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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
   
Collection of Blanthorn Glass Art Pebbles A Blanthorn Glass Art Pebble Collection of Blanthorn Glass Art Pebbles
 
Architectural Commissions
2000: 16 Enamel painted glass panels with glass appliqué designed from images supplied by the children 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
1993: 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
 
Light Designed for Southampton Art Gallery Chandelier Commissioned by a Private Client A Presentation Bowl for the British Film Institute
 
Awards
1985: Coburg Second Glass Prize, Commendation
1983: Mathiledehoe Prize, Rosenthal, Germany
1983: Prize Corning Glass
1982: Royal College of Art minor travelling award to Outer Hebrides
1982: Worshipful Company of Glass Sellers of London
   
Detail of Blanthorn Pebble Collection of Blanthorn Glass Art Pebbles Collection of Blanthorn Glass Art Pebbles
 
Exhibitions
  For our upcoming exhibitions please see our galleries page
2007: London Art Fair 2006 - Adrian Sassoon with Clare Beck, Business Design Centre
2006: The International Art & Design Fair, Adrian Sassoons / Clare Beck, The Armory, New York
2006: British Glass Biennale 2006, Stourbridge, England (catalogue)
2006: International Ceramics Fair & Seminar, Park Lane Hotel, London
2006: London Art Fair 2006 - Adrian Sassoon with Clare Beck, Business Design Centre
2005: Cowdy Gallery Winter Collection, Newent
2005: The International Ceramics Fair & Seminar - Adrian Sassoon Stand, London
2005: London Art Fair 2005 - Adrian Sassoon Stand, Business Design Centre
2004: Focus Contemporary Applied Arts
2004: Cowdy Gallery Winter Collection, Newent
2004: The International Art & Design Fair 2004, Adrian Sassoons stand, New York
2004: The International Ceramics Fair - Adrian Sassoons stand, London
2004: Grosvenor House Art & Antiques Fair - C & L Burman (Works of Art) Ltd stand, London
2002: International Ceramics Fair - Adrian Sassoons stand, London
2002: Business Design Centre - Adrian Sassoons stand, London
2001: International Ceramics Fair - Adrian Sassoons stand, London
2001: Business Design Centre - Adrian Sassoons stand, London
2001: Cowdy Gallery
2001: Beadleston Gallery - New York
2001: Business Design Centre - Adrian Sassoons stand
2000: International Ceramics Fair - Adrian Sassoons stand, London
2000: Business Design Centre - Adrian Sassoons stand, London
2000: Showcase Exhibition at Contemporary Applied Arts
2000: Art 2000 Olympia - Adrian Sassoons stand
1999: International 20th Century Arts Fair, Armory, New York
Adrian Sassoons stand
1999: Work auctioned at Philip's - London
1999: International Ceramics Fair - Adrian Sassoons stand, London
1999: Olympia Art and Antiques - Adrian Sassoons stand
1999: Business Design Centre - Adrian Sassoons stand, London
1999: Oxford Gallery
1998: Edinburgh City Art Gallery
1998: National Glass Centre Sunderland
1998: International Ceramics Fair - Adrian Sassoons stand, London
1998: Olympia Art and Antiques - Adrian Sassoons stand
1998: Business Design Centre - Adrian Sassoons stand, London
1997: National Art Collectors Fund at Christies, London
1997: Works Gallery, Philadelphia, U.S.A
1997: International Ceramics Fair - Adrian Sassoons stand, London
1997: Olympia Art and Antiques - Adrian Sassoons stand
1997: Business Design Centre - Adrian Sassoons stand, London
1997: British Studio Glass Exhibition - Central Europe
1997: National Art Collectors Fund at Christies - London
1997: Works Gallery - Philadelphia U.S.A.
1996: S.O.F.A Miami and Chicago U.S.A. - Adrian Sassoons stand
1996: British Studio Glass Exhibition - Central Europe
1995: Garland of Glass, Cowdy Gallery - Newent
1995: Musée National De Céramique Sérves - France
1995: Michele Beiny Harkins & Adrian Sassoon - New York U. S. A.
1995: Art Glass Centre - Holland
1994: Summer Show, Cowdy Gallery - Newent
1994: Ideal Home, Galerie Art and Crafts Claude Andr
Brussels, Belgium
1994: Osiris Gallery - Belgium
1994: Gallery L. - Germany
1993: The Glass Show, Crafts Council Gallery - London
1991: Celebration of Glass, Cowdy Gallery - Newent
1991: European Glass Exhibition, ECTARC, Llangollen, Wales
1990: Takashimaya Tokyo Japan organised by Miharudo Gallery
and Martna Margets

Up to 1989 Exhibited regularly with Coleridge of Piccadilly, Highgate, and Edinburgh

