WORK by contemporary Hungarian glass artists will be on display at Broadfield House Glass Museum next week as part of the International Festival of Glass.

An exhibition, titled Cutting Edge: Contemporary Hungarian Glass, will feature the work of 17 artists whose work is on display at both the V&A Museum in London and Corning Museum of Glass in New York.

Whereas British glass artists have embraced the blown glass tradition, the Hungarian approach to glass making is a fine art form, where they excel at kiln formed glass.

Pieces in the Kingswinford collection include a large kiln-formed electric blue glass hippo with angelic wings, a simple, crisp black outline of a sitting bull using just black and red glass and an amber glass couple entwined, eyes locked as they squeeze into the same bathtub.

The exhibition forms part of a UK tour which has already included a show at The Scottish Gallery and will head to The Olympia Fair, in London, next month.

Dudley Councillor Khurshid Ahmed, cabinet member elect for museums, said: “These pieces are quite different from anything Broadfield House Glass Museum has exhibited before and I think visitors to the museum will be amazed by the skills of the artists’ work.”

Cutting Edge runs alongside the International Festival of Glass which is taking place throughout the Stourbridge Glass Quarter between Thursday, May 28, and May 31.

The festival brings together glass makers and enthusiasts from all over the world and introduces glass to a public audience.

For more information about all the events, activities and exhibitions taking place throughout the festival visit www.ifg.org.uk