2024 International Bead Biennale: Call to Artists

The International Bead Biennale returns to the International Festival of Glass as a sister exhibition to the British Glass Biennale

Open to artists, designers, craftspeople and students of all nationalities worldwide who create beads where glass is the key design element.  We welcome all glassmaking techniques as long as the piece conforms to the concept of a bead.

Criteria for Submission

• Each artist may submit up to three individual beads. Each bead must be predominantly made of glass but may incorporate other materials

• All work must be available for purchase and made since 1 March 2022

• The bead must not exceed 10cm x 8cm in size but can be mounted, for example as a piece of jewellery

• Each bead must have a hole (not just a loop)

The application fee is £15

Deadline for entries: Midnight Sunday 3rd March 2024

The Jury for the International Bead Biennale 2024

Will Farmer / Director, Fieldings Auctioneer Ltd. Ceramic & Glass Specialist on BBC Antiques Roadshow

Carole Morris / Founder, Editor and Secretary of the Bead Society of Great Britain

Pam Reekie / Administrator, Contemporary Glass Society