Mr Edmond Byrne

Job: Programme Leader

Faculty: Arts, Design and Humanities

School/department: School of Arts, Design and Architecture

Address: De Montfort University, The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH

T: 0116 250 6529

E: edmond.byrne@dmu.ac.uk

Social Media: www.linkedin.com/in/edmondbyrneglass

Research group affiliations

Institute of Arts, Design and Performance

Institute for Sustainable Futures

Publications and outputs

  • Collect International Art Fair – Objects Beautiful - Sometset House - London – 1st – 3rd March 2024.

    London Design Festival – ‘Join, Assemble, Hold’, Cromwell Place - London - The New Craftsmen - 16th – 24th Sep 2023

    Artefact – Design Centre – London - Cavaliero Finn Gallery – 9th – 13th May 2023.

    Collect International Art Fair – Cavaliero Finn Gallery - Sometset House - London – 1st – 5th March 2023.

  • London Design Festival – Gallery 5, Cromwell Place - London - The New Craftsmen - 16th – 24th Sep 2023
  • Artefact – Design Centre – London - Cavaliero Finn Gallery – 9th – 13th May 2023.
  • Collect International Art Fair – Cavaliero Finn Gallery - Sometset House - London – 1st – 5th March 2023.
  • London Design Festival – Blue Mountain School and Grove Raines Architects Studio – 17th-25th Sep 2022.
  • Artefact – Chelsea Design Centre – London 10th – 15th May 2022
  • What Colour is Metal? – National Craft Gallery – Kilkenny - 6th April -27th July 2022
  • Odd and Even - Taste Contemporary in association with Maison Louis Carré - France - 5 September - 28th November 2021
  • Radical Craft 3 - Direktorenhaus Museum - Berlin - 1st Oct 2021 - 1st April 2022
  • Dubai Expo 2022: Ireland Pavilion - Dubai - 1st Oct 2021 - 22 March 2022
  • Townhaus Collective at So Shiro - London - 15 Nov - 22 Dec 2022
  • National Glass Centre – Glass Prize Exhibition, Sunderland - 16 October 2021 - 13 March 2022. 

Research interests/expertise

Glass and Ceramic Materials

Areas of teaching

  • Craft
  • Design Materiality

Qualifications

  • MA (RCA)
  • B.Des
  • H.DipADEd.
  • PGC

Courses taught

BA Design Crafts

Honours and awards

FHEA

Membership of professional associations and societies

  • Contemporary Glass Society
  • Glass Art Society

Projects

Regenerative Foam Glass Insulation for the Built Environment

Glass 3DP - Design and development of glass paste material for LDM 3D Printing.

Recent research outputs

Solo Exhibition 'Glass Embodied' 2025, Flow Gallery, London.

Collect International Art Fair, 2025,  Cavillero Finn Gallery, London

Contemporary Glass Society Conference, DMU, 2023.

Internally funded research project information

HEIF 2024

Institute of Arts, Design and Perfrmance 2025 

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