Amanda Glanville – Maker of Tiny Glass Stuff
Media: Glass
Exhibition and News
Thur 22 May – Sat 1 Jun Hay Festival
Fri 6 – Sun 8 June Broadway Festival
Fri 20 – Sun 22 June Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair, Newcastle on Tyne
Sat 12 – 13 July Clare Priory Craft Fair, Suffolk
Sat 2 – Sun 3 Aug Art in the Park, Leamington
Sat 16 – Sun 17 Aug Art in the Pen, Skipton
Sat 13 – Sun 14 Sept Wirksworth Art Trail, Derbyshire
Sat 20 – Sun 21 Sept Melbourne Art and Architecture Trail, Derbyshire
Friday 3 October – Wed 12 November
The Corner Of Your Eye
Headline Exhibition at the Gallery at the Guild, Chipping Campden
Fri 10 – Sun 12 Oct Farnham Maltings Festival of Crafts
TBC Fri 17 – Sun 19 Oct Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair, Manchester
TBC Sat 25 – Sun 26 Oct Saltaire Makers Fair, Yorkshire
TBC Fri 21 – Sun 23 Nov Sparkle Festive Fair, Teddington, London
Sat 29 – Sun 30 Nov Blackthorpe Barn Arts And Crafts Fair, Bury St Edmunds
Fri 5 – Sun 7 Dec Compton Verney Gift Fair, Warwickshire
Sat 13 – Sun 14 Dec Blackthorpe Barn Arts And Crafts Fair, Bury St Edmunds
Biography
Amanda is born and bred in Coventry and has spent her working life in the performing and visual arts.
She is one of a very small number of lamp work Glass Makers who regularly exhibit at the UK’s leading selected Craft and Maker Events. She specialises in miniature pieces and is on a mission to reinvent the idea of little glass animals for the 21st Century. She has been working for just over 30 years and has a distinctive style that has wide appeal to all ages with collectability and whimsy at its heart.
A mainstay of her practice has always been in-person events where she can enthuse with other fans of the small. There have been such varied appearances as Art In Action (selected demonstrator 3 years), Bovey Tracey, Edinburgh Festival, WOMAD, Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair, Farnham Maltings, The Hay Festival, Landmark Arts Centre London plus many art trails including Brighton, Saltaire, Derbyshire, Oxford and on home turf in Warwickshire.
She has developed the exhibition side of her work more recently, creating a gleeful ‘Tiny Glass Sweetshop’ window installation for Saltaire Arts Trail in 2023 (which also appeared at Earlsdon Library for Warwickshire Open Studios in 2024 ) and initiated a collaboration between herself, a photographer and an illustrator for Coventry City of Culture 2021. ‘Coventry: Lost Found Imagined’ was a trail of 30 mixed media pieces in Holy Trinity Church Broadgate and celebrated her home town and provoked debate about how cities change over time.
Lockdown work involved making 400 tiny glass Coronaviruses, and the original was acquired by the Science Museum. London for their Covid 19 Collection for the Nation.
Her Great Glass Advent Calendar is a much anticipated event on social media since 2016 and several die hard collectors now have their very own Advent Calendars of her pieces.
She is a Artist Member of The Gallery at the Guild in Chipping Campden, a high quality co-operative based in this pretty Cotswold village.