Icon Stained Glass Group have launched a call for papers ahead of their Annual Conference 2025; 'Removed, Remodelled, Relocated: The movement of stained glass from its original setting to places new. It will be held at Canterbury Cathedral 3rd and 4th October, 2025.
The rise in the closure of historic buildings and places of worship has led to an increasing risk to stained glass where windows are broken up, dismantled, resold and – if not lost entirely - relocated. This year’s theme aims to follow the journey of transposed historic architectural glass from creation, displacement, restoration or reworking and eventually reinstallation in a new context.
Submission Topics
The conference will include discussions of medieval, modern, and composite stained glass and will welcome papers on but not limited to:
- Re-location of stained glass windows (whole or in parts) to different parts of a building or to a different building
- Movement through sale and auction house
- Misplacements, reproductions, and forgeries
- Practical examples of how to display/rehome stained glass
- Innovative or unusual displays of fragments or otherwise broken up windows
We invite speakers to reflect on comparisons between previous and new locations, altered historical and artistic significance in their new location/form, appearance differences (through design or degradation) and the change in overall heritage values through these acts of restoration, reworking, and salvage.
We encourage emphasis on problem solving, whether practical or bureaucratic and the methods used to overcome these difficulties.
All students, early-years practitioners and established professionals are welcome to submit papers.
Submitting Your Papers
Please submit a short abstract to; iconstainedglass@gmail.com. The deadline for submissions is 30 April 2025.
Also email if you have any specific queries or would like to arrange a discussion.
Please share amongst stained glass contemporaries and save the date. We look forward to welcoming all to Canterbury for this year’s ICON Stained Glass Group Annual Conference.