Reviving Craft brings contemporary Chinese craft to Somerset House
17 September 2026 • Mark Westall
More than 60 artists bring contemporary Chinese craft and design to Somerset House.
Tag: Glass
Seeing Through Glass
16 March 2022 • Paul Carey-Kent
Now the show in Leeds presents a 50-50 mixture of glass specialists and wider-ranging artists working in the material, all illuminatingly categorised by the material property foregrounded in the processes used. ‘SOLID’ features cast or moulded glass; ‘GAS’, sculptures made by blowing into the glass; ‘LIQUID’ the results of manipulating molten glass. Here’s one of each that order:
Art of Glass
22 December 2021 • Paul Carey-Kent
The old distinctions between ‘art’ and ‘craft’ have reduced sufficiently in recent years that ceramics and textiles can now be… Read More
Through a Glass, Clearly
8 May 2019 • Paul Carey-Kent
It’s hard, you might think, to get too excited about a glass of water. Yet not only did Michael Craig-Martin famously present such a glass as an oak tree, the subject of a simple glass without so much as a still life to complement it crops up pretty often in paintings.