Intersection Workshop: Making Light

Join glassmaker Michael Ruh for an intimate 2.5-hour capturing light for photos and film workshop held within the Intersection exhibition space.

In this session, Michael will use glass pieces from the Intersection exhibition along with water, metal, wood and paper, and using your mobile phone torches, he’ll help create ethereal luminous images to photograph and film.

Michael is proposing a workshop of ten people to make it an intimate experience and to maximise individual guidance.

Suitable for beginners as well as those with photography and film experience.

All materials provided.

Duration: 2.5 hours

Price: £45

Places limited to 10 participants

About Michael Ruh Studio

Michael Ruh Studio is based in South London, founded in 2004 by Michael Ruh and Natascha Wahl, who work alongside a small team of glassmakers. It was built on the premise of making with a material that already existed: optical glass, the ultra-pure glass used in lenses, which the studio sources as industrial waste and remakes by hand.

The studio makes lighting, tableware and objects in small batches and to order. It also takes on commissions with interior designers, architects and brands looking for a creative collaboration, developing each one through conversation, hand-drawn sketches, colour studies and prototypes made in glass.

Michael Ruh

Michael trained first as a sculptor, at Drake University in Iowa and the University of Denver, before turning to glass at the Instituut voor Kunstambachten in Mechelen, Belgium, in 1992. He has worked with the material ever since.

What holds him is its contradictions: liquid one moment, permanent the next, and never quite the same twice, so that even after three decades it demands his full attention. Within a craft largely unchanged for centuries, he has developed his own language, including a technique, and the tools for it, to scribe lines inside vessels while the glass is still hot. His colours come from arid landscapes at the end of the day, the slow shift from sundown into darkness.

His work has been shown at Collect at the V&A and is held in the collections of the National Museum of Scotland and Blackwell, The Arts & Crafts House.

Refunds

Please note, we are unfortunately unable to offer refunds for this event.

Reduced ticket prices

We’d like as many people as possible to be able to access and enjoy Bell House. We offer a limited number of income-based concession tickets at half price, which can be booked directly - if you would not be able to attend at the full price due to financial considerations, then this concession option is available.