Charlie Newman

Laura Haddock talks to Glass about playing a woman ready to fight back

April 28, 2023

Glass talks with British actress LAURA HADDOCK about the upcoming Netflix spy thriller, The Recruit, in which she plays a woman who’s always ready to fight back. Trains are grinding to a halt, ...

John Legend speaks to Glass about the joys of music and family life

Charlie Newman

March 17, 2023

Feature, Music

In light of his new album, multi-award winning singer JOHN LEGEND talks with Glass Man about his rich musical upbringing, his vision for a better world, and the joy of family life. To accept th...

Andrew Scott reflects with Glass on his career so far

Charlie Newman

December 16, 2022

Culture, Feature

After filming away for a year, Glass Man finds actor ANDREW SCOTT in a reflective mood about his nuanced screen characters, writers he admires and his first love, theatre. The irony of interviewing Olivier a...

Glass speaks to founder Charlotte Coombs of London-based silverware brand, Ware

Charlie Newman

August 2, 2022

Fashion, Jewellery and Watches, News

THE BUZZ surrounding cryptocurrencies still peppers conversations in watering holes, offices and restaurants the world over. If you’ve managed to artfully dodge these competitive conversations then perhaps you’...

Glass speaks with London-based photographer Christoper Espinosa Fernandez

Charlie Newman

July 28, 2022

Art, Feature, Photography

CHRISTOPHER Espinosa Fernandez did the unthinkable during the lockdown – in his Isolation 2020 project he created imagery that is reassuringly calm. Before the restrictions were announced, Fernandez understood ...

Glass reviews Nancy Cadogan’s exhibition at the Gillian Jason Gallery

Charlie Newman

June 22, 2022

Art, Exhibitions, Feature

WHEN WAS the last time you were completely still? In fact are we ever still? Sleeping, sitting or even meditating, the mind always drifts. British figurative painter, Nancy Cadogan, explores “the idea of the...

Glass speaks to trailblazing artist Rita Keegan

Charlie Newman

May 27, 2022

Art, Feature

The bigger picture – the trailblazing artist Rita Keegan shares life lessons on creativity, style and letting your hair down with Glass OF Caribbean and Canadian descent and born in the Bronx in 1949, the...

Glass reviews the Walter Sickert retrospective at Tate Britain

Charlie Newman

May 13, 2022

Art, Exhibitions, Feature

TATE Britain’s retrospective on artist Walter Sickert is a beacon of hope, a reminder of the power and importance of empathy amongst the polarised world we find ourselves in today. Sickert was born in 1860 i...

Glass reviews the V&A’s Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature

Charlie Newman

March 2, 2022

Culture, Exhibitions, Feature

Children’s author Beatrix Potter has come full circle. Potter grew up on Bolton Gardens, a short walk from the South Kensington Museum, today the Victoria and Albert museum, where we can now find Potter’s studi...

Ireland-born actor Niamh Algar talks to Glass

Charlie Newman

February 18, 2022

Culture, Feature

Ireland-born actor Niamh Algar talks to Glass about how her recent gut-wrenching roles in Deceit and Censor that place women at the centre of the narrative Having grown up on “a diet of Channel Four a...

Glass reviews Francis Bacon Man and Beast at The Royal Academy

Charlie Newman

February 16, 2022

Art, Feature

THE majority of retrospective exhibitions from blockbuster artists can often feel like entering a time capsule with rose tinted glasses on, wondering how groundbreaking it was for its time. However Francis B...

Glass reviews Antonia Showering’s Mixed Emotion at the Timothy Taylor Gallery

Charlie Newman

February 8, 2022

Art, Culture, News

IT IS commonly known that every time you revisit a memory you alter it in some way, embarking on a slightly different narrative each time you return to it. Since completing her Masters in Fine Art from the Slad...

Glass speaks with French actor Camille Cottin

Charlie Newman

February 4, 2022

Culture, Feature

Glass speaks with French actor Camille Cottin about playing a single-mum in her latest film Stillwater, one of her many roles championing the female experience POPPING up on the screen via Zoom, Camill...

Lubaina Himid showcases her largest ever solo exhibition at the Tate Modern

Charlie Newman

December 17, 2021

Art, Exhibitions, Feature

ZANZIBAR-born, Lancashire-based artist Lubaina Himid showcases her largest ever solo exhibition at the Tate Modern. Humid’s work comes sweeping through the capitals institution, demanding attention and doing wh...

Glass meets British actor and Hollywood A-lister Felicity Jones

Charlie Newman

November 26, 2021

Culture, Feature

Glass meets British actor and Hollywood A-lister Felicity Jones whose latest starring role was inspired by the dying art of letter-writing Felicity Jones. Photograph: Gavin Bond IN 2011, British author J...

Pioneering jewellery brand Vrai launches collaboration with Arizona Muse’s charity Dirt

Charlie Newman

November 24, 2021

Fashion, Jewellery and Watches, News

AS COP26 draws to a close, we can now welcome in a breath of fresh air to an ongoing conversation, this time via the worlds first zero carbon footprint producer of diamonds, jewellery brand Vrai and their colla...

Glass previews the 2022 Harewood Biennial

Charlie Newman

November 9, 2021

Art, Exhibitions, News

WE ARE all hoping 2022 marks a year of new beginnings. From March next year we can celebrate the innovations and teachings of 15 artistic practitioners in the Harewood Biennial held at Harewood House, near Leed...

Glass enjoys Nancy Cadogan’s new exhibition – All The Good Things

Charlie Newman

October 26, 2021

Art, Feature

THE previous 18 months has left us mentally frazzled and now, on our route out to normality, we find ourselves feeling physically frazzled too. British American artist, Nancy Cadogan’s new exhibition on the gro...

Glass meets rising star – actor Sọpẹ Dìrísù

Charlie Newman

October 15, 2021

Culture, Feature

The thinker After briefly contemplating a career behind an office desk, actor Ṣọpẹ Dìrísù has emerged as “one to watch” after appearing in two of last year’s top small-screen dramas. Glass catches him in a r...

Glass reviews Icons Portraits by Andy Gotts at Maddox Gallery, London

Charlie Newman

September 16, 2021

Art, Culture, Feature

CONSIDERING photographer Andy Gotts has shot everyone from Hollywood greats – Harrison Ford, Michael Caine, Meryl Streep, to fashion royalty — Twiggy, Claudia Schiffer and Naomi Campbell, to music megastars — D...

Glass reviews Burgeon and Remain by Angela Heisch at the Pippy Houldsworth gallery

Charlie Newman

September 14, 2021

Art, Feature

NEW ZEALAND-born, Brooklyn-based artist Angela Heisch’s first UK solo exhibition, Burgeon and Remain, is a masterful and thought provoking debut. Created during the throws of lockdown in March 2021, Heisch...

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