Stuart Garfoot

Stuart Garfoot has an MA in Glass from the Royal College of Art and a BA in Glass and Ceramics from Stourbridge College of Art and Design. He has taught in glass departments at the Royal College of Art, Edinburgh College of Art and Design, the Kent Institute at Farnham and Plymouth College of Art and Design. He has acted in an advisory capacity in helping to set up and establish new glass programmes and facilities in Johannesburg SA, at Tsinghua University Beijing and at Shanghai University China.

 

Stuart is an artist/designer and technical glass expert with previous experience designing for industry; working for Rosenthal Glass and Thomas Glass in Germany. He has also been a consultant to Waterford Crystal in Ireland, developing strategic glass to metal designs. Stuart is a former student and current colleague of Professor Keith Cummings. With Cummings’ retirement he has taken on the techniques of the research group's rediscovery of pate(s)-de-verre glass methods. Stuart is also a recognized glass artist which national and international exhibitions.