CV
Plummet. Photo: Rob Page
CARRIE FERTIG CV
Solo Exhibitions
2020 Le Sirenuse, Sound 2020, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland
2019 Forgiveness, Inverness Museum and Art Gallery, Inverness, Scotland
2019 Forgiveness, The Thurso Gallery, Thurso, Scotland
2018-2019 Forgiveness, National Glass Centre, Sunderland, England
2018-2019 Ausklingen (Fade Away), Veste Coburg, Coburg, Germany
2011-2012 Homing, Chichester Cathedral, Chichester, England
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Hidden Floors, Scotland Re:Design, V&A Dundee, Scotland
2023 Royal Scottish Academy Annual Open Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland
2023 Applied Arts Scotland, Makers Offerings, Custom Lane, Edinburgh, Scotland
2023 Ireland Glass Biennale, Coach House, Dublin Castle, Dublin, Ireland
2022 The Coburg Prize, Veste Coburg and European Museum of Modern Glass, Coburg, Germany
2022 Collaborations, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, England
2019-2020 Ireland Glass Biennale, Coach House, Dublin Castle, Dublin, Ireland
2019 British Glass Biennale, Ruskin Glass Centre, Stourbridge, England
2018 Loud and Clear, The Harley Gallery, Worksop, England
2018 Open: SSA/VAS Together 2018, Craft Scotland Celebrates Glass, invited artist, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland
2017 Lampwork, European Museum for Modern Glass, Rödental, Germany
2017 British Glass Biennale, Ruskin Glass Centre, Stourbridge, England
2017 Summa, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland
2017 London Design Fair with Craft Scotland, London, England
2016 Transitions Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
2016 Contemporary Glass Society at Etienne Gallery, Oisterwijk, Netherlands
2016 Connections: 20 Years of North Lands Creative Glass, Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
2015 Royal Scottish Academy Open Exhibition, Edinburgh, Scotland
2015 SOFA Chicago with Craft Scotland
2015 Lie of the Land, North Lands Creative Glass, Lybster, Scotland
2015 British Glass Biennale, Ruskin Glass Centre, Stourbridge, England
2014-2015 North Lands Creative Glass, National Glass Centre, Sunderland, England
2014 Coburg Prize Exhibition, Veste Coburg and European Museum of Modern Glass, Coburg, Germany
2014 FET-ART: ICT & Art Connect so far: elements to orient the future, FOAM, Brussels, Belgium,
with Dave Murray-Rust
2013-2016 Real to Reel: Film as Material in Making, British Crafts Council touring exhibition
2013 New Glass Ancient Skill, Contemporary Artform, Blackwell House, Boweness-on-Windermere, England
2012 British Glass Biennale, Ruskin Glass Centre, Stourbridge, England
2011 50 Years of British Studio Glass, European Museum for Modern Glass, Rödental, Germany
2011 Trove: 32nd Annual Exhibition of the Scottish Glass Society, Perth Museum and Art Gallery, Perth, Scotland
2011-2012 Breath Taking: Revealing a New Wave in British Glass Blowing, British Crafts Council touring exhibition
2010 British Glass Biennale, Ruskin Glass Centre, Stourbridge, England
2010 Vitreous North, Timespan, Helmsdale, Scotland
2010 Recollect, Koukan Gallery, London
2009-2010 Migrate: 30th Anniversary of the Scottish Glass Society: England: Broadfield House Museum, Kingswinford; Scotland: Iona Gallery, Kingussie; St. Fergus Gallery, Wick, Inverness Museum & Art Gallery
2009 Recollect, Koukan Gallery, Lotus Foundation, London, England
2009 SOFA, NY, Zest Gallery (London), Park Avenue Armory, NYC, USA
2008 Highland Glass Connections, Curator: Dan Klein, Browns Gallery, Tain, Scotland
2008 British Glass Biennale, Ruskin Glass Centre, Stourbridge, England
2007 Pilchuck Gallery, Faculty Exhibition, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA. USA
