Sweet William II

2024

Enamelled and painted bottom layer. Painted, gilded and part glazed top layer.

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One of four panels created for the BSMGP exhibition celebrating William Morris. All reflecting the death of stained glass (currently an endangered heritage craft) and the evil of capitalism. William Morris would approve. 

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Beyond the broken gothic windows, the mass-produced glass walls of the towers of Mammon loom. Although glass remains a prominent feature of modern architecture, the traditional craft of glazing that Morris championed is threatened. But there is hope: a few glass fragments remain on the gothic windows. The lead resembles figures emerging, reaching up towards a stained glass rebirth.​

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