CV

KAREN BROWNING MRSS

Awards
GAS Green Award for Sustainable Glass, 2024
British Glass Biennale 2022, Best in Show
Arts Council England, DYCP funding, 2021
Long-listed Aesthetica Art Prize 2021& 2022
Elected Member, Royal Society of Sculptors, 2015
Daisy 2000, Northlands Creative Glass, 2014
Best British Stand in Show, BBC Travel Show Live, 1992

Museum Collections
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Liuli Museum Shanghai

Exhibited Work
Matriarchs of Mastery, Habatat Galleries, Royal Oak, MI, Feb 2025
London Art Fair 2025, with GalleryTEN
Glass Coast Weekend 2025, Sarasota, Florida, Habatat Galleries.
British Glass Biennale 2024, Stourbridge
New Horizons, Museum of Glass Stourbridge, 2024
Wells Art Contemporary, Wells Cathedral 2024
Glass Biennial of Charleroi, Belgium, May 2024
COLLECT OPEN@Collect Art Fair 2024, London
COLLECT Art Fair,Vessel Gallery, 2024
Glass Coast Weekend, Habatat Gallery, Florida.
International Biennale of Glass Bulgaria, National Gallery, Sofia, 2023
Glasshaus XVI, Parndon Mill, 2023
COLLECT Art Fair, Northlands Creative, 2023, London
Gather 2023, London Glassblowing Gallery, London
British Glass Biennale 2022, 2015, 2010, 2008 Stourbridge
Aesthetica Art Prize – Future Now, York 2022
A Thread of Light- three generations of kiln cast glass artists, Stroud, 2022
Aesthetica Art Prize 2021 – Future Now, York May 2021
Liuli Museum, Shanghai, China, Sept 2020-March 2021
@ Fiddleford Manor, May 2021
Ireland Glass Biennale, Dublin, Ireland, 2019
Glasrijk, Tubbergen, Netherlands, 2019
Liuli Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, 2019-20
Bruntnell-Astley Gallery, Stourbridge, Aug-Sept 2019
Never Done, Oriel Linda Norris, Wales, March 2019
@ Fiddleford Manor, installation, May 2018
Collect 2018, Saatchi Gallery, London, Feb 2018
Celebrating 80, London Glassblowing Gallery, June 2017
Notojima glass Art Museum, Japan, 2016-17
International Glass Exhibition, Kanazawa, Japan, 2016-17
Lie of the Land, Northlands Glass Centre, Sept 2015, photography
Essence, London Glassblowing Gallery, August 2015
Vessel Gallery, July-August, 2015
Glass Glamour, Quennington, June 2015
British Glass Biennale, 2015
The National Gallery of Lyme Regis, DAW, 2014
The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, 2014
London Glass Blowing Gallery, 2014 to present
Texture, Light, Form, DAW. 2012
Church of the Holy Trinity, Dorset, 2012
Prussia Cove, Cornwall, 2011
Brunel Shed Stroud, 2010
British Glass Biennale, 2010
Timeout, Bristol, 2010
Festival of Bryan, Dorset 2010
Colour Vision,The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, 2009
Larmer Tree Gardens , installation, 2009
Harris Interiors, solo show, 2008
British Glass Biennale, Stourbridge, 2008
Harris Interiors, Poole, Dorset, 2004-2013
R.K.Burt Gallery London, Glass, August 2003
Cascade Conference, Light installation, University of Bath (July 2001)
Regeneration, photography and print, Red Lion, Shepton Mallet (June 99)
Casting the Light, Light Installation,Wells Cathedral (Oct 98)
Queens Park Open Gardens, site specific sculpture, London (June 98)
The Canons, Mitcham sky blue light installation (June 98)
Ourselves in Place installation light sculpture, Black Square Gallery, Wells
Potsdamerstrasse, 63/1004 Light installation (Jan 98)
Off the Wall, Sherborne Contemporary Arts, Sherborne House (May 97)
Natural light experiments, Skoki, Poland (May 97)
Nelson Hospital, Wimbledon (Jan 97)
Proposals for Wimbledon Library, in situ (Jan 97)
Exhibition installation for Peugeot, Mechelen, Belgium (Sept 95)
Exhibition stand for Miele, Brussels, Belgium (Jul 95)
Sint Peters Abdij, Gent Belgium (Jul 94)
Onze Lieven Vrouw Instituut, Gent, Belgium (Jul 94)
Mall Galleries, ICA, London (Jul 93)
Het Balkon, Gent, Belgium (Jun 92)
Koninklijke Academie voor Schonen Kunst, Gent, Belgium (May 92)
Motor Show, NEC, Birmingham (Nov 92)

Publications
British Glass Biennale and International Bead Biennale 2024, catalogue
British Glass Biennale and International Bead Biennale 2022, catalogue
Future Now – Aesthetica Art Prize 2022
A Thread of Light, catalogue
Future Now- Aesthetica Art Prize 2021
British Glass Biennale 2015, catalogue
British Glass Biennale 2010, catalogue
British Glass Biennale 2008, catalogue.
Cascade – creativity across science art dyslexia education, ed. Mo Kiziewicz,
University of Bath,2007

Commissions
Private commissions regularly 1992-present
Larmer Tree Festival installation, 2009
Festival of Bryan, installation, 2010
Cascade conference installation, 2007

Qualifications
MA Glass, Swansea Institute of Higher Education, 2003
MA Site Specific Sculpture, Wimbledon School of Art, 1998
BA(hons) Architecture, Oxford Brookes University,1996
HND Spatial Design, Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design,1993
OND Spatial Design, Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design, 1989

Research
Turning Electricity into Light. masterclass Wayne Strattman and Bryn Reeves, 2022
Neon Snakes, masterclass Steve Fitch and Richard Wheater, 2021
Lie of the Land, masterclass Northlands Glass, with Helen Maurer, 2014
Neon masterclass with Wayne Stratman, 2006
MA Dissertation Glass Light Space
MA Dissertation Light as a creative medium in contemporary art and architecture
BA(Hons) Dissertation Site specificity as link between art and architecture

Experience (Glass)
Studio Assistant to Colin Reid, Stroud. 2004- present.
Studio Assistant to Henry Haig, Dorset. 2003-2004

Teaching Experience
Teaching masterclass cast glass at Northlands glass Centre, 2022
T.A. to Colin Reid on Masterclass at Northlands Glass Centre, 2016
5 day cold working masterclass, 2011
Technical Asssistant to Colin Reid, on various glass casting workshops, 2004-present
Architectural History Lecturer, FdSc Stonemasonry, Weymouth College.
(2004-2006)
Visiting Tutor :
BA(hons) Architectural Studies, Oxford Brookes University (1997)