About
Steven Newell was born in 1948. He attended both Kansas City Art Institute (1969) and Carnegie-Mellon University studying Ceramics and Glass in 1972. The same year he was offered and accepted a place at the Royal College of Art, London where he made London his base for more than 40 years.
In 1974 he joined The Glasshouse in Covent Garden, London later to become a Director in 1976.
In 1984 he establish a group workshop in Finsbury Park, London with fellow glass practioners and produce a wide range of work, with other glass artists and continued to independently produce unique handmade under his own name working with galleries
The use the techniques of glass blowing, sandblasting and kiln forming to create designs that range from the practical through to the unique.
Collaborations and partnerships
Glass production is an inherently collaborative medium. Steven has work very closely with other glass artist and technicians over the years. Key collaborations started at the Glasshouse house in covent garden and materialise when he establish Glassworks London Limited, in Finsbury Park with Cathrine Hough and Simon Moore. In 2000 Steven formed Art for Glass with Lindsay Henderson. Lindsay continues to be been a central to artistic development in Steven’s practice today.
Solo Exhibitions
1999 Barrett Marsden Gallery, London, UK
1998 Transparent Epic Retrospective, Nitsu, Japan*
1995 blås & knåda, Stockholm, Sweden*
1994 Contemporary Applied Arts, London, UK *
1993 Museum of Arts and Crafts, Tokyo, Japan*
1990 Galerie Majault, Paris, France
1980 Prescote Gallery, Banbury, Oxfordshire, UK*
All enquiries
Please contact for any commissions or collaboration and enquires.
info@stevennewell.com