2007 Three Irons and a Glass Rod: Group Exhibition, North Lands Creative Glass, Lybster, Scotland
2006 British Glass Biennale, Ruskin Glass Centre, Stourbridge, England
Residencies
2021 DISTANCE Residency, remote, Applied Arts Scotland VR residency
2021 The Barn, Banchory, Scotland, UNFIX Residency
2020 Space/Time, Magnetic North, remote, Edinburgh, Scotland
2020 Yaddo, Performance Art Residency, recipient of the 2020 Jane Adams Wait Residency, Saratoga Springs, New York
2016 Royal Scottish Academy, Residencies for Scotland; Hospitalfield Arts, Arbroath; North Lands Creative Glass, Lybster; Stills, Edinburgh, Scotland
2014 Lyth Art Centre, Caithness, Scotland, Creative Scotland Creative Futures Residency
2014 ICT/ART Connect, sponsored by Black Cube Collective and the European Commission
2014 European Museum of Modern Glass, Rödental, Germany
2014 Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh
2013 Rochester Institute of Technology, School for American Crafts, Rochester, New York
2011 Chichester Cathedral / West Dean College
2009 Artist in Residence in Flameworking, University of Sunderland, England
2009 AA2A Artists Access to Art Colleges Scheme, Glass, Flameworking, University of Sunderland, England
2007 North Lands Creative Glass, Lybster, Scotland
Selected Awards/Competitions
2023 Creative Scotland Open Fund, Health of the Sublime in the Mearns
2022 Creative Scotland Open Fund, Health of the Sublime in the Mearns
2022 VACMA Visual Artist and Craft Maker Awards
2021 Digital Pivot Creative Scotland
2021 Curator Space Bursary
2020 a-n Artist Bursary 2020
2019 Inches Carr Craft Bursary
2018 Powderhall Bronze Foundry Award, Open: Society of Scottish Artists/Visual Arts Scotland. Together 2018
2015 Open Project Funding Grant, Creative Scotland
2015 Royal Scottish Academy, Residencies for Scotland Bursary
2014 Hope Scott Trust
2013 Professional Development Grant, Creative Scotland
2011 Best Creative Campaign of 2011: Art. Glass Wings for Chichester. Crowdfunding website IndieGoGo
2010 Arts Trust Scotland
2010 Glass Manufacturers Educational Trust
2009 Professional Development Grant, Scottish Arts Council
2008 Joint Winner People's Prize, British Glass Biennale, Ruskin Glass Centre, Stourbridge, England
2008 Makers Award, Hi-Arts, Scottish Arts Council and Highland and Islands Enterprise
2007 Overall Prize, Pearson's Prize, Cardiff, Wales
Performance Art:
2023 Ferry Passage, Wee Gaitherin’, Number 44, Stonehaven, Scotland
2023 Circular Hackathon Costume Slam, Custom Lane, Edinburgh, Applied Arts Scotland/Creative Scotland
2021 Plummet, UNFIX Festival
2018 Letting Go, Opening performance for Forgiveness, National Glass Centre, Sunderland, England
2016 Torcher Chamber Arkestra, mac Birmingham, Birmingham, England, curated by Craftspace
2015 Flameworking interactive performance, Dorchester Abbey, Dorchester Festival, Dorchester-on-Thames, England
2014 Le Sirenuse, Lyth Art Centre, Caithness, Scotland, with Stuart Brown and Alistair MacDonald
2014 Flames and Frequencies: performance for glass percussion and fire, Veste Coburg, Coburg, Germany, with Peter Ferry and Alistair MacDonald.
2014 Flames and Frequencies: performance for glass percussion and fire, European Museum of Modern Glass, Rödental, Germany, with Peter Ferry and Dr. Alistair MacDonald.
2014 Flames and Frequencies: performance for glass percussion and fire, Perth Museum and Art Gallery, Perth Scotland, with Stuart Brown and Rick Bamford
2013 Flames and Frequencies: performance for glass percussion and fire, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY, with Peter Ferry, Adam Maalouf and Dr. Alistair MacDonald, Royal Scottish Conservatoire.
