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Past Events 

A Selection of Previous Glaas Events 

Villa Alba PowerPoint
Presentation
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2021 Glaas Inc
William Montgomery
Annual Lecture

 

BEACONS OF BEAUTY

LYON, COTTIER & CO’S STAINED-GLASS WINDOWS in SYDNEY and NEW SOUTH WALES
 

by

Dr Andrew Montana

Honorary Senior Research Fellow, the Australian National University

Establishing decorating firms in London and New York, the enterprising Glaswegian artist Daniel Cottier, co-founded the Australian firm, Lyon, Cottier & Co., in 1873 with a fellow stained glass artist John Lamb Lyon. With Cottier remaining in Britain, Lyon moved from Melbourne to Sydney with his family where there was little competition in stained glass work and a new rail network were connecting the inland towns to Sydney and encouraging the building of public, residential and church architecture. 

 

Opening the showroom in Sydney displaying domestic and church stained glass, Lyon showed modern and rich aesthetic styling not then seen before in the work of an Australian firm. This lecture reveals how Lyon, Cottier & Co. brought currents of the Aesthetic movement to Australia through its illustrated exploration of a number of the firm's stained-glass commissions in New South Wales between 1874 and the 1890s. 

 

Biographical note:

Dr Andrew Montana was a senior lecturer in art and design for almost twenty years. The author of books, chapters and articles, he engages with the intersection of art, architecture, design and the decorative arts in his ongoing research. 

Most recently, Dr Montana has contributed two chapters on Australia’s stained glass in Daniel Cottier: Designer, Decorator, Dealer, edited by Petra ten-Doesschate Chu and Max Donnelly with Andrew Montana and Suzanne Veldink, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, 2021.

GLAAS INC presents

ILLUMINANCE

a vision of the future through glass

Works/Price List here

MDW Glaas Inc Image A Vision for the Fut

When:

26.3.21 to 1.5.21

Where:

Australian Centre for Glass Design at Melbourne Polytechnic Prahran

140 High Street Windsor/Prahran

Opening times:

11am to 4pm on these days:

Friday 26.3

Saturday 27.3

Wednesday 31.3

Thursday 1.4

Saturday 3.4

Then:

Wednesdays to Saturdays from 7.4.21 until 1.5.21

                      

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This event is part of Melbourne Design Week 2021, an initiative of the Victorian Government in collaboration with the NGV

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GLAAS INC acknowledges the support of the following:

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