Anne Vibeke Mou works across sculpture and drawing finding possibilities in the nature of materials through their elemental transformation into glass. She uses glass composition and diamond point engraving by hand to transmute botanical and mineral elements into objects that weave together histories and ancient landscapes in contemporary contexts.
![Anne Vibeke Mou. Portrait by Cliodhna Murphy, 2023.]()
Born in Denmark, 1978, Anne Vibeke Mou moved to United Kingdom in 1999 to study at Glasgow School of Art and Royal College of Art, London. She lives and works in Newcastle upon Tyne and Cumbria. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries such as Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, MIMA, National Glass Centre, Sunderland, Contemporary Art Society, Two Temple Place and Camden Art Centre in London, and KunstraumLangenlois, Austria. Her work is in the collection of V&A, London, Laing Art Gallery, Tyne & Wear Museums with permanent commissions in Shandy Hall, Laurence Sterne Trust, Coxwold, York and St John’s, Healey, Northumberland, UK. She has undertaken residencies at Corning Museum of Glass, USA, Bullseye Projects, Scotland, Upernavik Museum, North West Greenland, Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design, Prague, Czech Republic, Sunderland University and National Glass Centre, UK.
![Studio: Dissenters Chapel, Cumbria. Date and photographer unknown. Courtesy Alston Moor Historical Society.]()
Studio
Dissenters Chapel
Loaning Head
Garrigill, Alston
Cumbria
CA9 3EY
United Kingdom
Contact
anne.mou@network.rca.ac.uk
Education
Royal College of Art, MA of Arts, 2003–2005
Glasgow School of Art, BA/Hons, 1999–2002
Aarhus School of Architecture, Denmark, Foundation, 1998–1999
The Glass Heart: Art, Industry & Collaboration, Two Temple Place, London, UK, 27.01. 2024 - 21.04.2024
Read the exhibition review in Financial Times ↗
Listen to Made out of glass on BBC Radio 4, Start the Week↗
Read about the exhibition on Craft Council / Stories↗
Glass World, National Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK, 14.10.2023 - 10.03.2024
I Wish... , The Laurence Sterne Trust at Shandy Hall, Coxwold, York, UK, 2023
Hinterlands, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK, 22.10.2022 – 30.04.2023
Read the exhibition review on studiointernational.com ↗
Read the exhibition review on thepenitentreview.com ↗
Read the exhibition review on culturednortheast.co.uk ↗
NGC Glass Prize, National Glass Centre, Sunderland, United Kingdom, 2022
Yūgen App, curated by Alexander Burenkov, commissioned by Porto Design Biennale, Portugal 2021
Love in the Time of Covid-19, Gagprojects, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, September – November 2020
Field Notes, Bullseye Projects: The Byre, Latheronwheel, Caithness, Scotland, August 2019 – 2021
Fragile Earth: seeds, weeds, plastic crust, MIMA, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, June – September 2019
Read the exhibition review on art-agenda.com ↗
The Flourish of Liberty, The Laurence Sterne Trust at Shandy Hall, Coxwold, York, UK, June – August 2019,
North Lands Creative Glass 2017, National Glass Centre, Sunderland 2017
harvest, Kunstraumlangenlois, Langenlois, Austria, 2016
Paint Her to Your Own Mind, The Laurence Sterne Trust, Shandy Hall, Coxwold, York/Constantine Gallery, Teesside University,
Middlesbrough/&Model, Leeds, UK 2016
ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London, UK, 2015
Mote, Arborescent 03 collaborative performance, Kielder Forest, Northumberland, UK, 2014
Chance Finds Us, MIMA, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, UK, 2014
Read the exhibition review on thisistomorrow.info ↗
Read the exhibition review on corridor8.co.uk ↗
Tip of the Iceberg: Art from Up North, Contemporary Art Society, London, UK, 2013
What is Drawing? Customs House Arts Centre, South Shields, UK, 2013
Multiple Choice, The Granary Gallery, Berwick upon Tweed, UK, 2013
Karst, Collaborative work with Phoebe Cummings, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK, 2013
A Private Affair, Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston, UK, 2012
The Collection, Globe Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 2011
Business Collectors Exhibition, Gallery North, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 2010
The Glass Delusion, National Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK, 2010
ACAdovetail, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 2010
Brick by Brick, Xsite Architecture, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 2009
Business Collectors Network, Coopers Building, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 2009
Globe Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 2008
Draw a line, follow it… Allenheads Contemporary Art, Allenheads, UK, 2008
The Void Ratio, St Michael’s Church, Byker, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 2008
National Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK. Solo exhibition, 2007
RCA Graduates, Bank of America, Canary Wharf, London, UK, 2007
Track and Place, John Hansard Gallery/Southampton City Art Gallery/Millais Gallery/NGCA/Reg Vardy/National Glass Centre, UK. North+South exhibitions, 2007
Business Collectors Network, Trinity Place, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 2007
