Considering Art Podcast – Monica Guggisberg and Philip Baldwin, artists with hearts of glass

Monica Guggisberg and Philip Baldwin, partners in life and work, have established a worldwide reputation for glass installations and sculptures using ground-breaking techniques. In this episode, they talk about how they met and how their teamwork evolved, how they set up a glassworks in Switzerland before moving to Paris to concentrate on sculpture, how they developed their signature technique of cutting glass, how vessels became a key part of their designs, how more recent work since moving to Wales has been resonant of human cultural history going back to ancient civilisations. Monica Guggisberg and Philip Baldwin talking with Bob Chaundy Accompanying images on consideringart.com Boat of Remembrance, Canterbury Cathedral <img width="800" height="532" data-attachment-id="12876" data-permalink="https://consideringart.com/2026/11/09/considering-art-podcast-monica-guggisberg-and-philip-baldwin-artists-with-hearts-of-glass/14a_the-pilgrimsboat-ebeltoft/" data-orig-file="https://consideringart.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/14a_the-pilgrimsboat-ebeltoft.jpg" data-orig-size="800,532" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"8","camera":"NIKON D700","created_timestamp":"1591891977","focal_length":"85","iso":"400","shutter_speed":"0.016666666666667","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="14a_The Pilgrims’Boat Ebeltoft" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://consideringart.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/14a_the-pilgrimsboat-ebeltoft.jpg?w=736" src="https://consideringart.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/14a_the-pilgrimsboat-ebeltoft.jpg?w=800" alt="" class="wp-image-12876" srcset="https://consideringart.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/14a_the-pilgrimsboat-ebeltoft.jpg 800w, https://consideringart.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/14a_the-pilgrimsboat-ebeltoft.jpg?w=150 150w, https://consideringart.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/14a_the-pilgrimsboat-ebeltoft.jpg?w=300 300w, https:/