Approved: 13.01.2017

Douglas Hogg

Artist, Lecturer / academic, Maker

Approved: 13.01.2017

My artworks are mainly one-off public or privately commissioned site-specific stained and architectural glass installations, murals and structures.   Materials used cover a variety of flat and processed glasses often in combination with other elements.   The techniques I can draw from spread across a wide range of activity including the use of paints, stains, enamels, lustres, gilding, acid etching, sandblasting, screen-print, airbrush, cold processes and heat-forming.   Many of my projects are achieved in studios abroad dedicated for the purpose of assisting artists with their work.  A great exchange of artists from all parts of the world pass through these doors to accomplish their many and varied projects.  My approach is exploratory and experimental.   Unique and original works of both internal and external applications have been achieved by closely liaising with clients who include private individuals, architects, designers, city councils etc.   Each project brings with it the clear vision and original thought which is a marker of my distinctive style and approach.  Engaging with an idea which at best is supported by a well-informed and trusting client - this is most important - is equally valuable to myself as having brought my own Muse on into new pastures, fresh, worthy, derivative only of my own evolving aspirations in the restless fields of constant search. 

Read more ...

  • Location: Gordon, Scotland

Artist Statement

My artworks are mainly one-off public or privately commissioned site-specific stained and architectural glass installations, murals and structures.   Materials used cover a variety of flat and processed glasses often in combination with other elements.   The techniques I can draw from spread across a wide range of activity including the use of paints, stains, enamels, lustres, gilding, acid etching, sandblasting, screen-print, airbrush, cold processes and heat-forming.   Many of my projects are achieved in studios abroad dedicated for the purpose of assisting artists with their work.  A great exchange of artists from all parts of the world pass through these doors to accomplish their many and varied projects.  My approach is exploratory and experimental.   Unique and original works of both internal and external applications have been achieved by closely liaising with clients who include private individuals, architects, designers, city councils etc.   Each project brings with it the clear vision and original thought which is a marker of my distinctive style and approach.  Engaging with an idea which at best is supported by a well-informed and trusting client - this is most important - is equally valuable to myself as having brought my own Muse on into new pastures, fresh, worthy, derivative only of my own evolving aspirations in the restless fields of constant search. 

I look back at the work of my tutors and the work of their tutors and wistfully consider my own progress in terms of a 20th C lineage.  I inherit a skeleton which I clothe with my own mantle.  Art can be taught in a shed…

CV & Education

Born Edinburgh 1948.  Studied at Edinburgh College of Art 1966-1970, post-graduate study 1971, awards and bursaries 1972.   Head of stained/architectural glass degree course at ECA 1979-2000.   Fellow of the British Society of Master Glass Painters, London.   External examiner at University of Wales 2002-2005.   Chair of judging panel and seminar for annual national ‘Stevens’ competition, Worshipful Company of Glaziers and Painters of Glass, London (2003-2014)

Activities/Exhibitions

2016       Short-listed for a new window at Glasgow Cathedral     

2016       Lecture: A 20c lineage: my work in context, for Year of Innovation, Architecture and Design

2016       Lumieres du Monde, Centre Internacionale du Vitrail, Chartres, France

2014       Lecture: the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Window, Worshipful Company of Glaziers, London       

2014       One of 2 artists finally short-listed for OBE centenary window, St Paul’s Cathedral, London         

2013       Lecture and seminar to staff and PG students at St Andrew’s University, Institute for

              Theology, Imagination and the Arts (ITIA)           

2012       Glass Games, Swansea Museum and Art Gallery, Wales                   

2011       Delivered a paper on personal project innovations at international conference, Belgium

2007       Sculpture Exhibition, Botanic Gardens, Dublin

2005       Munchener Seccession, nine international artists, Munich, London

2005       Delivered lecture at international conference, Reykjavik, Iceland     

2003       Past and Present Futures, one-man show, GlasKunst Galerie, Paderborn, Germany

1999       Group show, Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyoto, Japan

1998       Auf der Suche nach dem Licht der Welt, private collection touring Europe. (UK 1999, 2000)

1997       Glass, Light and Space, British Crafts Council Gallery, London.  Toured UK 1998             

               Lecture tours in Poland - 1993,1997

               Occasional exhibitor at Royal Scottish Academy and RSW

 

Commissioned Work

2016       Memorial artwork to north aisle, St Columba’s Blackhall, Edinburgh

2016       Work incorporated into Library Dome, University of Wales 

2012       400 years, centenary installation to south wall, Dirleton Kirk, East Lothian 

2012       HM the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Window, The Queen’s Chapel of the Savoy, London

2012       Wall installation and co-ordinated glass-wall artwork, St Aidan’s, Broughty Ferry, Dundee

2011       3-part artwork, front door, entrance area, wall poem, Abbey Church, North Berwick 

2009      Sandblasted glass wall and 4 bonded windows, Dean Parish Church, Edinburgh

2008       Wall-mounted composite installation, Edinburgh City Council Chambers, Edinburgh   

2008       Installation of nine freestanding units in historic glass-house, Glasgow Botanic Garden

2005       Large entrance screen and 2 windows, St Stephen’s Comely Bank Church, Edinburgh 

2004      2-part glass installation in reception area, Baillie Gifford Offices, Edinburgh

2003      Raasay Stone - gallery screen artwork, Craigmillar Park Church, Edinburgh

2001     Two large stained and painted windows St Philip’s Church, Joppa, Edinburgh (Saltire 

             Award)

Awards

2016      Recognition nationally by the Radcliffe Trust for contribution to Art and Architecture.

2008      Installed as a Freeman of the City of London

2001      Saltire Society  “Art in Architecture”

 

Books

2016     "Lumiere du Monde”, Chartres, France, 2016  (French, German, English)

2006     “Contemporary Stained Glass Artists” – Kate Baden-Fuller, publisher Blacks

2005     “Broken Glass – Glas in Kunst und Architektur” (German/Dutch only), publisher Wienand

1999     “Glass:  an inspirational portfolio” – Jera May Morton, publisher Watson Guptill, New York

1990     “The Beauty of Stained Glass” – Patrick Reyntiens, publisher Herbert Press

1985      A Guide to Stained Glass in Britain – Painton Cowen, publisher Michael Joseph

 

Catalogues

“Glass games”, British Society of Master Glass Painters, Swansea 2012

“40cm2”, British Society of Master Glass Painters, London 2008

“30cm2”, British Society of Master Glass Painters, London 2004

“Das Farbige Licht” 2001

 Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyoto, Japan 1999

“Glass Light and Space” British Crafts Council, London 1997

“New British Glass” Centre du Vitrail, France 1984

 

Articles have appeared in a number of national and international publications