An evening of lectures on Wednesday 7th November 2012
Andrea McKay
International Art Projects Adviser & Co-ordinator for Derix Glasstudios, Germany
(5:45pm)
Architectural art glass in public and ecclesiastical settings
Andrea McKay has been working with Derix Glasstudios for over seven years. She is responsible for projects in the UK, Benelux and Scandinavia. Projects she has managed range from small-scale to large-scale public art. Andrea describes herself as the link between the artist and the studio.
Clifford Rainey
Professor of Fine Art and Chair of the Glass Program at California College of the Arts, USA
(6:30pm)
Clifford Rainey is an artist whose work has been exhibited internationally for thirty-five years. Born in Whitehead, Co. Antrim in 1948, he later received a Master of Arts from the Royal College of Art, London in 1973 and later lectured there for seven years. Principally a sculptor who employs cast glass and drawing as primary methodologies, his work is interdisciplinary, incorporating a wide spectrum of materials and processes.
Rainey is a passionate traveller and his work is full of references to the things he has seen and experienced. Celtic mythologies, classical Greek architecture, the blue of the Turkish Aegean, Globalization and the iconic American Coca-Cola bottle, the red of the African earth, the human figure combined with cultural diversity all intermingle to provide sculptural imagery charged with emotion.
Rainey’s work has been exhibited internationally including the Ulster Museum in Northern Ireland, The Victoria and Albert Museum in London, The Kunstmuseum in Dusseldorf, Germany, The Millennium Museum in Beijing, China, and the Museo de Arts Contemporaneo in Monterrey, Mexico. His work is in the permanent collections of numerous museums including: The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland, The DeYoung Museum, San Francisco, California, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Museum of Art and Design, New York, The Fine Arts Museum of Boston, and The Montreal Museum of Fine Art, Canada. He is presently a Professor of Fine Art and Chair of the Glass Program at The California College of the Arts. He is a recipient of the Virginia A. Groot Foundation Award, Chicago, and the 2009 UrbanGlass Outstanding Achievement Award, New York.