BORN: South Shields, Tyne & Wear, England
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE
2012/ Present: Builds bespoke studio, ‘Stewart Hearn – London Glassworks’, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire
2006/12: Continues ‘London Glassworks’ as Sole Trader, Walthamstow, London
2002/06: Set up ‘London Glassworks’, partnership with Paul Devlin, Walthamstow, London
2000: Designer for Dansk International, USA
1999: Accepted for Crafts Council Index of Selected Makers
1994/02: Set up ‘First Glass Partnership’ with Bob Crooks, Clapham, London
1992/95: Part–time Lecturer (Hot Glass)–Buckingham College of Higher Education
1992: Glassmaker (Summer) – Baltic Sea Glass, Bornholm, Denmark for Pete Hunner & Maibritt Jonsson
1992/94: Freelance Glassmaker
1988/91: Glassmaker and workshop manager at Glassworks (London) Ltd, with Simon Moore, Catherine Hough & Steven Newell
1986/88: Assistant to David Kaplan & Annica Sandstrom, Lindean Mill Glass, Scotland
1983/86: Sunderland Polytechnic, B.A.(Hons) 3D Design in Glass & Ceramics.
Occasional Glassmakers assistant to Charlie Meaker, Jim Griffiths, and Rachael Woodman & Neil Wilkin
AWARDS
2018: Winner Gold Medal of 3rd (Hejian) Craft Glass Creation & Design International Competition and Exhibition, China
2016: Winner of National Trust Open Callout, with Crafts Council
2011: Winner of the Balvenie Master of Craft Award, (ceramics & glass category)
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2020: Pangolin Gallery, London - ‘Christmas Collection’, online mixed media group exhibition
2019: Gallery Ten, Edinburgh - ‘New Works in Glass’, solo exhibition
2018: Shang de Glass Museum, China - ‘3rd (Hejian) Craft Glass Creation & Design
International Competition and Exhibition’, selected group show
2017: Pyramid Gallery, York - ‘Water & Music’, selected group exhibition
2016: London Design Festival - ‘Chosen by the National Trust’, selected mixed media exhibition
2015: Primavera, Cambridge - ‘Solo Exhibition’
2014: National Glass Centre, Sunderland - ‘Showcase Exhibition’, Rachel Elliott & Stewart Hearn
2013: Cupola Contemporary Art, Sheffield - ‘Glass’, selected group exhibition
2012: Contemporary Applied Arts, London - ‘Domestic Matters’, selected group exhibition
2011: Conran Shop, London, - ‘Handcrafted in Britain’, solo exhibition