Creative Glass Guild of Queensland

Members' Project Time - Friday
2026-07-03 09:00 (Australia/Brisbane) | Creative Glass Guild of Queensland, Downstairs, 64 Fulcher Road, Red Hill, Queensland, 4059, Australia
Creative Glass Guild members are able to use Guild workshop facilities during members’ project open times. You may hire use of kilns, sandblaster, bead making studio and use tools to work on your own projects without having to enrol in a course where tutors are available. Note though that the Guild may close at times for courses, workshops, maintenance or emergent priorities. Members will be notified by email of any changes.
Guild facilities during Members’ Project Times are for the use of all members and certain obligations are expected.
The Guild’s Administrative Policy further details the expectations of members and students, so that all can operate in a safe, effective and inclusive environment. Please take the time to read this important information.

Members' Project Time - Saturday
2026-07-04 09:00 - 12:00 | Creative Glass Guild of Queensland, Downstairs, 64 Fulcher Road, Red Hill, Queensland, 4059, Australia

Members' Project Time - Monday Daytime
2026-07-06 09:00 - 15:00 | Creative Glass Guild of Queensland, Downstairs, 64 Fulcher Road, Red Hill, Queensland, 4059, Australia
Creative Glass Guild members are able to use Guild workshop facilities during members’ project open times. You may hire use of kilns, sandblaster, bead making studio and use tools to work on your own projects without having to enrol in a course where tutors are available. Note though that the Guild may close at times for courses, workshops, maintenance or emergent priorities. Members will be notified by email of any changes.
Guild facilities during Members’ Project Times are for the use of all members and certain obligations are expected.
The Guild’s Administrative Policy further details expectations of members and students, so that all can operate in a safe, effective and inclusive environment. Please take the time to read this important information.

Members' Project Time - Monday Evening
2026-07-06 16:00 - 20:00 | Creative Glass Guild of Queensland, Downstairs, 64 Fulcher Road, Red Hill, Queensland, 4059, Australia

Making Christmas Decorations for Showcase Workshop, 22 June to 13 July (Members Only)
2026-07-06 17:00 - 20:00 | Creative Glass Guild of Queensland, Downstairs, 64 Fulcher Road, Red Hill, Queensland, 4059, Australia
Organiser: Chris Bell
A call-out to members to help with making the popular Christmas Decorations which the Guild sells at the Showcase every year. The 2026 Showcase will be held on Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 November at the Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens. The aim is to have more decorations than ever before – they sell like hotcakes!
Bring your own tools. Glass and other materials supplied.
Limited spaces in 4-week blocks: Bookings essential
Prerequisite: Glass cutting skills necessary
Cost: Free

Mosaic Ball Garden Project, 22 June to 6 July (Members Only)
2026-07-06 17:00 - 20:00 | Creative Glass Guild of Queensland, Downstairs, 64 Fulcher Road, Red Hill, Queensland, 4059, Australia
Organiser: Lyndall Davies

Members, seeking help to make mosaic pieces to adhere to an 85cm diameter Pal Tiya ball which will stand in the front garden at the Guild. This “sculpture” will demonstrate further our creativity with glass and what we offer at the Guild.
144 pieces in all are needed to cover the ball and it will stand on a stainless-steel pole in the corner of the garden bordering the path to the front stairs. Looking forward to your joining in.
What to bring: Your own tools. Glass, adhesive and other materials supplied.
Limited spaces in 3-week blocks: Bookings essential.
Prerequisite: Basic glass scoring and cutting skills.
Cost: Free

Members' Project Time - Wednesday
2026-07-08 09:30 - 14:00 | Creative Glass Guild of Queensland, Downstairs, 64 Fulcher Road, Red Hill, Queensland, 4059, Australia

BM3: Beginner Mosaics (June 17 to July 22)
2026-07-08 18:00 - 21:00 | Creative Glass Guild of Queensland, Downstairs, 64 Fulcher Road, Red Hill, Queensland, 4059, Australia
Mosaics – BEGINNERS
Tutors: April Araullo and Marianne Bland
In this 18-hour course held over 6 consecutive Wednesday evenings, you will learn skills and techniques necessary to create a beautiful glass mosaic suitable for displaying inside your home or outside in your garden. You choose!
Learn how to score and cut glass; safety practices when working with glass; and use of various hand tools for cutting glass to a pattern. You will also learn how to use a grinder to refine the shape of your tesserae, and finally, to glue and grout your mosaic for the finished picture. Tutors will provide a selection of designs suitable to create a 30 x 30 cm hanging mosaic. Upon completion of the course, you will have not only a beautiful mosaic to take home, but also the knowledge to create your own glass mosaic projects.
When: Wednesdays, 6:00 to 9:00pm (18 hours)
Numbers: Minimum 5, Maximum 6
Prerequisite: No prior experience required.
Cost: Includes all materials – glass, substrate, adhesives and grout, hanging hardware – as well as course notes. Guild beginner courses have no hidden costs!