2013 Control, Imagine RIT, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York
2012 Conductor, Torcher Chamber Arkestra performance, Torcher Tailor, International Festival of Glass, Stourbridge, England
2011 Flameworking interactive performance, Chichester Cathedral, Chichester, England
2011 Flameworking interactive performance, West Dean College, Chichester, England
2010 Founder and Chief Conductor, Torcher Chamber Arkestra, Collaborative flamework performance company, 1st performance, International Festival of Glass, Ruskin Glass Centre, Stourbridge, England
2010 Flameworking interactive performance, “Through a Glass Darkly”, Timespan, Helmsdale, Scotland
Broadcast
2022 Applied Arts Scotland, Writing Successful Proposals, May 30th, 2022
2021 The Barn, Immersive Technology and Craft, September 8th, 2021
2021 UNFIX Festival, June 26th, 2021
2020 Contemporary Glass Society, Glass as Metaphor: Life and Death in Fragile Materials, October 28th, 2020
2020 Sound 2020 Festival, Le Sirenuse October 22nd, 2020
2020 BBC Radio 4 Living National Treasures September 27th, 2020
2020 Visual Art Scotland Friday Forum 8 June 26th, 2020
2020 BBC Radio 4 Living National Treasures March 12th, 2020
2020 Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass, Healing Art, Carrie Fertig February 27th, 2020
Professional Experience:
2023 Facilitator, Penny Chivas, post performance discussion Burnt Out, The Barn Banchory, Scotand
2022-2023 Tutor in Creative VR, Health of the Sublime in the Mearns, participants with pain, poor mental health, Alzheimer’s
2022-2023 Workshop Leader, Art in Nature, Video, Health of the Sublime in the Mearns, 50 years +
2019 Workshop Leader, The Living Memory Association, (the elderly with dementia) Edinburgh
2019 Workshop Leader Inverness Museum and Art Gallery, Inverness, Scotland
2019 Workshop Leader with Community Design House, North Lands Creative, Lybster, Caithness, Scotland
2018 Workshop Leader with FODI, (Friends of the Drop-In Centre, asylum seekers, Sunderland, England)
2017 Workshop Leader with the Essence Centre (the elderly with dementia and their carers), FODI, (Friends of the Drop-In Centre, asylum seekers), and Forward Assist, veterans, all Sunderland, England through National Glass Centre.
2017 Custom glass musical instruments for Sonic Bothy, Glasgow, Scotland
2016 Collaborative workshop leader with Stu Brown and Alistair MacDonald, Midland Art Centre MAC, Birmingham, England, MC’s
2015 Workshop Leader Dorchester Abbey, Dorchester-On-Thames, England
2013 Custom glass musical instruments for Dangerous Signs, American Sign Language poetry and performance company, National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
2011 Workshop Leader Chichester Cathedral, Chichester, England
2011 Workshop Leader West Dean College, West Dean, England
2011 Co-Curator, Trove: 32nd Anniversary Exhibition, Scottish Glass Society, Perth Museum and Art Gallery
2009 Co-Curator, Migrate: 30th Anniversary Exhibition of the Scottish Glass Society, Inverness Museum and Art Gallery, Inverness, Scotland
2008 Conference Coordinator, “Sources of Inspiration”, North Lands Creative Glass, Lybster, Scotland
2008 Masterclass Coordinator, North Lands Creative Glass, Lybster, Scotland
2007 to January 2008 Outreach Assistant to Denis Mann Golspie Drop-In Centre, Schizophrenia Scotland, helping with the design and production of community glass art, working with participants with varying sorts of mental illnesses. Golspie, Scotland, and North Lands Creative Glass, Lybster, Scotland.
2007 - 2008 Outreach in flameworking and casting North Lands Creative Glass, Lybster, Caithness, Scotland
1997 Bronze Plaques, TWA Flight 800 Memorial, The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, NYC.
1995-1997 Stonecarver, Portal of Paradise, The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, NYC.
