Selected Exhibition History

  • Modern Masters, Munich, March 2017
  • Guest Maker, Craft in the Bay, Cardiff,  1 July - 28 August 2016
  • ‘Focus on Glass’, Craft in the Bay, Cardiff,   18 July – 6 September 2015
  • 'Form’, an exhibition of contemporary cast glass, London Glassblowing Gallery, 4 October – 2 November 2013
  • British Glass Biennale, Stourbridge, 23 August - 15 September 2012
  • European Glass in Context Exhibition, Bornholm Art Museum, 15 September to 18 November 2012.  (One of two glass makers selected to represent UK)
  • 'Melt' London Glassblowing Gallery, 5 to 29 October 2011
  • 'A.I.R.' at The Lightbox, Woking, Surrey, 23 February to 1 May 2011
  • ‘A.I.R.’, Crafts Study Centre, Farnham, Surrey, 12 – 23 October 2010
  • ‘Essence’ (an exhibition of Selected Artists from British Glass Biennale 2010, as part of the London Design Festival), London Glassblowing Gallery, Bermondsey Street, 22 September – 20 October 2010
  • 'Lab Craft: Digital Adventures in Contemporary Craft', A Crafts Council touring exhibition, opening at Tent London, Old Truman Brewery, London E1 6QL, 23 - 26 September 2010, continuing throughout 2011.  http://www.labcraft.org.uk/makers
  • British Glass Biennale, Stourbridge, 26 August - 11 September 2010 – (awarded 'Worshipful Company of Glass Seller's Award')
  • 'Remarkable Glass', Contemporary Applied Arts Gallery, London 18 June - 17 July 2010
  • Leon Salet Arte-Moda, Maastricht, Holland, 21 May - 31 July 2010
  • Bullseye 'e-merge 2010', Portland, Oregon, USA, 23 March - 19 June 2010 – (awarded 'Popular Prize')
  • 'A.I.R.' James Hockey Gallery, UCA Farnham, Surrey 15 - 21 May 2010
  • ‘The Sculpture Garden’, Birtley House, Bramley, Surrey, 1 May - 31 May 2010
  • British Glass Biennale, Stourbridge, August 2008
  • Worshipful Company of Glass Sellers Exhibition, The Glass Art Gallery, London, 11 September - 19 October 2007

Awards

  • Worshipful Company of Glass Sellers Award 2010, at the British Glass Biennale
  • Bullseye ‘e-merge’ Popular Prize 2010
  • Awarded Arts Council ‘Grants for the Arts’ funding for a research project focussing on the application of 3D CAD modelling within a craft context 2009
  • Short-listed for Worshipful Company of Glass Sellers Student Award 2007

Publications

Conference proceedings:

  • Doolan, S., Oseng-Rees, T.; Ferriz-Papi, J. 2016, An investigation into the effect upon flexural strength of different methods of cutting float glass and sintered recycled container glass, 23rd International Conference on Water Jetting, BHR Group, Cranfield 
  • Doolan,S., Cutler, V & Johnson, O.  2014, The synthesis of waterjet cutting with ‘hot-glass’ for the creation of murrini,  22ndInternational Conference on Water Jetting, BHR Group, Cranfield 
  • Doolan,S., 2012, The development of strategies for working with three-dimensional glass forms using two-dimensional waterjet cutting, 21st International Conference on Water Jetting, BHR Group, Cranfield.
  • Doolan, S., V. Cutler, 2010, Controlled-depth surface-abrasion for parquetry in glass, 20th International Conference on Water Jetting, BHR Group, Cranfield


Books (featured in):


Exhibition catalogues:

  • European Glass in Context, Bornholm Art Museum, Denmark (2012)
  • "British Glass Biennale 2012" (2012) ISBN 9780954757342
  • LabCraft – Digital Adventures in Contemporary Craft, Craft Council Exhibition Catalogue (2010) http://www.labcraft.org.uk/makers
  • Remarkable Glass, Contemporary Applied Arts, London ISBN 9780906420065
  • "British Glass Biennale 2010" (2010) ISBN 9780954757335
  • "British Glass Biennale 2008" (2008) ISBN 9780954757328


Professional journals:

  • “International Festival of Glass” (Review British Glass Biennale) Craft Arts International #86 pp. 92-94 (2012) ISSN 1038-846X
  • “From a glass band to flat-pack birdcages” (Review of British Glass Biennale) Crafts#237 pp.14-15 (2012)  ISSN 9770306610036
  • “International Festival of Glass” (Review of British Glass Biennale) Craft Arts International #80 pp. 87-89 (2010)  ISSN 1038-846X
  • “Remarkable Glass”; Craft Arts International #80 pp. 91-97 (2010)  ISSN 1038-846X

Symposia

  • Society of Glass Technologists Annual Conferencein 2016
  • Glass Research Conference, UWTSD, 2016
  • Society of Glass Technologists Annual Conference in 2015
  • ‘Parallels and Connections’ an international ceramics and glass research conference, in 2011, Sunderland University
  • 20th International Conference on Water Jetting in October 2010.
  • Society of Glass Technologists annual conference in 2010

 

Work in public collections

Work acquired for Glass Museum Alter Hof Herding, Germany

 

Education

PhDUniversity of Wales Trinity Saint David

BA (Hons) 1st Class 3D Design: Glass. University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, Surrey