Canberra Glassworks

31/08/2026

It's celebrate Netty Blair o'clock 🏆

ANU is celebrating the 2026 FUSE Glass Prize winner and local legend Annette Blair. Watch her in action, then see her award-winning artwork at the School of Art & Design gallery.

🔥Glassblowing demo
with prize winner Annette Blair
Fri 4 Sep | 3.30pm
ANU School of Art & Design - Glass Workshop

👀SEE the exhibition
FUSE Glass Prize 2026
18 Aug to 4 Sep
| Canberra ACT

🔗book online via link in bio

📸 FUSE Winner Annette Blair in some of our favourite recent hero shots

29/08/2026

NEXT WEEKEND 2 for 1 Neon Workshop⚡

Learn to bend glowing glass into playful abstract shapes, your unique piece will then be filled with noble gases, sealed with cathodes, and illuminated through the mesmerizing process of bombarding. Light up your space with your own handmade neon squiggle.

❤️‍🔥NEON DAY
2 for 1 | Sat 5 Sep
Make Your Own Neon Squiggles
Sessions from 10:30 am | 60 mins

Grab a friend and head to the torches

🔗For more information and to book into the workshop, visit the ‘SHORT COURSES ‘ page via the link in our bio.

📺Teachers Emma-Kate Hart and Emeirely Nucifora-Ryan bending neon | Neon classes in our neon project space |

28/08/2026

Flameworking Techniques - behind the making🕯️

Locally made and made to last. These pieces have been made, over flames, through years of honing of these techniques. Swipe to see some the different techniques used to make these pieces.

Shop glass in store
Tue to Sun
10 am to 4 pm


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Tri-Beads Carole Griffith - Making and shaping beads 📿

Glass beads are made by gathering molten glass, then shaping and wrapping it onto a mandrel (a stainless steel and clay coated rod). Once the shape and size are right, it can then be decorated through shaping or adding details.

One of the most common shaping techniques is marvering, manipulating the glass with various tools. We mostly use graphite paddles to smooth the beads, and stainless steel to add cohesive decorative indents.

Shop glass in store
Tue to Sun
10 am to 4 pm
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📸Carole Griffiths

Tri-Beads Carole Griffith - Making and shaping beads 📿

Glass beads are made by gathering molten glass, then shaping and wrapping it onto a mandrel (a stainless steel and clay coated rod). Once the shape and size are right, it can then be decorated through shaping or adding details.

One of the most common shaping techniques is marvering, manipulating the glass with various tools. We mostly use graphite paddles to smooth the beads, and stainless steel to add cohesive decorative indents.

Shop glass in store
Tue to Sun
10 am to 4 pm
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📸Carole Griffiths

Totem Bubbles Sarah Murphy - Coldworking and decorating 🧪

Once flameworked glass has annealed, the artist can further decorate with coldworking. Sarah’s necklaces were first shaped with tools (such as a butterknife) before being acid-etched, achieving the pieces’ smooth matte texture. This has created a similar effect to sandblasting, while not exposing the delicate soft glass to this abrasive technique.

Shop glass in store
Tue to Sun
10 am to 4 pm


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📸Sarah Augusta Murphy

Totem Bubbles Sarah Murphy - Coldworking and decorating 🧪

Once flameworked glass has annealed, the artist can further decorate with coldworking. Sarah’s necklace

28/08/2026

27/08/2026

Trying to make Dad feel special?

We’ve pulled a collection of glass with class that Dad will love (and we’ll even giftwrap for you!)

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Shop instore + online
Tue to Sun
10 am to 4 pm

📸Ben Edols, Peter Nilsson Swedish Art and Design, Aaron Micallef - Artist, JamFactory, Cam Michael

26/08/2026

Now officially open 🥂✨

Thank you to everyone who joined us in celebrating Lynda Draper last Saturday.

👀SEE the exhibition
GR'AFT
solo show by Lynda Draper
curated by Yvette Dal Pozzo
6 Aug to 25 Oct 2026

Catalogue now available instore and online

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2026 Exhibition Program is supported by ActGov and Creative Australia

📸 Opening night of GRA'FT at Canberra Glassworks on Saturday 22 August

25/08/2026

Final Days to see The Gardeners Bar 🪱
 
From within the Gardeners Bar Tamara Henderson provides some words on glass and her first Canberra exhibition.
 
👀SEE the exhibition
The Gardeners Bar
Tamara Henderson
11 Jul - 29 Aug
CANBERRA CONTEMPORARY | Parkes ACT
 
We’re going to miss you Gardeners Bar 🥲
 
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 | This project was supported by Creative Australia artsACT Canada Council for the Arts and  PALAS
 
📺The Gardener’s Bar at Canberra Contemporary and fabrication at Canberra Glassworks | Clips from ‘Green in the Grooves’

24/08/2026

Join us for these classes and programs in September and October.

🌷Make Your Own Spring Vase
Sat & Sun Sep

🌀LIMITED! Make Your Own Neon Squiggle
Sat 5/9

👑Father's Day Glassblowing
Sun 6/9

🕯️Intro to Flameworking | with Akie Haga
Sat 19/9

🪵Glass & Wood
Sun 20/9

⚡Neon Projects | with David Cooper
Sat 26/9

🐛NEW! Bugs, Butterflies, and Blooms
Thurs 1 - Sun 11/10 | daily 10:30am, 1:30pm | 8+

🔥Teen Glassblowing
Wed 30/9 - 1/10 | 10am | 14+

🥣Make Your Own Bowl
Sun 11/10

📿Glass and Silver | with Sarah Murphy
Sat 17/10

⛱️Sandcasting
Sun 25/10

🍷Vetro e Vino
Thu on demand

Book online now via the 'CLASSES' link in our bio

23/08/2026

Another smashed out of park 💥🧪

Last Saturday was a jam-packed day full of curiosity. Featuring the stunning precision and mastery of Akie Haga's flameworking. Followed by an exhilarating and physically demanding display of glassblowing by Justine McLaren and Tom Rowney.

Alongside the hands-on meeting of science and art. As heat transformed visitors designs into organic patterns captured in glass pendants. One of our most experimental kiln forming workshops yet!

Next time, enter the running to watch your creation brought to life!

🔥Kids Design Comp Demo
With Annette Blair
Sat 26 Sep 11am
As part of Floriade about town
| Kingston ACT

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📸Artist Akie Haga demonstrating flameworking | Artist Justine McLaren with lead gaffer Tom Rowney, assisted by Robert Schwartz and Priya Oliver | National Science Week National Science Week ACT Canberra Daily Visit Canberra

22/08/2026

We're opening on Tuesdays 😉📢

With Christmas on the horizon, we know you're needing that extra day with us. Starting the first of September, you'll be able to catch more action, and shop more glass!

❤️‍🔥New Opening Hours
Tue to Sun
10 am to 4 pm
Starting 1st of Sep


📸Ben Edols, Billy Crelin, Dylan McKracken, Will Clarke and Dan Vendables working for Production and Commissions