British Glass Biennale, International Festival of Glass, Ruskin Glass Centre, Stourbridge, UK, 2006
Collections
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
National Glass Centre, UK
The Laurence Sterne Trust, Shandy Hall, UK
Laing Art Gallery, Tyne and Wear Museums, UK
Various private collections
Commissions
Diamond Window, A window for Shandy Hall, Coxwold, York, UK. Commissioned by The Laurence Sterne Trust and Arts & Heritage, 2016
Untitled, A window for St John’s Church, Healey, Northumberland, UK. Private commission, 2010
The Glass Wall, National Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK, 2007
Residencies
Bullseye Projects, The Byre, Latheronwheel, Caithness, Scotland 2019
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York, USA 2018
Upernavik Museum, Greenland, 2007
National Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK, 2007
University of Sunderland, UK, 2006
Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design, Prague, Czech Republic, 2005
Grants / Awards
Durham Research Trust, 2022
Northern Bridge Consortium, 2022
Henry Moore Foundation, Artists Award Scheme 2020
Arts Council England, Emergency Response Fund, 2020
Honorary Diploma of the Jutta Cuny-Franz Foundation 2017
Arts Council England, Grant for the Arts, 2014
Art and Christianity Enquiry Award for Art, 2011
Turning Point ACE North East, Critical Dialogue Bursary, 2011
Arts Council England, Grant for the Arts, 2007
Arts Council England, Grant for the Arts, 2006
Arts Council England/Visiting Arts Travel bursary. Czech Republic, 2006
Arts Council England/Visiting Arts International Fellowship Award, Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design, Prague, Czech Republic, 2005
National Grid Transco Award 2005
Curatorial
Chance Finds Us, mima, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art. Co-curator and publication editor, 2014
Publications
Art and the Church: A Fractious Embrace, Jonathan Koestlé-Cate, Routledge, 2016
A Window for Shandy Hall, The Laurence Sterne Trust, 2016
Chance Finds Us, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, 2014
The Windows of St John’s Church, Healey, Northumberland, Coracle Press, The Hotspur, 2010
Brick by Brick, X-site Architecture, 2010
Draw a line, follow it, Allenheads Contemporary Art, Hole Editions, 2008
Glass North East, Art Editions North, 2007
British Glass Biennale, Ruskin Glass Centre, 2006
National Grid Awards, Royal College of Art, 2005
Selected articles, essays, film, radio
Baltic Archive, Anne Vibeke Mou, Hinterlands, film 2022
National Museum of Scotland, Blog, The Creeping and The Wise: How the metamorphosis of animals in Scottish folklore and fossils became a recipe for glass, 25 October 2021
Art North Magazine, No. 8, Profile feature: From Kelp and Stone, 2021
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Hearing from Artists: Anne Vibeke Mou, May 2020
Art – Agenda Reviews, September 12, 2019, Fragile Earth: seeds, weeds, plastic crust, 2019
GASNews, Summer 2019, Volume 30, Issue 2, Material Matters: Sand and Ash, Silica and Flux, 2019
Art North magazine, Issue 3, Review, Field Notes at The Byre, 2019
Art North magazine, Issue 2, Special feature, Field Notes from the Byre, 2019
Corning Museum of Glass, a story of its own telling, film, 2018/2019
Apollo, The International Art Magazine, The contemplative power of contemporary stained glass, Jamie Warde-Aldam, online 24.12.2016
Lac Lunae, film, 2014
Contemporary Visual Arts Network, Spotlight interview: Chance Finds Us, online 24.10.2014
Corridor8, Contemporary Art & Writing Journal, Chance Finds Us exhibition review, online 30.7.2014
This Is Tomorrow, Contemporary Art Magazine, What are the Chances… symposium, online broadcast 8.9.2014
The Guardian, Chance Finds Us, 24.5.2014
BBC Radio 4. The Lost Art of Churches, broadcast 18.5.2012
The Guardian. Tiny Tyne Valley church beats Canterbury cathedral and Gormely in arts competition, The Northerner, online 21.11.2011
Art & Architecture Journal Press, Art & Christianity Enquiry Awards, online 22.11.2011
The Journal, Tiny Church beats cathedrals to win award, 22.11.2011
Heartchitecture, Ayla Lepine, News from Northumberland, online 3.12.2011
Chance Finds Us Project Blog, Iris Priest, The Windows of St John’s Church, online 03.03.2011
The Void Ratio, Upernavik Museum residency, exhibition brochure 2008
Anne Vibeke Mou, National Glass Centre, exhibition brochure 2007
Born in Denmark, 1978, Anne Vibeke Mou moved to United Kingdom in 1999 to study at Glasgow School of Art and Royal College of Art, London. She lives and works in Newcastle upon Tyne and Cumbria. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries such as Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, MIMA, National Glass Centre, Sunderland, Contemporary Art Society, Two Temple Place and Camden Art Centre in London, and KunstraumLangenlois, Austria. Her work is in the collection of V&A, London, Laing Art Gallery, Tyne & Wear Museums with permanent commissions in Shandy Hall, Laurence Sterne Trust, Coxwold, York and St John’s, Healey, Northumberland, UK. She has undertaken residencies at Corning Museum of Glass, USA, Bullseye Projects, Scotland, Upernavik Museum, North West Greenland, Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design, Prague, Czech Republic, Sunderland University and National Glass Centre, UK.
