Annual William Montgomery Lecture 2025. Looking into Stained Glass - What is the Future? Reflections of CEDAR Prest at 85 Cedar has been a consistent contributor to Australian stained glass since first discovering glass many decades ago, when the renaissance of glass as an expressive medium was in its infancy. She has been a driving force ever since - a pioneer, designer, maker, community artist, mentor and advocate. Now aged 85, she is keen to focus on the future of glass

Annual William Montgomery Lecture 2024. Dr Susan Kellett’s lecture reveals a man of extraordinary talent who drew on his experience of war, personal philosophy of art, and the Medieval customs of his forebears to produce a scheme of glass that not only challenged the Australian War Memorial Committee’s prevailing ideologies, but also transcends those commonly associated with commemoration. However, the most surprising element of the windows is the love story that they reveal

Annual William Montgomery Lecture 2023. Christian Waller was an exceptional and enigmatic woman and artist. The paucity of documentary records of her life and work has been an impediment to appreciating her work and understanding her as an artist. She was the only female professional stained glass artist in Australia from settlement to the 1970s, and the most original exponent in the country of leading trends in modernism and stained glass technique. Waller was a provincial g

Annual William Montgomery Lecture 2022. This lecture acknowledges the wide range of Australia’s stained glass, which encompasses work in churches, houses, and public buildings, but its particular focus is on windows in residences. Hidden from public view, some are highly distinguished artistically – all are historically and culturally significant, telling diverse stories of Australia and Australians at different times and places. As part of the lecture series named for Willia

Annual William Montgomery Lecture 2021. Sydney stained glass artists Lyon Cottier & Co. carried out many commissions in public, private and religious buildings in their 50 years of activity from 1873 to 1924. Prominent architects chose their work for Sydney’s GPO, Government House and Parliament House. Religious services were an important and frequent part of 19th-century spiritual and social life. Dr Andrew Montana examines Lyon Cottier's decoration in city and country churc

The artist who built a glass bridge from the Victorian to the Moderne. An informal lecture by Dr Bronwyn Hughes OAM on the life and career of William Montgomery, Melbourne’s leading stained glass artist from the 1880’s to the 1920’s. Australian society weathered boom, depression, recovery and war during those 40 years and Montgomery was one of few stained glass artists to survive through them all. It was not always easy, but his hundreds of extant windows attest to his abilit