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I make kiln formed glass objects, playing with gravity in the kiln. Manipulating mass, heat, colour and time I aim to create complex, elusive work that has intense colour and pattern which reacts to the light it is placed in. I use opaque glass powders to construct my work because of its varying translucency as the form elongates in the kiln. I finish the kiln fired pieces using many cold working processes to shape and mark the glass including sandblasting, hand lapping and diamond point and wheel engraving.

I’ve worked with glass for the past 23 years, graduating from Central St Martin’s School of Art & Design in London with Distinction studying Postgraduate Certificate in Glass & Architecture, before relocating to Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland in 2005. I have exhibited at Collect (Crafts Council) shown by Craft Scotland and Contemporary Applied Arts (CAA), and with London Glassblowing, Bullseye Projects in Portland, Bellevue Arts Museum in Washington, SOFA Chicago and Pittsburgh Glass Centre among many others during my career.                                                 

Amanda Simmons Corsock, Dumfries and Galloway

Portraits by Lydia Smith in Dundee @misslydiaphoto (commissioned by Fife Contemporary for the exhibition Hag.....see news for more details.

 

Send a message via the contact form at the bottom of the page or:

ajsimmonsglass@gmail.com 

@amandasimmonsglass on Instagram


Current Galleries

 

ARTIST PRACTICE

2025      

Hag. Knowledge, Power and Alchemy Through Craft. Dunfermline Libraries with Fife Contemporary, curated by Kate Pickering

Glass, Perth Art Gallery, Perth, Scotland

 

2024      

We Are Crow, Solo Show at The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh

Planet Earth, London Glassblowing

Residency at Void Art Centre, Derry, N.Ireland

Selected for British Glass Biennale at the International Festival of Glass

 

2023      

Summer Solstice, London Glassblowing    

It’s Becoming a Pattern – Pittsburgh Glass Centre, PA, USA

Miniatures, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh              

Selection Panel for Spring Fling Open Studios, Dumfries and Galloway           

Residency at Pilchuck Glass School

 

2021      

Two Hemispheres, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh

The Summer Show, London Glassblowing 

Of the Earth: Contemporary Ceramics and Glass at The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Summer Show, The Whitehouse Gallery, Kirkcudbright

Future Heritage, Decorex, London

 

2020   

Residency at Pittsburgh Glass Center, USA

Modern Makers, Project Lead Artist, Upland CIC, D&G

 

2019   

British Glass Biennale, International Festival of Glass, Stourbridge

COLLECT with Contemporary Applied Arts, London

Residency at Blue Dog Glass, Melbourne, Australia

New British Glass, Vessel Gallery, London

 

2018   

COLLECT with Craft Scotland, Saatchi Gallery, London

 

2017   

The Scottish Gallery, Outer Spaces, Solo Show Edinburgh, July

Bullseye Gallery Bay Area Material Language, USA, May        

Visual Arts & Craft Awards, Scotland, Selection Panel Member

 

2016   

Bullseye Gallery, New York Accumulations, with Catherine Newell

Modern Masters International Trade Fair, Munich

The Scottish Gallery, Connections Contemporary Glass Society

Etienne Gallery, Oisterwijk, Holland

Glasmuseum Alter Hof Herding, Ernsting-Stiftung New Acquisitions

Open Project Funding Grant from Creative Scotland for solo show

Powderhall Bronze Foundry Award for Sculpture, Visual Arts Scotland

 

2015   

British Glass Biennale at the International Festival of Glass, Stourbridge

Touring exhibition in Canada Naked Craft –showing at Art Gallery of Burlington, Centre Materia, Quebec and Art Gallery of Nova Scotia

Glass Weekend '15 with Morgan Glass Gallery, Wheaton Arts New Jersey, USA

Lyth Arts Centre Residency with the Environmental Research Institute

 

2014    

COLLECT, Contemporary Applied Arts, Crafts Council, London

London Glassblowing Gallery, Gravity, Focus show

Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery, Pittsburgh, USA Synthesis II

Bullseye Gallery USA Evolve Touring to San Francisco, Pittsburgh Glass Centre and Bellevue Arts Museum

SOFA Chicago 2014 with Craft Scotland

Collect 2014, Booth Talk at Contemporary Applied Arts with Alice Kettle

Speaker at the Lecture series with Jeff Zimmer and Keeryong Choi, SOFA Chicago

 

2013   

London Glassblowing Gallery Coalesce, Duo show

Contemporary Applied Arts Focus Show, London

SOFA Chicago 2013 with Craft Scotland, USASOFA Chicago

Panel discussion for Lecture Series ‘Scotland: Crafting a renaissance

 

Previous years 2012 to 2007:          

Emerge 2012, Bullseye Gallery, Portland, USA

Open Eye Gallery, Glass focus show, Edinburgh 2012

COLLECT, Crafts Council, Saatchi Gallery, London 2011

Origin: The London Craft Fair 2009 and 2010

Spotlight Show at Blackwell Arts & Crafts House Six of One, 2008

Spring Fling Open Studios, Dumfries & Galloway 2007- 2019