ERIC HILTON
Eric Hilton at Schantz Galleries. photo: Lisa Vollmer
Scottish Artist and Designer Eric Hilton is a skilled master at working glass to convey the aesthetic and philosophical issues that confront artists. “Art for me is a vehicle that synthesizes order into the awe of existence. It is the vehicle for dance, music, poetry, literature and the visual arts. It represents the soul of human consciousness.”
Eric’s true passion is in the creative process in the molding, etching, cutting, sandblasting and the polishing of each work. His process is like painting, as he gradually builds each piece gradually over the whole surface. You can find the elements of life - earth, air, fire, and water in his work. “I am influenced by nature from which infinite information can be gleaned”
Education:
1959 Edinburgh College of Art, BFA
1960 Edinburgh College of Art, MFA
Teaching:
1971 - 1977 NYS College of Ceramics at Alfred, NY
1969 - 1971 University of Victoria, Canada
1967 - 1969 Birmingham College of Art, England
1962 - 1967 Stourbridge College of Art, England
1960 - 1962 Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland
Grants, Prizes Awards:
1981 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1980 National Endowment for the Arts Grant for Architectural Research
1971 Canada Council Materials Grant
1971 Canada Council Travel Grant
1970 Faculty Research Grant: University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia
1967 Major Prizewinner: Open Glaziers Competition, British Glass lndustry
1961 European Traveling Scholarship from Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland
1960 Post Graduate Scholarship: Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland
Books:
Innerland, Steuben Glass; New York, 1976 limited edition
The Council House by Lee Nordess, Perimeter Press. Chicago, 1980
Lectures:
University of Richmond, Virginia
Alfred University Elderhostel Series
International Glass Congress, Helsinki, Sweden
Leicester College of Art, Leicester, England
The World Craft Council Conference, Kyoto, Japan
The Royal College of Art, London, England
The Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
British Art Glass Society, Edinburgh, Scotland
Glass Art Society: Mexico City 1992, Corning 1991, Seattle 1990
Commissions:
Board Room Doors for S.C. Johnson and Son, Inc., International Conference Center, Racine, WI
Modular Architectural Units in pressed glass for Plouden & Thompson, Dial G1assworks, Stourbridge, England
Modular Units for architectural application, Ansons Gallery, London
Architectural Panels for TW. Ide, Ltd. Glass Manufacturers, London
Sandblasted Sculptural Relief, Ansons Gallery for Jaguar, Coventry, England
Sandblast Sculpture, commissioned by Ansons Gallery, Mayfair, London
Exhibited in the Building Centre, London
Crystal sculpture 'Enigmatic Pathways" for the University of Virginia, Richmond, VA
Planets Series - Corporate Gift Commission for Comdisco, Chicago
Major Architectural Commission for the Rockefeller Center, Paramount Publications
Building, 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York City
Major Sculpture Commission, Queens College, New York
Major Design Work for Steuben Glass
Sculpture for Greenbriar, West Virginia
Sculpture for the World Golf Hall of Fame St. Augustine, FL
Grand Am Sculpture, Daytona, FL
Commissioned sculptures for Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Exhibitions:
New Vision Gallery, London
Grosvenor Gallery, London
The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
Greater Victoria Art Gallery, Victoria, British Columbia
Xerox Radial -80, Rochester, NY
State University of New York, Albany, NY
American Glass Now - Touring Exhibition
International Glass Sculpture, Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, FL
Lee Nordess Gallery, New York, NY
Bienally, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Illinois State University: The Art of Craft -the American View, Champaign-Urbana, IL
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Jewelry Exhibition, Steuben Glass, New York, NY
New Glass - Touring
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris,
Otari Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya, Japan
Tokyo Daimaru, Tokyo, Japan
Glass Art Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Edinburgh College of Edinburgh, Scotland
Birmingham College of Art, Birmingham, England
Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan
Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Lausanne, Switzerland
Pilkington Glass Museum, Liverpool, England
Osaka World Exposition, Osaka, Japan