Clifford Rainey

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Clifford Rainey (born 1948, <a href="/facts/Whitehead%2c_County_Antrim/646WTNmp">Whitehead, County Antrim</a>, <a href="/facts/Northern_Ireland/Jmr0NRyl">Northern Ireland</a>) is a Northern Irish glass sculptor. he began his career as a <a href="/facts/Linen/MHrhhjyW">linen</a> <a href="/facts/Damask/v6PmvM5E">damask</a> designer and worked in William Ewarts linen manufacturers from 1965 to 1968. He later studied at <a href="/facts/Hornsey_College_of_Art/JHN0Lo63">Hornsey College of Art</a>, the <a href="/facts/University_of_East_London/WQsHnHoL">North East London Polytechnic</a> School of Sculpture, where he specialised in glass sculpture, and the <a href="/facts/Royal_College_of_Art/kBV2vjw6">Royal College of Art</a> from where he received an <a href="/facts/Master_of_Arts/ABQoKTLg">MA</a>. Between 1973 and 1975 he ran his own glass studio in <a href="/facts/London/KozCCsy9">London</a>. In 1975 he won a commission for a small sculpture to commemorate the <a href="/facts/Silver_Jubilee_of_Elizabeth_II/1Fd1jK6J">Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II</a> and in 1976 was commissioned by <a href="/facts/Sun_Life_Financial/GIlT6gCT">Sun Life Assurance</a> to make a large glass sculpture in <a href="/facts/Bristol/nLwyoDTG">Bristol</a>. He was a lecturer at the Royal College of Art from 1977 until 1984. Rainey is the Chair of the Glass Program at the <a href="/facts/California_College_of_the_Arts/pcCo37BW">California College of the Arts</a> in <a href="/facts/Oakland%2c_California/84tfrNlx">Oakland, California</a>, where he has taught since 1991.
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Clifford Rainey