Helga Reay Young
Education and Professional Experience
1962 - 65 apprenticeship in cabinet making
1965 - 69 studies architecture and interior design
1969 - 75 marries, lived in USA, Australia and England
1972 - 82 works as architect and exhibition designer
1983 - 84 apprentices with Hein Derix Studios, Kevelaer
since 84 attends international workshops for Architectural - / Stained
- / Mixed Media - / Glass with Jochem Poensgen, Susan Stinsmuehlen
- Amend, Patrick Reyntiens, Helma Sauerbrey Ann Wolff, Therman Statom
1984 - 86 studies Stained Glass with Patrick Reyntiens at the Central
School of Art and Design, London, UK, diploma
1986 opens studio near Cologne/Germany
1987 guest-student with Ludwig Schaffrath at the Akademie der Biidenden
Kunste Stuttgart 1988 / 89 assists Ursula Huth at the Summer Academy
of Bild-Werk Frauenau e.V., Bavaria
since 89 attends Women's International Stained Glass Workshop (biennial)
in Reykjavik, IS / Wales, UK / Baden, A / Tokyo, J / Cork, IR / New
York - Colorado, USA
since 91 teaches Stained Glass at Bildwerk Frauenau e.V. and privately
since 92 attends workshops for Metal Sculpture (Detlev Reuter, Trier),
Ceramics (Viola Kramer, Overath), Bronce - Casting (Volker Triebel,
Wulfenbuttel), Paper + Space (Helmut Frerick, Nideggen)
1997 + 99 teaches Stained Glass at Mark Angus's Sommer School, Bath,UK
Awards and Scholarships
1987 Scholarship for Intern.Students by Pilchuck Glass School, USA
1993 Scholarship for Intern.Students by Pilchuck Glass School, USA
1995 Grant by State of Schleswig-Holstein, Lubeck, GEDOK-Haus 1995
Craft Award
1995, Manu Factum, State of Nordrhein-Westfalen
2000 "Glaspreis 2000" (1st prize) nat.exhibition Giasmuseum Immenhausen
Works in Public Collections:
Nishida Museum, Toyama, Japan
Glasmuseum, Wertheim, Germany
Glasmuseum, Frauenau, Germany
Glasmuseum Immenhausen, Germany
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions or presentations of comparable importance are marked
with an (O).Group exhibitions are only included when a catalogue was
published.
1992 Galerie Artport, Dusseldorf (O)
Frauenzentrum Russelsheim (O)
Galerie Daldrop + Daldrop, Köln (O)
1993 Manu Factum, Dusseldorf, NRW-state craft exhibition
Galerie Burgerspital, Drosendorf, Österreich
Wales Tales, Johannesbad, Baden/Wien, Österreich
1994 Galerie VETRO, Frankfurt/M. (O)
Studio Maastricht, NL (O)
GEDOK-Atelierhaus, Lubeck (O)
1995 Layers of Experience, Park Tower, Tokyo, Japan
Manu Factum, Museum f. Angewandte Kunst, Köln NRW-state craft award
5. internationales Glassyposium Frauenau
1996 Galerie L, Hamburg (O)
Kunst im Rathaus, Kurten (O)
Johann-Michael-Maucher-Wettbewerb, Schwab. Gmund Rathaus Galerie,
Bruhl (O)
1997 Kunstlerinnen in Kurten, Rathaus Kurten Galerie CACTUS GLAS,
Hamburg (O)
Traces of Travel, Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork, Ireland
1998 Art Glass Gallery, J.-C. Chapeiotte, Luxembourg (O)
Viermal Glas, Stadt. Museum, Göttingen
The International Exhibition of Glass'98 Kanazawa, Japan
State-Galerie ROSIZO, Moskau (O)
1999 Kunstforum der GEDOK, Hamburg (O)
Westeuropean Glass Sculpture, Roermond, Holland
Cochrane Gallery, Central Saint Martins College, London (O)
2coo
5th European Glass Sculpture Exhibition, Fortis Banque, Liege,B.
Glas 2000, Glasmuseum Immenhausen In the Presence of Nature, Town
Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland (O)
Poetry of Glass: Galerie Mariska Dirkx, Roermond, Holland
2001
Artfair: Art Innsbruck, Galerie Mariska Dirkx in Vienna.
