AUSTRALIA'S STAINED GLASS: fine art, decorative art or just plain trade? with Bronwyn Hughes

Australia's Stained Glass: fine art, decorative art or just plain trade? with Bronwyn Hughes

Tuesday 19 June 2012, 10.15 am to 11.45 am, $30

Australia’s stained glass had humble beginnings as a small additional strand to plumbing, glazing and paper-hanging firms. Stained glass grew with the colony to become a significant ornament to permanent settlement, in Gothic Revival churches, stately homes and grand public buildings. This talk will focus on a selection of intriguing examples to be seen in and around Melbourne, and what they reveal about the architecture, economics and culture of their time.

Bronwyn Hughes is an art historian specialising in stained glass and consultant to heritage architects and organisations. Since completing her PhD on Anglo-Australian stained-glass artist, William Montgomery, she has been compiling and editing the first encyclopaedia of Australia’s stained glass makers and researching stained glass war memorials.

Welcome window at ‘Cliveden’, now in the Cliveden Room at the Hilton on the Park Hotel, Wellington Parade, East Melbourne