A trio of glass artists have won the Bombay Sapphire Prize 2005, the world’s biggest annual award for artists, designers and architects working with glass.

The £20,000 international award for excellence and innovation in contemporary glass was presented to Anne Brodie, Ruth Dupré and Louise Gilbert Scott who together created an 8-minute short film of a breakfast being cooked in a glass workshop called Roker Breakfast.

The judges were also impressed by work that two of the artists had submitted individually, both of which were short-listed for the Prize – Poppy Seed by Anne Brodie and Gravitational Pull by Ruth Dupré.

The glassmakers say that their film (made at the National Glass Centre in Sunderland) ‘celebrates the theatricality of glassmaking, which normally takes second place behind the finished object’. The film shows glass pouring, spreading, elongating, stretching, spilling, cooling, cracking and breaking as well as the more predictable way it behaves when tooled and worked.

All 24 short-listed works will be showcased in the Bombay Sapphire Blue Room exhibition touring the UK throughout 2005/06. Now in its fourth year, the Bombay Sapphire Prize has celebrated the work of some of the world’s most talented artists and designers.

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Glass Age