Martin Allman United Kingdom
Working with salvaged ecclesiastical glass, I use historical fragments to construct new paradigms of image‑making. Informed by early Renaissance craft, my practice reconfigures light, fracture and inherited forms for contemporary meaning.
I work with salvaged ecclesiastical glass, treating historical fragments as active agents rather than relics. My practice explores how images persist across time, and how their survival can generate new paradigms of form and meaning. Informed by early Renaissance craft, I use light, fracture and inherited iconography to create contemporary objects where past and present coexist and reshape one another.
Artwork
Tread Lightly, Antique Stained Glass Fragments, 2026
Towards the Light, Antique Ecclesiastical Stained Glass Fragments, 2026
Projects and exhibitions
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Sir John Hurt Holt Art Award19/07/2026 — ongoing A small stained‑glass work inspired by Voltaire’s “cultivate your own garden.” Using rescued fragments, it reflects on looking after what we can shape when the world feels too big. After Covid, that idea of tending small, steady spaces feels especially close to home. |
Allen Hall Gallery, Glanford | Details |
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The Mannington Hall Art Prize Exhibition : Tread Lightly19/07/2026 — ongoing A fragment‑based stained‑glass panel showing bare feet moving through a field of light and small golden flowers. ‘Tread Lightly’ suggests paying attention to where and how we step—on the world, on each other, and on what remains. |
Mannington Hall, Itteringham | Details |