Collect 2024

I am delighted to have been selected to exhibit with Design-Nation at Collect International Art Fair at Somerset House, 1st-3rd March 2024.

My profile is featured in Design-Nation’s Collect 2024 showcase:

https://designnationshowcase.co.uk/http-designnationshowcase-co-uk-collect-2024/participants/susan-kinley

I will be showing a new body of work that brings two strands of my practice together, kilnformed glass and enamels on copper. They will reflect my ongoing fascination with the marks, patterns and traces to be found of ancient sites and landscapes, often only visible when viewed from above, in a certain light.

I’m really looking forward to being part of Collect’s 20th anniversary celebrations!

Tickets are available from: https://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/collect-fair/book-tickets

Barrows [Amber & Faience], enamels, copper & kilnformed glass, 32cm x 32cm

Cairns - Enamels, copper, kilnformed glass, 32cm x 32cm

MAKE Southwest Summer Show

I am showing two framed and layered glass wall assemblages in the Make Southwest Summer Exhibition, which has just opened in Bovey Tracey. On the edge of Dartmoor, this lovely, light and airy gallery will be showing a range of selected contemporary makers and artists across the summer.

16th July - 8th October 2022

Earth/Sea/Sky at London Glassblowing Gallery

In it’s 25th year, the Contemporary Glass Society celebrates at London Glassblowing Gallery, Bermondsey street, London. Earth/Sea/Sky features 40 glass artists, both international and from the UK, and is curated by Cathryn Shilling. I am very pleased to be showing three vertical glass panels from my Naw Voz series.

1st - 23rd July 2022

Naw Voz vertical wall installation, 30cm x 112cm, waterjet cut Bullseye glass with photography and glass powders.

Open Studios Cornwall 2022

After a gap of a year and a half, the time for Open Studios has come around again! I will be opening my studio in Mylor Bridge, Cornwall, from this coming Saturday 28th May to Sunday 5th June [closed Monday 23rd & Tuesday 24th]. Opening times are 11am - 5pm, Sundays 11am - 4pm.

I will have a range of glass wall panels, enamels and paperworks available to view and for purchase, and will be offering a studio discount on some pieces for Open Studios week only. If in Cornwall, come and say hello - it’s a great opportunity to talk about the ideas behind my work, material processes and new developments.

More information and directions can be found at: https://openstudioscornwall.co.uk

Please get in touch if you would like to arrange an alternative visiting time - 07500 337399

Kenidjack glass assemblages - Kilnformed and layered glass with glass powders and photography, 42cm x 38cm x 5cm

£750

Sky/Sea/Moor [West Penwith] - Waterjet cut glass, glass powders, photography, 30cm x 38cm, floated off wall to cast shadows.

£375

Glass wall micro landscapes and panels available from £50

Materials Matter at MAKE Southwest, 4th December 2021 - 13th March 2022

It’s the last few days to catch this exhibition of 10 makers and artists from the Design - Nation Devon and Cornwall group. I am showing a recent series of assembled copper panels, layered with glass enamels to build translucence through several firings. Some contain partly hidden imagery of the stones of ancient sites in Cornwall and Wales. I have been thinking of the pages of illuminated manuscripts, held open in museums at one viewing page. A book can take us to a completely different place or landscape; an opening out of horizons beyond the structure of the page, where scale is changed.

Open Book, 28cm x 41cm, glass enamels, copper, photographic image.

Seeing The Landscape - extended to 2022

I am very pleased to be working with Penwith Landscape Partnership on the Seeing The Landscape project. Next year I will be running family art workshops that celebrate the wonderful landscape of West Cornwall. Over the October half term we had two very enjoyable art walks with small groups of adults and children up to Tregeseal stone circle and holed stones on Truthwall Common, near St Just. In sun, wind, rain and fog some great colour and texture studies were made in the sketchbooks given to all participants.

At Tregeseal stone circle

Autumn colours on Truthwall Common

Open Studios Cornwall 2020

I will be opening my studio in Mylor Bridge, near Falmouth, by appointment only from Saturday 29th August to Sunday 5th September 2020. I will be showing a range of wall mounted glass pieces and framed Japanese paper lasercut panels, available at studio prices for this period.

Please contact me to book a time, and for directions. A virtual tour of my studio, and more details, can be found at:

https://www.openstudioscornwall.co.uk/artist/susan-kinley-2/

Fired and layered glass wall panels at different sizes, studio prices from £50 [10cm - 15cm in diameter]

Micro landscapes - small shaped glass wall pieces drawn from ancient sites on the Isles of Scilly.

Left - 15cm x 6cm, £50, right 15cm x 12cm, £90, all with transparent wall mounts.

Lordenshawe Gold Disc - Dyed and printed lasercut Japanese Kozo papers, framed, 50cm x 50cm, £650 [for Open Studio period]

Modern Creatives - Seasalt Feature

I’m delighted that the Seasalt team came to my studio to interview me for their feature Modern Creatives, focusing on artists and makers in Cornwall. The resulting film, interview and images show my working process and discuss the places I work from, with a focus on the waterjet cut and kilnformed glass wall panels and installations.

Collect Open 2019

I am very pleased to announce that I have been selected to show new work at Collect Open 2019. Curated by the Crafts Council at Saatchi Gallery, London, Collect Open provides a platform for 15 individual artists to show ambitious and conceptual craft led installations. My participation has been supported by a grant from Arts Council England.

I will be showing my new glass wall installation, West South West. Made of waterjet cut and kilnformed Bullseye glass, this new work reflects my research into the Bronze Age landscape of West Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. Each shaped panel is an individual window into remote and ancient places, recording changes over time.

www.collect2019.org.uk

Individual glass discs 25cm x 25cm

Oval glass panel from West South West wall installation, 31cm x 38cm