Helped carve the main doorway of the largest Gothic cathedral in the world
Teaching
2022-2024 Tutor in Creative VR, Health of the Sublime in the Mearns, participants with pain, poor mental health, Alzheimer’s
2022-2024 Workshop Leader, Art in Nature, Video, Health of the Sublime in the Mearns, participants 50 years +
2017 Bild-Werk Frauenau, Germany
2016 Bild-Werk Frauenau, Germany
2016, 2013, 2012 Flameworking Techniques Class, North Lands Creative Glass, Lybster, Caithness, Scotland
2014 Artist in Residence, Edinburgh College of Art
2013 Artist in Residence, School for American Craft, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York
2013 Conceptual Flameworking, School for American Craft, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York
2011 Visiting Artist, Edinburgh College of Art
2011 Private Tutor to Jessica Ramm, RSA Residencies for Scotland recipient, North Lands Creative Glass
2011 Visiting Artist, West Dean College
2010 Masterclass, Borosilicate Flameworking, Plowden & Thompson, Stourbridge, England
2009 Artist in Residence in Flameworking, University of Sunderland, Glass and Ceramics, England
2009 Visiting Lecturer in Flameworking, University of Sunderland, England
2007 Teaching Assistant to Jill Reynolds, Conceptual Flameworking, Pilchuck Glass School, Washington
Collections
European Museum of Modern Glass, Rödental, Germany
Broadfield House Glass Museum, Kingswinford, England
North Lands Creative Glass, Lybster, Scotland
Perth Museum and Art Gallery, Scotland
The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, Roslin, Scotland
Publications
2023 New Glass Review 43, Corning Museum of Glass
2022 Coburg Prize for Contemporary Glass, 2022
2020 New Glass Review 41, Corning Museum of Art
2019 The European Museum of Modern Glass
2019, 2017, 2015, 2012, 2010, 2008, 2006 British Glass Biennale
2019 Neues Glass. February. Carrie Fertig: New Perspectives, author: Dr. Sven Hauschke, Director Veste Coburg and European Museum of Modern Glass
2018 New Glass Review 39: Important Recent Acquisitions
2018 The European Museum of Modern Glass
2014 New Glass Review, 35, Corning Museum of Glass
2014 Coburg Prize for Contemporary Glass 2014
2014 Art Out of the Flame - Contemporary Lampwork in Europe
2012 Glass, Urban Glass Art Quarterly, Autumn 2012
2012 New Glass Review 33, Corning Museum of Glass
2012 Glass, Urban Glass Art Quarterly, Winter 2012
Lectures/Presentations
2023 Ireland Glass Biennale Symposium, Dublin Castle, Dublin Ireland
2019 North Lands Creative, Lybster Caithness
2019 International Festival of Glass, Ruskin Glass Centre, Stourbridge, England
2018 Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland
2017 Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland
2015 Craft Net, sponsored by the Craft Council, National Glass Centre, Sunderland, England
2014 European Commission, Silicasonisphere, FET-ART: ICT & Art Connect so far: elements to orient the future, Brussels, Belgium, collaboration with Dave Murray-Rust
2014 IndieGoGo Go Crowdfund Britain, TechCube, Edinburgh, Scotland
2014 Design Informatics, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh
2013 Glass Department, Rochester Institute of Technology, Crowdfunding
2013 Salem Community College, USA
2012 International Festival of Glass, Stourbridge, England, Crowdfunding
2012 International Symposium in Architectural Glass, 2012, National Glass Centre, University of Sunderland, England, organised by the Institute for International Research in Glass
2011 Callendar House, Falkirk, Scotland
2011 West Dean College, Chichester, England
2011 Perth Museum and Art Gallery, Perth, Scotland
2010 International Festival of Glass, Ruskin Glass Centre, Stourbridge, England
2010 Perth Museum and Art Gallery, Perth, Scotland
2009 Art Conceptions in Current Flameworking, National Glass Centre, Sunderland, England, organized by the Institute for International Research in Glass and the British Crafts Council
2009 University of Sunderland glass department, Sunderland, England
2007 Milngavie United Free Church, Milngavie, Scotland.
2007 Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, Washington, USA
Education
2023 Climate Fresk
2021 Dementia awareness training, older veterans awareness training, both Age Scotland
2003-2007 Edinburgh College of Art, Successfully completed studies for BA Glass, awaiting graduation
Affiliations
2023 Membership Secretary Applied Arts Scotland
2023 Chair Mearns Writers
2023 Closing the Loop, Scotland
2023 Member NESCAN North East Climate Action Network
2023 Member Sustainable Mearns
2022 Board Member Applied Arts Scotland
2011 - 2012 Chair Scottish Glass Society
2009 - 2010 Exhibitions Officer Scottish Glass Society
2008-2009 Board Member, Caithness Arts