Scott Benefield
Scott Benefield is internationally known as a glassblower and educator with a speciality in Italian cane techniques. He has conducted workshops on these techniques in the UK, ROI, Turkey, Japan and throughout the United States.
Scott helped start the New Orleans School of Glassworks in 1990, a non-profit public glass school and gallery. In 1992 he founded Studio Inferno, a production studio for blown and cast glass wares and in 1997 moved to Seattle to establish Isola Glass.
In 2010 he married glass artist Andrea Spencer and built a glassblowing studio in Randalstown, Northern Ireland. The Northern Ireland studio offers a unique opportunity to purchase or commission handblown glass that is locally designed and produced.
“I create hand-blown glass using traditional Venetian cane techniques. Each piece has a clean, contemporary design that utilizes the unique properties of overlapping transparencies to create vibrant hues in a virtual plaid”.
Although well-established at retail craft outlets and galleries through the US, Scott’s work has only recently become available in the UK. Scott produces unique one-off commissioned and gallery pieces as well as affordable giftware.
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Professional Experience
2012 50 Years of American Studio Glass, Kentucky Museum of Arts and Crafts
2011 4th International Glass Festival, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
2011 Living with Glass, Vessel Gallery, London
2011 Origin, British Crafts Council, London
2011 Engaging with Glass, Solstice Art Centre, Navan
2010 Penland Faculty Show, Penland Gallery, Penland NC
2010 Three x 3, Signal Art Centre, Bray
2010 Three x 3, Craft NI, Belfast
2010 Contemporary Glass, Belfry Art Centre, Norfolk
2011 Selfridges Christmas ornament competition
2009 On the Wing, Northern Ireland Cancer Centre, Belfast. Suspended atrium sculpture.
2011 Lifetime Membership Award, Glass Art Society
2011 SIAP Travel Award
1996 Flubright-Hays Grant for study abroad in Sweden
2011 New Glass Review 32, Corning Museum of Glass
2011 Bothering Why, Glass Art Society Journal
2011 A Journey of Beginnings, Glass Quarterly, Winter
2008 Creativity for the Unoriginal, Glass Art Society Journal
2009 Free Glass, Glass Quarterly, Fall
2009 Considering BIGG, SOFA catalogue
Contact Details
42 The Oaks
Randalstown
BT41 3NE