Studio
Dissenters Chapel
Loaning Head
Garrigill, Alston
Cumbria
CA9 3EY
United Kingdom
Contact
anne.mou@network.rca.ac.uk
Education
Royal College of Art, MA of Arts, 2003–2005
Glasgow School of Art, BA/Hons, 1999–2002
Aarhus School of Architecture, Denmark, Foundation, 1998–1999
Exhibitions
The Glass Heart: Art, Industry & Collaboration, Two Temple Place, London, UK, 27.01. 2024 - 21.04.2024
Read the exhibition review in Financial Times ↗
Listen to Made out of glass on BBC Radio 4, Start the Week↗
Read about the exhibition on Craft Council / Stories↗
Glass World, National Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK, 14.10.2023 - 10.03.2024
I Wish... , The Laurence Sterne Trust at Shandy Hall, Coxwold, York, UK, 2023
Hinterlands, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK, 22.10.2022 – 30.04.2023
Read the exhibition review on studiointernational.com ↗
Read the exhibition review on thepenitentreview.com ↗
Read the exhibition review on culturednortheast.co.uk ↗
NGC Glass Prize, National Glass Centre, Sunderland, United Kingdom, 2022
Yūgen App, curated by Alexander Burenkov, commissioned by Porto Design Biennale, Portugal 2021
Love in the Time of Covid-19, Gagprojects, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, September – November 2020
Field Notes, Bullseye Projects: The Byre, Latheronwheel, Caithness, Scotland, August 2019 – 2021
Fragile Earth: seeds, weeds, plastic crust, MIMA, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, June – September 2019
Read the exhibition review on art-agenda.com ↗
The Flourish of Liberty, The Laurence Sterne Trust at Shandy Hall, Coxwold, York, UK, June – August 2019,
North Lands Creative Glass 2017, National Glass Centre, Sunderland 2017
harvest, Kunstraumlangenlois, Langenlois, Austria, 2016
Paint Her to Your Own Mind, The Laurence Sterne Trust, Shandy Hall, Coxwold, York/Constantine Gallery, Teesside University,
Middlesbrough/&Model, Leeds, UK 2016
ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London, UK, 2015
Mote, Arborescent 03 collaborative performance, Kielder Forest, Northumberland, UK, 2014
Chance Finds Us, MIMA, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, UK, 2014
Read the exhibition review on thisistomorrow.info ↗
Read the exhibition review on corridor8.co.uk ↗
Tip of the Iceberg: Art from Up North, Contemporary Art Society, London, UK, 2013
What is Drawing? Customs House Arts Centre, South Shields, UK, 2013
Multiple Choice, The Granary Gallery, Berwick upon Tweed, UK, 2013
Karst, Collaborative work with Phoebe Cummings, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK, 2013
A Private Affair, Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston, UK, 2012
The Collection, Globe Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 2011
Business Collectors Exhibition, Gallery North, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 2010
The Glass Delusion, National Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK, 2010
ACAdovetail, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 2010
Brick by Brick, Xsite Architecture, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 2009
Business Collectors Network, Coopers Building, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 2009
Globe Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 2008
Draw a line, follow it… Allenheads Contemporary Art, Allenheads, UK, 2008
The Void Ratio, St Michael’s Church, Byker, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 2008
National Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK. Solo exhibition, 2007
RCA Graduates, Bank of America, Canary Wharf, London, UK, 2007
Track and Place, John Hansard Gallery/Southampton City Art Gallery/Millais Gallery/NGCA/Reg Vardy/National Glass Centre, UK. North+South exhibitions, 2007
Business Collectors Network, Trinity Place, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 2007
British Glass Biennale, International Festival of Glass, Ruskin Glass Centre, Stourbridge, UK, 2006
Collections
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
National Glass Centre, UK
The Laurence Sterne Trust, Shandy Hall, UK
Laing Art Gallery, Tyne and Wear Museums, UK
