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Frestonian Gallery presents a memorial exhibition to reflect on and celebrate Sam Herman’s (1936-2020) extraordinary life and work, and to reaffirm his legacy as Britain’s most pioneering and celebrated glass artist. It demonstrates how Herman’s glass work, is as vital to the understanding of the development of British modernism as that of Hans Coper and Eduardo Paolozzi his contemporaries and colleagues in the ceramics department at the Royal College of Art.

Glass has until relatively recently sat low down in the hierarchy of artistic media, existing in the tiresomely debated well-trodden …