Peter Sutton
For me it is more about the effect than the material. Glass is the catalyst to make things happen. I like to work with the essential qualities of reflection, transmission and or refraction to create compositions.
In line with the nature of the medium, I create pieces that change – both depending on the light source and its direction, and the angle or distance from which the work is viewed.
In some attempt to aspire to a beauty and purity, I skirmish with geometric form. The cutting up of such a form and putting it back in a 3dimensional light conductor setting is a less pure transmission, although tantalising for the effect. I wish my pieces to move the viewer physically around while seeing.
Peter Sutton April 2010
Born 1967 Norwich
Education
1988-91 Swansea College, Architectural Stained Glass (4 distictions)
1986-87 Norwich school of Art
Awards
2004 Associate member of British Society of Master Glass Painters
1999 Member of Norwegian Crafts Council from 1999
1996 Honorary Freedom of the Worshipful Company of Glaziers and Painters of Glass
1996 Journeyman’s Award, Worshipful Company of Glaziers
1990 1st Prize, National Glaziers Competition
Solo Exhibitions
2009 “Beaming” Hå, Stavanger, Norway
2008 “Ray” Gallery Rica, Trondheim, Norway
2004 Nordisk kunsthandverk (crafts) Varberg Sweeden
2003 ”Synchrony,” Art museum, Namsos, Norway
2002 ”Windows,” Gallery North, Harstad, Norway
2001 ”Windows,” National Museum of Decorative Arts Trondheim, Norway
Group Exhibitions
2009 “09” Norwegian Arts Council, Oslo Art Museum 2008 “40cm 2” St Martins, London
2005 Nordic Arts and Crafts, Varberg, Sweeden
2004 ”Woven,” International Culture Center & Museum, Oslo, Norway
2004 Radøy Art Center, Radøy, Norway
2004 ”The National Trondheim Exhibition,” Norway
2003 ”New Members,”Trondheim Center for Contemporary Art, Norway
2002 ”Humour & Satire,” Gallery Innsikt, Møre og Romsdal, Norway
1997-99 Vega-Days, Vega, Norway
1992 “The Painter in Glass”, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, Wales
Jeanette Hayhurst Gallery, Kensington, London
“Decorative Arts Today”, Bonhams, Knightsbridge, London
1991 “New Designers”, Islington Design Centre
Commissions
2010 Lørenskog Culture House, Oslo, Norway
2009 St Olavs Hospital, Trondheim, Norway
2008 Nilsbyen Kindergarden, Trondheim, Norway
2007 Hoylandet Nursing Home, Norway
2006 Byasen School, Trondheim, Norway
2005 Millfield School, Design and Technology building, UK
2004 Namsos Nursing Home, Norway
Hordabø Church, Radøy, Norway
2003 Råkhaugen Nursing Home, Molde, Norway
2002 Brundalen School, Trondheim, Norway
2001 Haberdashers’ Hall, London, UK
2000 Sintef Industrial Management, design, Trondheim, Norway
Royal Glamorgan Hospital, Llantrisant, UK
1999 Justvik Church, Kristiansand, Norway
1997 Fishmongers’Hall, London Bridge, UK
1996 All Saints Church, South Ockenden, UK
1995 The Bedford School, Assembly Hall, Bedford, UK
Grants
2010 Norwegian Arts Council material grant
2004 Norwegian Arts Council material grant
2002 Norwegian Arts Council 1 year working grant
2001 Norwegian Arts Council 1 year working grant
2000 Trondheim City Council culture grant