IM3: Intermediate Mosaics (June 17 to July 22)
2026-07-08 18:00 - 21:00 | Creative Glass Guild of Queensland, Downstairs, 64 Fulcher Road, Red Hill, Queensland, 4059, Australia
Mosaics – INTERMEDIATE
Tutors: April Araullo and Marianne Bland
This 6-week evening course is for intermediate or advanced students to explore different techniques in mosaics and experiment with different adhesives and substrates with tutor assistance. You will work on your own project at your own pace. Projects that students have worked on include mixed media, glass embellishment, paper under glass, glass on glass, smalti, mosaics on mesh, 3 dimensional and portraits to name a few!
As a member, you will have access to purchase glass and other materials, but the Guild does not stock most adhesives, grout, various substrates, etc. You will need to purchase yourself.
Numbers: Minimum 4-6, Maximum 8. NOTE: Course is combined with Beginner students.
Prerequisite: Guild membership and completion of a beginners’ mosaics course or equivalent; or, Proficiency in glass scoring / cutting, substrate and adhesives knowledge and ability as assessed by Tutor.

IPL2: Panel Lamp Construction (9 July to 10 Sept)
2026-07-09 18:30 - 21:30 | Creative Glass Guild of Queensland, Upstairs, 64 Fulcher Road, Red Hill, Queensland, 4059, Australia
Tutor: Jenny Keys
Running over 10 weeks on Thursday evenings, students choose from three lamp designs, or, may choose their own simple pattern after discussion with, and agreement by, tutor. If you choose your own pattern, you may need to work in your own time to complete lamp.
Numbers: Minimum 6, Maximum 6
Prerequisite: Guild membership and completion of Leadlight and Copper Foiling – Beginners or Copperfoiling – Beginners.
Cost: Includes copper foil, solder, lamp cap, spider, flux, patina, but not glass & lamp fixtures as these will vary depending on your requirements. (Glass for a basic lamp may cost upward of $80.00 depending on the glass chosen.)

Mosaic Ball Garden Project, 13 July to 27 July (Members Only)
2026-07-13 17:00 - 20:00 | Creative Glass Guild of Queensland, Downstairs, 64 Fulcher Road, Red Hill, Queensland, 4059, Australia

FWS6: Fused Aussie Flowers (18 and 25 July)
2026-07-18 09:00 - 13:00 | Creative Glass Guild of Queensland, Downstairs, 64 Fulcher Road, Red Hill, Queensland, 4059, Australia
Tutor: Chris Bell
This 8-hour workshop is held over 2 consecutive weekends to allow for pre-firing of your glass pieces before creating 6 beautiful Australian flowers. Many pictures of Aussie native flowers will be available for inspiration.

Day 1: The tutor will demonstrate how to create a stock of the unique components of a flower – petals, stamens, stems, leaves of various shapes and sizes. These pieces will be made by scoring and cutting glass. You will be taught how to bend and curl stringers as decoration. You will then prepare the pieces ready for firing and the construction of your flowers the following week.
Day 2: Wash your prepared pieces and build six 7 by 8 cm sized Aussie Floral ‘pictures’. These will be placed in the kiln and fired ready for collection later in the week. At home, you might turn these into a hanging decoration, a pendant, a picture by glueing on backing material and framing, or display as they are.
Numbers: Minimum 6, Maximum 8
Cost: Includes all materials, adhesive and firing fees.
Prerequisite: Glass cutting skills necessary. Note: This workshop is not a replacement for the beginners fusing and slumping course.