Various private collections
Commissions
Diamond Window, A window for Shandy Hall, Coxwold, York, UK. Commissioned by The Laurence Sterne Trust and Arts & Heritage, 2016
Untitled, A window for St John’s Church, Healey, Northumberland, UK. Private commission, 2010
The Glass Wall, National Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK, 2007
Residencies
Bullseye Projects, The Byre, Latheronwheel, Caithness, Scotland 2019
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York, USA 2018
Upernavik Museum, Greenland, 2007
National Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK, 2007
University of Sunderland, UK, 2006
Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design, Prague, Czech Republic, 2005
Grants / Awards
Durham Research Trust, 2022
Northern Bridge Consortium, 2022
Henry Moore Foundation, Artists Award Scheme 2020
Arts Council England, Emergency Response Fund, 2020
Honorary Diploma of the Jutta Cuny-Franz Foundation 2017
Arts Council England, Grant for the Arts, 2014
Art and Christianity Enquiry Award for Art, 2011
Turning Point ACE North East, Critical Dialogue Bursary, 2011
Arts Council England, Grant for the Arts, 2007
Arts Council England, Grant for the Arts, 2006
Arts Council England/Visiting Arts Travel bursary. Czech Republic, 2006
Arts Council England/Visiting Arts International Fellowship Award, Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design, Prague, Czech Republic, 2005
National Grid Transco Award 2005
Curatorial
Chance Finds Us, mima, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art. Co-curator and publication editor, 2014
Publications
Art and the Church: A Fractious Embrace, Jonathan Koestlé-Cate, Routledge, 2016
A Window for Shandy Hall, The Laurence Sterne Trust, 2016
Chance Finds Us, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, 2014
The Windows of St John’s Church, Healey, Northumberland, Coracle Press, The Hotspur, 2010
Brick by Brick, X-site Architecture, 2010
Draw a line, follow it, Allenheads Contemporary Art, Hole Editions, 2008
Glass North East, Art Editions North, 2007
British Glass Biennale, Ruskin Glass Centre, 2006
National Grid Awards, Royal College of Art, 2005
Selected articles, essays, film, radio
Baltic Archive, Anne Vibeke Mou, Hinterlands, film 2022
National Museum of Scotland, Blog, The Creeping and The Wise: How the metamorphosis of animals in Scottish folklore and fossils became a recipe for glass, 25 October 2021
Art North Magazine, No. 8, Profile feature: From Kelp and Stone, 2021
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Hearing from Artists: Anne Vibeke Mou, May 2020
Art – Agenda Reviews, September 12, 2019, Fragile Earth: seeds, weeds, plastic crust, 2019
GASNews, Summer 2019, Volume 30, Issue 2, Material Matters: Sand and Ash, Silica and Flux, 2019
Art North magazine, Issue 3, Review, Field Notes at The Byre, 2019
Art North magazine, Issue 2, Special feature, Field Notes from the Byre, 2019
Corning Museum of Glass, a story of its own telling, film, 2018/2019
Apollo, The International Art Magazine, The contemplative power of contemporary stained glass, Jamie Warde-Aldam, online 24.12.2016
Lac Lunae, film, 2014
Contemporary Visual Arts Network, Spotlight interview: Chance Finds Us, online 24.10.2014
Corridor8, Contemporary Art & Writing Journal, Chance Finds Us exhibition review, online 30.7.2014
This Is Tomorrow, Contemporary Art Magazine, What are the Chances… symposium, online broadcast 8.9.2014
The Guardian, Chance Finds Us, 24.5.2014
BBC Radio 4. The Lost Art of Churches, broadcast 18.5.2012
The Guardian. Tiny Tyne Valley church beats Canterbury cathedral and Gormely in arts competition, The Northerner, online 21.11.2011
Art & Architecture Journal Press, Art & Christianity Enquiry Awards, online 22.11.2011
The Journal, Tiny Church beats cathedrals to win award, 22.11.2011
Heartchitecture, Ayla Lepine, News from Northumberland, online 3.12.2011
Chance Finds Us Project Blog, Iris Priest, The Windows of St John’s Church, online 03.03.2011
The Void Ratio, Upernavik Museum residency, exhibition brochure 2008
Anne Vibeke Mou, National Glass Centre, exhibition brochure 2007