
Bowl, Coburg Castle, West Germany
1984
Bowl: Broadfield House of Glass Museum Dudley, West Midlands
Bowl: Corning Museum of Glass, U.S.A.
1983
Bowl: Turner Collection, Sheffield University
1979
Bowl: Stourbridge College of Art (now university of Wolverhampton)
Bowl: Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield
Bowl: Dan Klein & Allan J Poole (Private Collection), London
Books
2008
Contemporary Glass, editor Blanche Craig, Black Dog Publishing
2006
British Glass Biennale
Stourbridge, England (catalogue)
2002
Graham McLaren, Studio Glass 1960 - 2000
1997
Keith Cummings, Technique of Kiln Formed Glass (updated from 1986)
1996
Peter Layton Glass Art
1991
S.K. Krantz, Contemporary Glass - A World Survey, Corning Museum Of Glass, U.S.A.
Martina Margetts (Edited), International Crafts, Thames & Hudson
1986
Peter Layton, British Studio Glass
Keith Cummings, Technique of Kiln Formed Glass
1983
Degree Show, Royal College of Art, London (catalogue)
1980
Keith Cummings, Technique of Glass Forming
Waldrich Verlag, Who's Who in Contemporary Art
Monica Petzal, Review of jugs and plates at the British Crafts Centre - Crafts 53
Articles
1997
The World of Interiors Antennea - Page 8
1996
Peter Layton British Studio Glass - The Glass Circle Journal No. 8
1994
Marina Vaizey, Review of Studio Glass Exhibition Crafts
rt & Decoration no. 325
1993
Review of British Artists In Glass - Crafts
National Arts Collections Fund Review
Winter Edition of Glass Magazine
1992
Art Aurea - Germany
1991
The Independent
1990
Short form, Herts and Crafts Case - Crafts 107
1986
Photograph in The Economist
1985
Corning Newglass Review - Neues Glass Number 2
Janet Barnes, Contemporary Glass, Rufford Craft Centre - Crafts 77
Tanya Harrod, Review Of Class Of '84, Coleridge - Crafts 72
Roundelay - House & Garden
New Glass Review - Neues Glass Number 2
1984
Tanya Harrod, Review Of British Studio Glass, Coleridge - Crafts 69
1983
J. Barnes & C. Allen, Directions - Neues Glass Number 4
Tanya Harrod, Careers in Glass - Crafts 62 1
Beryl Downing, Shopfront on Design - The Times
Forward, Dr. Lionel March. Graphis Press
1980
Monica Petzal, Review of jugs and plates at the British Crafts Centre - Crafts 53