Unlike most artists working in glass, George Papadopoulos treats his medium with a healthy disrespect. Using a technique he developed at the Royal College of Art, Papadopoulos breaks, colours and textures sheets of industrial glass and then re-laminates them to make architectural-scale artworks that look fragile but are extremely durable. These works express the in-built paradoxes of glass: that it is commonplace and extraordinary, visible and invisible, dangerous and strong. Born in Cyprus in 1969, Papadopoulos lives in London and has studios there in Germany and in Spain. He is author of the A&C Black book, Glass Lamination.