Dale Chihuly – The World’s Foremost Glass Artist
Lecture on Monday 2nd October 2023 at 1:45PM
Lecturer: Charles Hajdamach
Venue: Larruperz Centre
American glass artist Dale Chihuly (born 1941) is the super-star of the glass world. With his passion for glass, his larger-than-life personality, his skills as a natural leader and educator, and his constant exploration of glass's luminous qualities and colour possibilities, he creates glass sculptures which are extravagant, colourful and spectacular.
Following two accidents he is no longer able to hold a blowing iron and now employs two glass teams to blow his visions from his spontaneous drawings, themselves works of art. His glass magic has transformed the studio glass movement and altered our visual perceptions of this extraordinary material forever.
Charles Hajdamach is a former Director of Broadfield House Glass Museum (1974-2003) and one of the top authorities on glass in the country. He is author of British Glass 1800-1914 (1991), 20th Century British Glass (2009) and contributor to numerous books and magazines.
Charles lectures internationally to glass museums and collector's societies. He is a Fellow of the Society of Glass Technology, and a member of the Arts Advisory Board at the National Glass Centre, Sunderland. He is also President of the Glass Association which he was instrumental in founding.