Member Masterclass: Foam Glass

Dis­cov­er the alchemy of foam glass with award-win­n­ing glass artist Joshua Ker­ley in this exper­i­ment­al masterclass.

Through the addi­tion of foam­ing agents, glass will froth and bubble dur­ing kiln fir­ing, pro­du­cing out­comes that are oth­er­worldly and un-glass-like in appear­ance. Through play­ful explor­a­tion you’ll ques­tion tra­di­tion­al per­cep­tions of this mater­i­al, using the com­bin­a­tion of foam and sol­id glass to pro­duce a vari­ety of mater­i­al samples in vari­ous colourways. 

Joshua Ker­ley is an award-win­n­ing artist, design­er and edu­cat­or spe­cial­ising in kiln-glass. He holds a BA in Con­tem­por­ary Crafts from Fal­mouth Uni­ver­sity and an MA in Ceram­ics & Glass from the Roy­al Col­lege of Art, Lon­don, and his work has fea­tured in inter­na­tion­al exhib­i­tions, includ­ing the Brit­ish Glass Bien­nale 2026, and pub­lic­a­tions Crafts Magazine and Neues Glas. He was a Seni­or Lec­turer and Act­ing Pro­gramme Dir­ect­or at the Uni­ver­sity for the Cre­at­ive Arts (2019 – 2026), and con­tin­ues to teach inter­na­tion­ally while work­ing from his stu­dio in rur­al Wilt­shire, UK.

From Monday 16^th Novem­ber to Wed­nes­day 25^th Novem­ber, Joshua will work in our Strat­ford work­shop as our Maker in Res­id­ence. Find out more about his res­id­ency here.

Import­ant inform­a­tion about our tick­et bal­lot for this event:

We are using a bal­lot sys­tem to book tick­ets for these mas­ter­classes. The bal­lot is open for a lim­ited time: from Tues­day 20^th Octo­ber until 23:59pm on Sunday, 1^st Novem­ber. Enter­ing the bal­lot means that you’ve entered into a draw for the oppor­tun­ity to book a tick­et. From Monday, 2^nd Novem­bers onwards, suc­cess­ful entrants will be auto­mat­ic­ally booked onto the event and sent an event con­firm­a­tion email. If you can no longer attend please can­cel your place so someone else can be booked on. Unfor­tu­nately, the bal­lot may be over­sub­scribed, so enter­ing it doesn’t guar­an­tee that you’ll be offered tick­ets. Once tick­ets are fully booked, we will noti­fy every­one and offer the oppor­tun­ity to join the wait­ing list.

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