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Glass artist Liam Reeves wows students with glass goblet demo
Friday, 27 February, 2015 — Renowned glass artist Liam Reeves visited our glass workshop in January to give a talk and demo to our students, showing them how he makes his signature glass goblets.
<p><strong>Renowned glass artist <a href="http://www.liamreeves.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Liam Reeves</a> visited our glass workshop in January to give a talk and demo to our students, showing them how he makes his signature goblets.</strong></p>
<p>Glass students gathered round as Liam worked tirelessly for several hours to create a beautiful goblet that is now on display in the glassblowing studio in our <a href="https://www.aup.ac.uk/stories/360-virtual-tour-glass" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Craft, Design and Fabrication Workshops.</a><br /></p>
<p>Liam Reeves has been making glass professionally since 1998 and currently holds the position of hot-glass technician at the prestigious Royal College of Art in London.</p>
<p>While at the RCA Liam discovered a passion for investigating pivotal techniques from glassblowing’s two-millennia of rich history.</p>
<p>From the mould blowing of ancient Rome to the complex goblet-making techniques of Renaissance Venice and onto the finesse of factory manufactured glass after the Industrial revolution.</p>
<p>He has demonstrated these techniques widely for public events, universities and museums including the <a href="http://www.vam.ac.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Victoria & Albert Museum</a> in London and now for us during his workshop.</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.aup.ac.uk/courses/undergraduate/ba-hons-craft-material-practices" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Find out more about our BA (Hons) Glass programme</a><a href="https://cms.plymouthart.ac.uk/courses/ba-hons-illustration/"></a></li></ul>
