International GAS Member Exhibition 2026
The International GAS Member Exhibition makes its debut at the International Festival of Glass in 2026, marking an exciting new addition to the Festival’s programme of world-class exhibitions. Open to all Members and Student Members of the Glass Art Society, the exhibition brings together a diverse and vibrant collection of glass art from across the globe, showcasing the extraordinary range of styles, techniques, and artistic visions that exist within the international glass community. Held at The World of Glass in St Helens, the exhibition sits alongside the British Glass Biennale and the International Bead and Jewellery Biennale, to form the most ambitious programme of glass art exhibitions the Festival has ever presented.
The 2026 exhibition is a juried show, with submissions assessed by a distinguished international panel of glass artists, curators, and specialists. Selected works reflect the truly global nature of the GAS membership, drawing together artists from across the world at different stages of their careers, united by their passion for glass as a creative medium. Following the Festival, a selection of works will travel to London Glassblowing, giving the exhibition an extended reach and introducing the work of GAS members to new audiences in the English capital.
All participating artists will have the chance to be selected for the prestigious ‘Best in Show’ award, a £3,500 prize. The winner will be announced at a special opening ceremony in St Helens in August. A full list of the participating artists in this year’s Members exhibition can be found below. Details on their individual pieces will be shared closer to the exhibition opening date in August. Information about the jurors who selected the exhibition — and the knowledge and perspectives they brought to the selection process — can also be found below.
Whether you are a longstanding admirer of glass art or discovering it for the first time, we hope this exhibition will inspire you, and that we will see you at The World of Glass in St Helens this August.
Participating Artists
Jeanne-Sophie Aas
Cristine Baena
Kalina Bańka Kulka
Mauro Bonaventura
Heike Brachlow
Julia Ciułek
Brent Cole
Kristie Crewe
Hamish Donaldson
Yanjie Gao
Marta Gibiete
Helen Grierson
Jennifer Halvorson
Alli Hoag
Mark Hursty
Henry Jackson-Spieker
Jani Kaski
Natsuki Katsukawa
Morten Klitgaard
Odeta Natalia Komorowska
Marzena Krzeminska- Baluch
Mudai Li
Yuanyang Liu
Susan Madacsi
Fahan McDonagh
Shandra McLane
Sina Mendler
Carol Milne
Sadhbh Mowlds
Kamila Mróz
Harsh Nowlakha
Brenda Page
Grisel Pereyra
Bertha Picallo
Claudia E Ponce de Leon C
Opal Seabrook
Alise Stopina
Alison Stott
Jano Thebault
Michael Tracy
Miles van Rensselaer
Emma Varga
John Webster
Anduriel Widmark
Claire Williamson
Cheryl Wilson-Smith
KT Yun
About the Jury
Jabari Owens-Bailey is a multifaceted arts administrator, curator, writer, educator, and artist who serves as Curatorial Education Program Manager at the Museum of Glass. He holds a BFA from Corcoran College of Art and Design and an MFA from School of Visual Arts, and is a former Curatorial Fellow at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts. His interdisciplinary practice spans curating, educational programming, public engagement, and community-centered arts initiatives, with a focus on bridging academic inquiry and hands-on creativity while advancing equity and inclusion in museum spaces.
His curatorial work has been recognized with the Washington Museum Association’s Award of Excellence for A Two-Way Mirror: Double Consciousness in Contemporary Glass by Black Artists, a groundbreaking exhibition exploring Black identity through contemporary glass. In addition to hosting the Museum of Glass podcast and developing public educational content, Owens-Bailey has curated exhibitions including Walter Lieberman: Are You the Guy Who Does the Chalk Drawings in the Hot Shop? and Unprecedented: The Inaugural Postmark Biennial. He currently serves on the board of the Washington Museum Association, where he continues to champion representation, healing, and creative expression through the arts.
Tim Rawlinson studied Architecture at University of Brighton before earning a degree in Ceramics and Glass from Buckinghamshire New University in 2011. After exhibiting his graduate work at New Designers, he was invited by Peter Layton to join London Glassblowing, where he established and managed the cold studio. Since then, Rawlinson has become an internationally recognized glass artist, exhibiting widely and supplying major galleries in the United States, with recent showings in Florida and New York City.
Rawlinson’s 2023 solo exhibition, Sculpting Light, at London Glassblowing was both a critical and commercial success, and his work has been featured annually at Collect Art Fair since 2015. His artwork has also been included in prestigious European exhibitions, including the Coburg Prize for Contemporary Glass and the International Glass Prize. He received the People’s Prize at the British Glass Biennale in 2022 and was runner-up for the Glass Sellers’ Prize in 2024.
Erika Tada received her MFA from Rochester Institute of Technology in 2005 and a PhD from Tokyo University of the Arts in 2012. Working primarily in glass, her practice explores personal history and everyday scenes, expanding sculptural expression into conceptual 3D and 4D approaches within contemporary art. Her work has been recognized internationally, including being named Best Debut Artist at SOFA Chicago by Vetro Magazine and winning the international student exhibition at the Glass Art Society Conference in Australia. In 2016, she served as a juror for the Stanislav Libenský Award in the Czech Republic. Her residencies include The Corning Museum of Glass, Pilchuck Glass School, Museum of Glass, and Hastings College, and she received the John H. Hauberg Fellowship from Pilchuck in 2022.
An active educator and arts leader, Tada has taught at institutions across the United States and Japan, including Rochester Institute of Technology, Pilchuck Glass School, the Corning Museum of Glass, and Tokyo University of the Arts. She currently serves on the faculty of Tamagawa University, Joshibi University of Art and Design, and Musashino Art University. In addition to her teaching, she serves on the Board of Directors of the Association for Glass Art Studies and has previously served on the boards of the Japan Glass Artcrafts Association (2022–2025) and the Glass Art Society (2021–2024).
