Andrew Brewerton
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Shearsman Titles
Raag Leaves for Paresh Chakraborty
About the author
Andrew Brewerton is the Principal of Dartington College of Arts, Visiting Professor of the University of Plymouth, and Honorary Professor of Fine Art at Shanghai University. He is a poet, and author of more than thirty journal and catalogue essays on contemporary glass.
Formerly Head of Glass (1994-6) and Dean of Art & Design (1996-2004) at the University of Wolverhampton, having worked for a decade (1984-94) in the glass crystal manufacturing and design. As Head of Design and Development at Dartington Crystal he was responsible for the Frankfurt Fair award-winning Dartington Limited Editions collection in 1991, which was selected for the Corning New Glass Review, profiled by Crafts magazine, and purchased for the permanent collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
His international work as an educator has involved collaborative development of academic glass programmes at Tsinghua University, Beijing, and Shanghai University, and of the Consol Glasshouse at Tshwane University of Technology in Pretoria, South Africa, as well as public art projects in the UK and China.
His critical writing, principally on contemporary glass, has been variously translated into Chinese, Danish, French, German, Italian, Malay, and Spanish. Two recent texts are available as internet publications: Stair Spirit: Observations of Ann Wolff; and on Heidegger, Daoism and lost wax casting, Touching the Void.
Andrew's previous poetry publications include Sirius and Cade l'uliva (Poetical Histories, Cambridge 1995 and 2003) and inclusion in the anthology FOIL: Defining Poetry 1985-2000 (Etruscan Books, 2000). His Shearsman collection is the first to be issued by the publisher in both hardcover and paperback editions.