Collect 2020, Our Story

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North Lands Creative is an international centre dedicated to the study and development of glass as an art form and fosters a strong community among the participating artists and audiences.

The charity offers both self-motivated and structured opportunities for artists requiring often massive
and complex facilities for their work, and looking to further engage with their fellow peers.
As a national charity North Lands Creative encourages an appreciation and understanding of contemporary glass. With the help of our supporters we raise funds to provide opportunity for artistic innovation and potential. As a not for profit our income goes directly in to helping build a stronger glass community which benefits many artists and crafts makers globally.

We are proud to celebrate the outstanding British and international creativity in glass. All the artists at Collect have a connection to North Lands Alastair Pilkington Studio, and the work has been inspired by their immersive time on the artist-in-residence program or as a collaborative process on our associate artist projects.

North Lands Creative is distinguished for its expertise in the field of contemporary glass. For more than 24 years our organisation has represented distinguished master crafts people and artists selling to private collectors and museums alongside facilitating private commissions.

In 2020 the NLC gallery represented the work of Martin Janecký (Czech), Emma Baker (UK), Laura Quinn (Ireland), Alberto Lago (Italy), Alexandra Mureșan (Romania) and James Maskrey (UK). This film introduces each of these Artists and gives a narrative to the journey towards Collect 2020.

The history of glass is full of ‘origin stories’: stories of how and where glass began. North Lands Creative at Collect 2020 takes this as a starting-pointing for the six artists exhibiting, each exploring a fundamental component of contemporary glass blowing.

The Future of Making – Tradition to Liberation and how the artists have each broken the mould by creating ground-breaking work which sees traditional techniques evolving. How does the glass community start to create a new language and support the freedom of artists, makers and curators to break the conventions around tradition.

Guiding the creative process for glass blowing, North Lands Creative uses the studio and gallery as a freespace for people to gather and exchange, with new networks emerging, new possibilities taking shape and achieve a global dialogue that can weave through gender, social politics and sustainability.

The exhibition was playful, witty and provocative, Origins asks us to look again at the myths, conventions and histories that guide how glass is created and experienced.

This film was produced by North Lands Creative.

Director & Film Thomas Hogben.

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