Philippa Beveridge MRSS

Philippa Beveridge Bio 2024

“We live in a society that sanctifies memory, keeping traces of each story and each object sometimes obsessively. My own work questions the notion of temporality: absence and displacement, identity and a sense of belonging. I chose to work in glass because of the wide range of lyrical messages it can convey and use a variety of techniques to express ideas which originate in a practical and poetic sense from its properties.”

I am a glass and mixed media artist with a BA in Landscape Architecture from Greenwich University and an MFA in the Theory and Practice of Art and Design in Architecture from the University of East London. I moved to Barcelona in 1988 and studied at the Massana College of Fine Art and the Barcelona Glass Foundation. For more than two decades I ran my own studio, La Ventana Indiscreta, where I worked on architectural commissions, sculpture and installations in glass. I returned to London in 2017 and currently have a studio at Deptford Foundry. My studies in landscape architecture have been a constant influence on my practice as a glass artist and educator, in particular with relation to site-specific projects. My work encompasses a wide range of skills, from making prototypes and moulds, to kiln-forming, lost wax, cold-working, surface decoration, printing techniques and photography.

Architectural details, surface decoration, wallpapers and the natural world provide sources of inspiration and I am drawn to the melancholy and beauty of cemeteries, which chime with the aesthetics and concepts behind my work.

I have received a number of grants for curating and exhibiting work in the UK and abroad, as well as prizes, including the Jutta Cuny Franz Memorial New Talent Award. 

I am currently collaborating on a project for the Scotland-based charity Pamis to create sites of memory and remembrance throughout Scotland which consists of a series of waymarkers incorporating sculptural glass elements and carved stone.