“We live in a society that sanctifies memory, keeping traces of each story and each object sometimes obsessively. My own work questions the notion of temporality: absence and displacement, identity and a sense of belonging. I chose to work in glass because of the wide range of lyrical messages it can convey and use a variety of techniques to express ideas which originate in a practical and poetic sense from its properties.”
Pippa Beveridge is a glass and mixed media artist with a BA in Landscape Architecture from Greenwich University and an MFA in the Theory and Practice of Art and Design in Architecture from the University of East London. She studied fine art at the Massana Art School in Barcelona and advanced techniques in glass at the Barcelona Glass Foundation, where she also taught.
She has lectured at colleges in the USA and Europe and organised international artists’ workshops in Barcelona and the USA. She was the director of the Syracuse University Abroad Visual Arts Programme for several years and has given master classes at the MusVerre, Sars-Poteries (France); Urban Glass and the Studio at Corning (USA); and the Glass Hub (UK).
Her work ranges from small sculptural pieces to large-scale installations and architectural glass. Architectural details, surface decoration, wallpapers and the natural world provide sources of inspiration.
Pippa has received a number of grants for curating and exhibiting her work abroad, and prizes, including the Jutta Cuny Franz Memorial New Talent Award. She spent ten weeks on an artist’s residency at Musverre, France culminating in a solo show. Her work is held in private and public collections, including Musverre, Sars-Poteries, the European Museum of Modern Glass, Rödental and the Museum of Contemporary Glass, Madrid.
Her commissions in glass include work for an exhibition by the Enric Miralles Practice and glass walls for an office in Barcelona. She is currently working on a project for the Scotland-based charity Pamis to create sites of memory and remembrance throughout Scotland.
A Selection of Solo Shows
2019 Murmur. Glasmuseet, Ebeltoft, Denmark.
2013 Lost & Found. Tassen Museum, Amsterdam.
2009 Rear Window, Museo de Arte en Vidrio, Madrid.
2008 The Custodian Of Memory, La Cripta del FAD, Barcelona.
A Selection of Group Shows
2023 Atrapar la llum, invited participant, Museu Maricel, Sitges, Spain.
2019 Inspired, juried show, London Glass Blowing, UK.
2017 British Glass Biennale, juried show Stourbridge, UK.
2016 European Glass Context, selected participant, Denmark.
Etienne Gallery, juried show, Netherlands.
2015 Lux Aeterna, International Glass Biennale, Strasbourg.
Omnia Vanitas, WCC-BF Gallery, juried show, Mons, Belgium.
2014 The Coburg Prize for Contemporary Glass, Germany.
Showcase, juried show, National Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK.
2013 Ancient Skill, Contemporary Artform, Blackwell House, UK.
2010 Inspired By, juried show, William Morris Gallery, London
Her work has featured in publications including International Glass Art by critic Richard Yelle (Schiffer), Glass and Print by Kevin Petrie (A&C Black) and Neues Glas, and New Glass Review. She is co-author of Warm Glass: A Complete Guide to Kiln-forming Techniques (Lark Books).