BBM4: Glass Bead Making - Beginners (18 and 19 July)
2026-07-18 09:00 - 15:30 | Creative Glass Guild of Queensland, Upstairs, 64 Fulcher Road, Red Hill, Queensland, 4059, Australia
Glass Bead Making – Beginners
Tutor: Wendy McKean
Day 1: Introduction to lampworking tools and equipment; safety requirements, use of hothead torch as well as instruction on how to make your own glass beads. You will have time to practice this new skill with various bead shapes.
Day 2: Learn to pull glass stringers; how to apply dots and other simple decorative techniques while getting creative with colour.
Numbers: Minimum 3, Maximum 5
Prerequisite: No experience necessary. Suitable for students who have never tried torching or those with minimal glass bead making experience.
Note: Guild beginner courses have no hidden costs.

IFS1: Intermediate Fusing and Slumping
2026-07-19 09:00 - 16:00 | Creative Glass Guild of Queensland, Downstairs, 64 Fulcher Road, Red Hill, Queensland, 4059, Australia
This course is for members who have completed a Beginners Fusing and Slumping course at the Guild to experiment and create their own fused designs with a tutor to support. The tutor will assist in choosing patterns and molds at the appropriate skill level; suggest project design choices; and assist in selecting glass. Students will also be helped in more intricate glass cutting techniques and project composition as well as setting the kiln. Come prepared with design ideas and inspirations.
Students will need to purchase their own glass, frit, dots and other fused accessories. Tools are available for use but it is recommended students purchase their own scorers.
Numbers: Minimum 5, Maximum 8

Prerequisite: Guild membership and completion of the Beginners Fusing and Slumping course.

Making Christmas Decorations for Showcase Workshop, 20 July to 3 August (Members Only)
2026-07-20 17:00 - 20:00 | Creative Glass Guild of Queensland, Downstairs, 64 Fulcher Road, Red Hill, Queensland, 4059, Australia
Organiser: Chris Bell
A call-out to members to help with making the popular Christmas Decorations which the Guild sells at the Showcase every year. The 2026 Showcase will be held on Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 November at the Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens. The aim is to have more decorations than ever before – they sell like hotcakes!
Bring your own tools. Glass and other materials supplied.
Limited spaces in 4-week blocks: Bookings essential
Prerequisite: Glass cutting skills necessary
Cost: Free
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Beadmaker Buddy-Up - Layering glass, 25 July, 9:30am to 12:00pm
2026-07-25 09:30 - 12:00 | Creative Glass Guild of Queensland, Upstairs, 64 Fulcher Road, Red Hill, Queensland, 4059, Australia

Mosaic Ball Garden Project, 31 July to 10 August (Members Only)
2026-07-31 17:00 - 20:00 | Creative Glass Guild of Queensland, Downstairs, 64 Fulcher Road, Red Hill, Queensland, 4059, Australia

BFS2: Fusing & Slumping – Beginners (1 and 2 August)
2026-08-01 09:00 - 16:00 | Creative Glass Guild of Queensland, Downstairs, 64 Fulcher Road, Red Hill, Queensland, 4059, Australia
Tutor: Katrina Jackson
Want to enter the wonderful world of fused and slumped glass?
In this course, beginners to glass and those with some experience, will learn processes required to create a beautiful fused and slumped glass piece to take home. Learn how to cut glass, safety practices when working with glass, how to prepare glass for kiln firing, use and care of Guild kilns, and learn what happens to glass in the fusing and slumping processes. You will use basic designs supplied by the Guild to make one fused glass project.
On completion of this course and if you become, or are a member, you will be able to “book” Guild kilns to work on your own projects.
Numbers: Minimum 5, Maximum 6

Prerequisite: No experience necessary.

FWS2: Things with Wings (9 and 16 August)
2026-08-09 09:00 - 13:00 | Creative Glass Guild of Queensland, Downstairs, 64 Fulcher Road, Red Hill, Queensland, 4059, Australia
Tutor: Chris Bell
Let your imagination take flight in Things with Wings in this two-day workshop held over 2 weekends! Create fantastical fused glass pictures inspired by anything that soars, flutters or floats. It might be a bird, butterfly, bee or mystical creature. This is not a beginner’s workshop — it’s for makers ready to spread their creative wings and push their skills further. Experiment with layering, colours, and intricate assembly to create truly one-of-a-kind glass art. The tutor will contact you before the workshop to talk about your design. After fusing, you will take home your 20 cm square fused glass picture in a lovely freestanding/hanging frame.
Numbers: Minimum 5, Maximum 6
Cost: Includes all materials, kiln firing and picture frame. This workshop has no hidden costs.
Prerequisite: Glass cutting skills necessary. Note: This workshop is not a replacement for the beginners fusing and slumping course.