1989: Miller Gallery U.S.A
1989: Liberty's London
1989: Gallery D'Amon, Paris, France
1989: International New Art Forms Exposition, Chicago, U.S.A.
1989: British Decorative Arts, Auction at Christies
1988: Braggiotti Gallery - Rotterdam, Netherlands
1988: Art Vision - Jedda, Saudi Arabia
1988: Craft and Folk Art Museum - Los Angeles, U.S.A.
1988: Habitat - Michigan, U.S.A.
1988: British Decorative Arts, Auction at Christies
1987: Hankyu Department Store - Osaka and Kyoto, Japan
1987: Kunst In Glas Galerien - Munich, West Germany
1987: Habitat - Michigan, U.S.A.
1987: The New Spirit: British Craft And Design, Crafts Council,
London And Touring
1986: British Decorative Arts, Auction At Christies
1986: Contemporary Art Fair - Olympia, London
1985: Clara Scremini Gallery - Paris, France
1985: Second Coburg Glass Prize - Coburg Castle, Germany
1985: Contemporary Art Fair - Olympia, London
1984: Broadfield House Glass Museum, Kingswinford
1984: Bristol Museum, Bristol
1984: Side Show (solo exhibition) - Coleridge of Piccadilly, London
1984: Black & White - British Crafts Centre, London
1984: Brighton Museum, Brighton and Pilkington Museum of Glass, St Helens
1984: Klein Contemporary Glass
1983: Arab Home Furnishing And Consumer Goods
Bahrain Exhibition Centre
1983: Rosenthal Studio Galerie. Essen
1983: Degree Show - Royal College of Art, London (catalogue)
1983: Summer Show - British Crafts Centre, London
1983: Class of '82 - Coleridge of Highgate, London
1983: Peterborough City Art Gallery, Peterborough
1983: Chelsea Crafts Fair (as Royal College of Art: Ceramics and Glass) = Crafts Council Exhibition, Chelsea Old Town Hall, London
1983: 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
1982: Group Show - Portsmouth City Museum & Art Gallery
1982: Studio Glass Now - British Artists in Glass, British Crafts Centre, London
1981: Jugs & Plates - British Crafts Centre, London
1981: Around the Corner - British Artists in Glass, Touring Exhibition. Mappin Gallery Sheffield and Sunderland Arts Centre, Sunderland
 
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Collections
2003: Pebble, Nature in Art Museum & Art Gallery - Gloucester UK
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
1995: Bowl, Shipley Art Gallery - Gateshead
1994: Bowl, University Of Edinburgh
1992: Bowl, British Film Institute
1992: Bowl, Ernst & Young Entertainment and Media Group
1992: 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
1987: Bowl, Hickson International
1987: Bowl, Mont Blanc
1987: 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
1984: Bowl, Corning Museum of Glass - U.S.A.
1983: Bowl, Turner Collection - Sheffield University
1979: Bowl, Stourbridge College of Art
(now university of Wolverhampton)
  Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield
  Dan Klein & Allan J Poole (Private Collection), London
 
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Books
2006: British Glass Biennale 2006, 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.
1991: Martina Margetts (Edited), International Crafts, Thames & Hudson
1986: Peter Layton, British Studio Glass
1986: Keith Cummings, Technique of Kiln Formed Glass
1983: Degree Show - Royal College of Art, London (catalogue)
1980: Keith Cummings Technique of Glass Forming
1980: Waldrich Verlag, Who's Who in Contemporary Art
1980:

Nov/Dec, Monica Petzal, Review of jugs and plates at the British Crafts Centre - Crafts 53

 
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Articles
1997: February, The World of Interiors Antennea - Page 8
1996: Peter Layton British Studio Glass - The Glass Circle Journal No. 8
1994: Jan / Feb, Marina Vaizey, Review of Studio Glass
Exhibition Crafts
1994: Art & Decoration no. 325
1993: Sept / Oct, Review of British Artists In Glass - Crafts
1993: December, National Arts Collections Fund Review
1993: Winter Edition of Glass Magazine
1992: January, Art Aurea - Germany
1991: 12th October, The Independent
1990: November/December, Short form, Herts and Crafts Case
Crafts 107
1986: Photograph in The Economist
1985: Nov/Dec, Corning Newglass Review - Neues Glass Number 2
1985: Nov/Dec, Janet Barnes, Contemporary Glass, Rufford Craft Centre
Crafts 77
1985: Jan/Feb, Tanya Harrod, Review Of Class Of '84, Coleridge
Crafts 72
1985: Roundelay - House & Garden
1985: New Glass Review - Neues Glass Number 2
1984: July/Aug, Tanya Harrod, Review Of British Studio Glass,
Coleridge - Crafts 69
1983: J. Barnes & C. Allen, Directions - Neues Glass Number 4
1983: May/June, Tanya Harrod, Careers in Glass - Crafts 62
1983: 26 March, Beryl Downing, Shopfront on Design - The Times
1983: Forward, Dr. Lionel March. Graphis Press. GB.
1980: Nov/Dec, Monica Petzal, Review of jugs and plates at the
British Crafts Centre Crafts 53