Approved: 16.08.2006

Dr Helen Slater Stokes

Artist, Lecturer / academic, Maker, Researcher

Approved: 16.08.2006

Dr Helen Slater Stokes gained an M.A. from the Royal College of Art (RCA) in 1996 and recently went back to the RCA to complete a PhD by practice in 2021. She set up her artistic glass practice in 1999 and since then has exhibited nationally and internationally.

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    Artist Statement

    Dr Helen Slater Stokes gained an M.A. from the Royal College of Art (RCA) in 1996 and recently went back to the RCA to complete a PhD by practice in 2021. She set up her artistic glass practice in 1999 and since then has exhibited nationally and internationally.

    In addition, Helen lectures and has presented research papers at numerous conferences, most recently the International Festival of Glass 2022, in the UK, and the Glass Art Society (GAS) Conference 2019, in Florida. Her work has been selected to be shown at the International KOGEI Award 2020, Toyama, Japan, The Bulgarian Glass Biennale 2019, and British Glass Biennale 2017, 2019 and 2022. Currently she is showing her, bronze exhibition award winning piece, in the USA touring Bullseye Projects exhibition: Tg Transitions in Kiln-Glass. Her recent work has featured within the ‘New Glass Review 41, publication by Corning Museum of Glass and she has work in both public and private collections.

    CV & Education

    Glass Artist and Lecturer; Helen graduated from The Royal College of Art, with a master’s degree in 3D Design: Glass & Ceramics, in 1996 and since then has been lecturing and making glass sculpture from her workshop in the Cotswolds.

    She completed a part-time PhD by practice, in 2021, at The Royal College of Art, London.

     

    Professional Qualifications

    • 2021 PhD in Glass Research at The Royal College of Art, London

    • 2007 Cert Ed - University of Bedfordshire

    • 1994 - 1996 M.A. Degree - The Royal College of Art, London

    • 1991 - 1994 BA (Hons) Glass & Ceramics - Sunderland University

     

    Lecturing & Studio Experience

    Sept 2022 - 2026 - External Examiner - The University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Swansea

    Sept 2013 – to the Present day – Senior Associate Lecturer – De Montfort University, Leicester

    Sept 2009 – July 2017 – Senior Lecturer – Oxford Brookes University, Oxford

    Sept 2006 - 2009 - Associate Lecturer - Oxford Brookes University

    Sept 2000 - 2009 - Part-time Lecturer - Oxford & Cherwell Valley College, Oxford

    Jan 1997 - Feb 1998 - Studio Assistant - Rebecca Newnham, Glass Artist

    Jan 1995 - Sept 1996 - Part-time Lecturer - Middlesex University

     

    Exhibitions

    2022 The Horbowy International Glass Competition, The Giant Mountains Museum, Jelenia Góra & the E. Geppert Academy of Art & Design, Wroclaw, Poland

    2023 Tg: Transitions in Kiln-Glass, Bullseye Glass Projects, The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, USA

    2022-2023 Tg: Transitions in Kiln-Glass, Bullseye Glass Projects, The Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pittsburgh, USA

    2022 Tg: Transitions in Kiln-Glass, Bullseye Glass Projects, The Bellevue Arts Centre, Washington, USA

    2022 Collect 2022, Somerset House, London, with Design Nation

    2021 The International KOGEI Award Exhibition, Toyama Prefectural Museum of art & Design, Japan

    2021 Op Art/Glass, The Imagine Museum, St, Petersburg, Florida USA

    2019 The British Glass Biennale 2019, The International Festival of Glass, Stourbridge

    2019 Graduate Show 2019 – The Royal College of Art, London

    2018 Work in Progress Show, The Royal College of Art, London

    2018 London Design Week, Contemporary Applied Arts, London

    2018 Glass, Catherine Hammond Gallery, Cork, Ireland

    2018 Winter, The Pyramid Gallery, York

    2017 The British Glass Biennale 2017, The International Festival of Glass, Stourbridge

    2017 Fresh Art, The Hadfield Gallery, Cheltenham

    2017 Work in Progress Show, The Royal College of Art, London

    2016 Solo Show, Art Jericho, Oxford

    2016 Affordable Art Fair, London

    2016 Catherine Hammond Gallery, Cork

    2014 Work in Progress show, The Royal College of Art

    2013 ‘White Out’ The Contemporary Applied Arts, London

    2012 International Contemporary Glass, The Gallery, Redchurch Street, London

    2011 Selected Member of the Contemporary Applied Arts, London

    2010 Blast, Zest Gallery, London

    2010 Remarkable Glass, The Contemporary Applied Arts, London

    2010 The Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, London

    2009 Six @ Potato Town, The Potato Town Gallery, Oxfordshire

    2009 Melting Point, The Pyramid Gallery, York

    2009 Fresh Air, Quenington Sculpture Trust

    2008 Artspace, The Barn Galleries, Henley on Thames

    2007 Contemporary Glass, The Pyramid Gallery, York

    2006 Fairy Tales, The Exchange Theatre, Manchester

    2005 Studio Glass, The Cowdy Gallery, Glos

    2004 Contemporary Glass, The Church Gallery, Dartmoor

    2003 Frosted The Jelly Leg’d Chicken Gallery, Reading

    2002 The Open, The Chapel Gallery, Lancashire

    2001 Winners, Rowe & More, Westminster, London

    1999 Selected, The Stroud House Gallery, Stroud

    1998 Hanover Arts Fair, Hanover, Germany

    1997 Hamburg Collectors Fair, Hamburg, Germany

    1997 Two Man Show, Gallery ‘L’, Hamburg, Germany

    1996 Venice Aperto Vetro, Venice Biennale, Venetian Gallery, Murano, Italy

     Awards

    1997 Charlie Bray Award for Glasswork.

    2021 Second Place, Contemporary Glass Society and Glass Seller Guild, Graduate Review 2021.

    2022 Bronze Award, Bullseye Projects, Tg: Transitions in Kiln-Glass Exhibition, Bellevue Arts Museum, USA.

    Collections

    Woodstock Museum Art Collection, Oxfordshire, UK

    Imagine Museum Collection, Florida, USA

    Consultancy

    Public Commissions

    2021 Community Foundation for Calderdale Awards 2021.

    2000 - 2009 'The Public Servant of the Year Awards' - Annual Commission sponsored by The Cabinet Office, CIPFA and Public Finance.

    2000 - 2009 'The Reporting & Accountability Awards' - Annual Commission. Sponsored by CIPFA and Price Waterhouse Coopers.

    2008 - 'Outdoor Courtyard Sculpture' - Commission for the Radcliffe Hospital Trust, Churchill Hospital, Oxford

    2007 - 'Oxfordshire & the South East Bioscience Awards' - Annual Commission by OBN