Events

Lectures

Annual Lecture

'The King's Glass' by Dr Carola Hicks
17 July 2008 5.00 pm St Ethelburga's Church Bishopsgate, London
The untold story of the stained glass of Kings' College, Cambridge
Tickets £5

Exhibitions

Summer Exhibition - 'Alhambra'

24th May - 8 July
For its forthcoming Summer Exhibition, The Stained Glass Museum is showcasing the work of stained glass artist Nour el Huda Awad. Huda draws inspiration for her work from Islamic pattern-making that includes both geometric and floral designs. The links with Islamic architecture are particularly strong: the mosaics, lettering, geometric and floral forms are her inspiration and starting point of many of her geometric glass pieces.

The flowers that appear in several of her panels spring from her own response to the beauty of the natural world. Sometimes the buds and leaves appear as wreaths or arabesques, sometimes as individual flowers creating a particular composition.

Born in the Sudan she emigrated with her family to Saudi Arabia and lived briefly in the USA before coming to the UK to study Art, first at Cheltenham College of Art and then at Swansea. In 2002, she took a 2 year MA Glass Studies course at the University of Wales in Swansea. She continues her search for a language in glass that conveys the beauty of Islamic imagery in contemporary terms. She now lives in Wales, celebrating the beauty of the flora to be found there in the exquisite embroidery of her glass hangings.

Susan Mathews, Curator of the Stained Glass Museum says
"This delicious collection of Islamic decorative imagery will captivate all who come to see it."

Admission to the Exhibition, which runs from the 7th June to the 12th July is Free.

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