Making Christmas Decorations for Showcase Workshop, 10 August to 7 September (Members Only)
2026-08-10 17:00 - 20:00 | Creative Glass Guild of Queensland, Downstairs, 64 Fulcher Road, Red Hill, Queensland, 4059, Australia

BMT3: Glass Bead Making - Cute Critters
2026-08-10 18:30 - 21:00 | Creative Glass Guild of Queensland, Upstairs, 64 Fulcher Road, Red Hill, Queensland, 4059, Australia
Tutor: Lenore Keough
In this tutorial, you will review basic torching skills before making cute sculptural beads – a cat, mouse and if time allows a monster bead. This tutorial will cover shaping beads as well as dots and stringers to create sculptural designs and elements.
Numbers: Minimum 3, Maximum 5
Prerequisite: Students to have done torching or completed a beginners’ course at the Guild or elsewhere of at least 12 hours duration. Confidence in making and shaping simple beads and adding dots in controlled way.

Mosaic Ball Garden Project, 17 August to 7 September (Members Only)
2026-08-17 17:00 - 20:00 | Creative Glass Guild of Queensland, Downstairs, 64 Fulcher Road, Red Hill, Queensland, 4059, Australia

BM4: Beginner Mosaics (August 19 to September 23)
2026-08-19 18:00 - 21:00 | Creative Glass Guild of Queensland, Downstairs, 64 Fulcher Road, Red Hill, Queensland, 4059, Australia

IM4: Intermediate Mosaics (August 19 to September 23)
2026-08-19 18:00 - 21:00 | Creative Glass Guild of Queensland, Downstairs, 64 Fulcher Road, Red Hill, Queensland, 4059, Australia

BBM5: Glass Bead Making - Beginners (29 and 30 August)
2026-08-29 09:00 - 15:30 | Creative Glass Guild of Queensland, Upstairs, 64 Fulcher Road, Red Hill, Queensland, 4059, Australia
Glass Bead Making – Beginners
Tutor: Lenore Keough
Day 1: Introduction to lampworking tools and equipment; safety requirements, use of hothead torch as well as instruction on how to make your own glass beads. You will have time to practice this new skill with various bead shapes.
Day 2: Learn to pull glass stringers; how to apply dots and other simple decorative techniques while getting creative with colour.
Numbers: Minimum 3, Maximum 5
Prerequisite: No experience necessary. Suitable for students who have never tried torching or those with minimal glass bead making experience.
Note: Guild beginner courses have no hidden costs.

IFS2: Intermediate Fusing and Slumping
2026-08-30 09:00 - 16:00 | Creative Glass Guild of Queensland, Downstairs, 64 Fulcher Road, Red Hill, Queensland, 4059, Australia

Beadmaker Buddy-Up - Textures, 5 September, 9:30am to 12:00pm
2026-09-05 09:30 - 12:00 | Creative Glass Guild of Queensland, Upstairs, 64 Fulcher Road, Red Hill, Queensland, 4059, Australia

FWS7: Fern Burn and Frit Fun
2026-09-13 09:00 - 16:00 | Creative Glass Guild of Queensland, Downstairs, 64 Fulcher Road, Red Hill, Queensland, 4059, Australia
Tutor: Katrina Jackson
Delivered in 2 sessions, first use live plants fused between 6mm clear float glass in order to leave a “fossil-like” ghost image in the glass. After break, have fun using glass frit and powders to create a scene of your choice on clear glass. Your pieces will be fired for you to collect later.
Workshop is not a replacement for beginners’ fusing and slumping course. Participants will not be taught how to care for and use the Guild kilns.
Numbers: Minimum 5, Maximum 9
Prerequisite: No experience necessary.
Cost: Includes all materials (glass, kiln paper, frit) as well as kiln firings. No hidden costs.

Making Christmas Decorations for Showcase Workshop, 14 September to 5 October (Members Only)
2026-09-14 17:00 - 20:00 | Creative Glass Guild of Queensland, Downstairs, 64 Fulcher Road, Red Hill, Queensland, 4059, Australia

Beadmaker Buddy-Up - Unusual ways with clear glass, 10 October, 9:30am to 12:00pm
2026-10-10 09:30 - 12:00 | Creative Glass Guild of Queensland, Upstairs, 64 Fulcher Road, Red Hill, Queensland, 4059, Australia
