Wales - The Glass Magazine

The Britannic Explorer: England and Wales’ first luxury sleeper train embarks upon its maiden voyage

July 3, 2025

MARKING the start of a new chapter for British luxury travel, The Britannic Explorer – A Belmond train – is set to embark upon its inaugural journey on 21 July 2025. As the first luxury sleeper train in Englan...

The Goring Hotel for The Coronation of King Charles @ Ben Carpenter

The Goring Hotel unveils Coronation Afternoon Tea in honour of King Charles III

Alicia Tomkinson

May 2, 2023

Dining, Feature

AS THE closest luxury hotel to Buckingham Palace, who better than The Goring, with its Royal Warrant for hospitality services, to host a special collection of activities in honour of King Charles' Coronation la...

Glass presents Alexander McQueen’s AW20 Campaign

Imogen Clark

August 18, 2020

Fashion, News

REWINDING our memories back to Paris Fashion Week back in March, Sarah Burton presented the new Alexander McQueen AW20 collection inspired by her trip to Wales. During the designer's visit to St. Fagans Nationa...

PFW AW20: Alexander McQueen

Augustine Hammond

March 3, 2020

Fashion, Fashion Shows, News

SIGNED, sealed and delivered was the love letter to the Welsh countryside that informed Sarah Burton’s AW20 collection for Alexander McQueen at Paris Fashion Week this season. A result of visits outside of thei...

Glass reviews Green Man Festival 2019

Katrina Mirpuri

September 4, 2019

Feature, Glass LIVE, Music

IT’s mid-morning at Paddington station and I’m walking towards platform 9 with a camping bag slung over my shoulders and a cricket trolley with a five-man tent stuffed inside it. Getting through the barrier wit...

Glass interviews Welsh actor Luke Evans

Tom Halford

November 23, 2018

Culture, Feature

Luke Evans talks to Glass about his role in the Netflix series The Alienist and his ever-growing career as a leading man in Hollywood AFTER performing onstage for most of his twenties, Welsh actor Luke Evans...

Glass interviews Dan Wood "Gap in The Hedge"

Glass interviews Welsh photographer Dan Wood

Stephanie Clair

July 13, 2018

Art, Feature

OVER the past nine years Dan Wood has focused his image practice on Wales and the Welsh. Hailing from Bridgend in South Wales, prior to his focus on this native country, Wood concentrated on shooting skateboard...

Molly Parkin pictured with Falling in Love Again And Again, 2017

Glass visits the Molly Parkin Life In Colour Exhibition

Rachel McCormack

September 11, 2017

Art, Exhibitions, Feature

MOLLY Parkin has a new show, and it’s not to be missed. Following the success of her retrospective at the Stash Gallery last year, Parkin has been busy experimenting with a new medium and the results ...

Glass celebrates Green Man Festival’s 15th birthday

Katrina Mirpuri

May 16, 2017

Feature, Music

THIS year marks the 15th anniversary of our favourite Welsh festival, Green Man. Located in the stunning Brecon Beacons, and named after its positive ethical approach, Green Man has put together yet another gre...

Between rebellion and beauty – Glass talks to Camille Blatrix, the Prix d’Enterprise Ricard-winning artist whose first UK solo show opens at MOSTYN, Wales.

Stephanie Clair

July 29, 2015

Art, Avant Art, Culture, Feature, News

Processing tensions between the self, memory and rebellion through his work, Camille Blatrix’s solo show at MOSTYN in Llandudno aims to reflect feelings of both the fictional and autobiographical. In conjunctio...

A game of (two) thrones – Glass interviews actor de jour Iwan Rheon

Gabriella Crewe-Read

June 2, 2015

Don't Miss: Film, Feature

Welsh Actor Iwan Rheon is best known for his role as the sadistic torturer Ramsay Snow in HBO’s screen adaption of George RR Martin’s novel Game of Thrones. The series, currently in its fifth season, ...

Enter through the forest and arrive in utopia – Green Man Festival

Stephanie Clair

September 8, 2014

Culture, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature

Buying a festival is scarcely heard of, but nine years ago Fiona Stewart decided to purchase Green Man when it was in desperate need of rejuvenation. Stewart had previously been the manager behind...

Simply does it

Bonnie Friend

March 19, 2014

Art, Avant Art, Culture, Feature, Glass Talents, News

In a world of perpetual information, constant conversation, and complex debate, it is an unbridled breath of fresh air and a proverbial sigh of relief to come across someone whose view liberates you from th...

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