Alan Wright Stained Glass

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Status:
Self-Employed 'Designer/Maker in Architectural Stained Glass. Work to  commission; newly designed windows.

Aims:
To further develop fine public, church and private stained glass work with self-development through drawing and painting.

Education &
Qualifications: 
   
HND 'Architectural Stained Glass' (1st, Distinction) 1988 West Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education, Swansea, 1985-88

Post-Graduate Research: 'The Life and Work of Leonard Walker, R.I. (1877-1964), Painter, Educator & Stained Glass Artist' West Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education, 1988-91

Degree, Fine Art Course, BA (Hons) Painting 2.2 Bristol Polytechnic 1977-80.

Main Works: Public and Church
    • Horizontal window in multi-faith meeting room for The Retreat, hospital for mental health, York
    • Four: Mary and Child. Also Cross, Alpha & Omega, for Holy Redeemer Church, Hollington, Sussex
    • Heraldic Panel (Richard III), All Saints Chapel, York Minster
    •  "Life is Eternal" window for Salehurst Church, East Sussex  (inspired by William Penn & William Blake)
    • Millennium Window, Church Of St. John The Baptist,  Westfield E..Sussex  (Symbolic lanscape treatment)
    • Millennium Panel for Fishermen's Museum, Hastings, East Sussex
    • St. John the Baptist & Christ  window, (figurative) Church Of St. John The Baptist, Sedlescombe, Sussex
    • St. George window for church of St Therese, Hornscross Church,  East Sussex
    • Millennium Window for Rosehill School, Royal Tunbridge Wells (Design concept: Elizabeth Hunt)
    • Round Window for Holland Road Baptist Church, Hove, Sussex (Design concept: David Johns)
    • Two: Charles Wright Memorial and Sanctuary Guild Window, St Helen's Church Ore, Hastings, E. Sussex
    • Round window for St Mary“s Island School, Chatham, Kent
    • Spring window for Conquest Hospital, Hastings, East Sussex
    Private
    • Two windows for a stone tower, Sussex (Life of a Silk-Worm; Daniel & the Lion)
    • Many windows in St. Benedicts Victorian Bed and Breakfast, St. Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex
    • Large staircase window, St Leonards-on-Sea (based on 'Bayeux Tapestry')
    • Celtic-inspired imagery for nine windows in Architect designed house on the South Downs, Sussex
    • Front door top light and side panels to private residence, Lingfield, West Sussex
    • Fourteen fanlight roundels and two panels, Albany, Piccadilly, London (neo-classical imagery)
    • Entrance door panels for Victorian house, Cranbrook, Kent (based on imagery from 'Ishtar Gate')
    • Other private works in Britain and abroad

    Restoration &
    Conservation

    • Restoration of 27 panels, The Croft, Hastings (painted/stained birds, part conservation / part replicas)
    • Hastings Museum and Art Gallery; Durbar Hall, (restoration of Indian style windows from 1880“s)
    • Restoration and conservation of ancient vernacular glass for Paul Reed Historic Building Consevation
    • Restoration and replicas for 'Grey Owl' film (Richard Attenborough Productions)
    • Restoration of Victorian stained glass for churches in E. Sussex area, including: Holy Trinity, Hastings, St Mary-in-the-Castle Arts Centre, Hastings,  and St. Mary  Magdene“s Greek Orthodox Church, St.Leonards -on-Sea (both previously Anglican)
    • Fanlight in Matthew Boulton Museum, Soho House, Birmingham, conserved and restored painted and stained elements (in collaboration with John Sambrook, fanlight maker and Penelope Winton, stained glass conservator)
    • 'Devron Green Antiques' Pantiles, Tunbridge Wells; restoration of five large stained glass windows
    Teaching:
    Tutor (part time) Stained Glass Workshop (initiated), Hastings College of Arts and Technology, 1992-99

    Awards & Competitions:
    Awarded Arthur Evans Travel Scholarship (Worshipful Company of Glaziers) for tour of Poland, 1989
    Finalist (Commendation) Howard Martin Design Award W.G.I.H.E. 1988
    Finalist: Glaziers Company Competition, 'Big Bang', 1987 (Sample panel: Swansea, collection of West Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education, Architectural Stained Glass department)
    Finalist: Hetley, Hartley Wood Competition; Stained Glass for Museum of the Moving Image, 1986 (Sample Panel: private collection)

    Exhibitions:
    D. G. Rossetti  and E. Siddal  Exhibition, St. Clements Church, Hastings,  (roundel to poem), 2010
    “Light and Life“ solo retrospective and version of windows for “The Retreat“, Arts Forum Hastings, 2009
    Jack-in-the Green Exhibition. Arts Forum,Hastings 2009 (three stained glass panels of foliate heads)
    Arts Forum members Exhibition Stained glass window, (Alpha for Holy Reemer church Hollington ), 2007
    The Beacon, Hastings: Drawings & piantings from the clothed figure, 2006
    Hastings Museum and Art Gallery. Coastal Currents Exhibition: design for Fisherman's Museum, 1999
    Coastal Currents: Open Studios, 1999
    Riviera Gallery, Hastings: 'Moves in Black and White' (Kiln fired glass)1994; 'Life Force' (Life Drawings), 1994; 'Riviera Logo' Theme (Stained Glass), 1993; 'In Life Group' (Life Drawings), 1992; 
    Stables Theatre Gallery, Hastings: 'Hastings Landscapes & Other Themes' (Paintings, drawings & glass), 1989


    Membership  of Organisations:
    Member of “Soco“, (South Coast Artists) from 2008
    Member of “The Arts Forum“ from  2007
    Member of 'The Guild of Sussex Craftsmen', 1993-1999

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