Curriculum Vitae
Ann Robinson was born on April 4, 1944 in Auckland, New Zealand
Practising artist in West Auckland, New Zealand; married with two children
Education:
1980 Diploma of Fine Arts, Auckland University
Awards, Scholarships, Commissions:
1991
Equipment Grant, Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council "Treasures from the Underworld," commission for New Zealand Expo Exhibition, Seville, Spain
1987
Winstone Biennale Award
1986
Phillips Glass Award
Travel Grant to U.S., Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council
1984
Equipment Grant, Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council
Phillips Glass Award
1983
Equipment Grant, Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council
Selected Group and Solo Exhibitions:
1996
Mastercast , Glass Artists Gallery, Sydney, Australia
*Solo Exhibition, Lisa Kurts Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee
On Form, Lopdell house Gallery, Waitakere, NZ
1995
*Solo Exhibition, Elliot Brown Gallery, Seattle, USA
1994
Glass from the Pacific Rim, San Francisco. State University, Art Departments Gallery. San Francisco, California
1993
Solo Exhibition, Elliott Brown Gallery, Seattle, USA
"Parriott, Perkins and Robinson," Kate Elliott, Chicago
International New Art Forms Exposition at Navy Pier
"Pilchuck Glass Exhibition," SeaTac Airport, Seattle
"Habatat International," Farmington Hills, MI
1992
Master Works Gallery, Parnell, New Zealand
"International Pilchuck Exhibition," William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
"Cribbs, Marioni and Robinson," Kate Elliott Contemporary Glass, Chicago
International New Art Forms Exposition at Navy Pier
"Contemporary Kilnformed Glass," Contemporary Crafts Centre, Portland, OR
"Glass Now '92," Tokyo, Japan
"International Directions in Glass," Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
"Treasures from the Underworld," Seville, Spain
1991
"The Executive Suite," Crafts Council Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
"New Zealand Glass Review," Compendium Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
1990
New Zealand Crafts Council Wellington, New Zealand
1989-91
"Australian Kilnformed Glass," touring the U.S.; Kurland/Summers Gallery, Habatat Galleries, Heller Gallery
1988
"Kilnformed Glass: An International Exhibition," Craft Council Gallery of ACT, Australia
"World Glass Now '88," Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Hokkaido, Japan
"Stones in Glass Houses," Villas Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
New Zealand Expo Exhibition of Craft, Brisbane, Australia
1987
"Winstone Biennale," Auckland Museum, New Zealand
1986
"Phillips Glass Exhibition," Auckland Museum, New Zealand
"Sunbeam Glassworks," Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand
1984
Artisan Centre, Auckland, New Zealand
1983
"Glass '83," touring New Zealand
1982
"Fragile Art," Northern Regional Crafts Council, touring New Zealand
1981
"Glass '81," Auckland Society of Arts, New Zealand
Bibliography:
New Glass Review, Corning Museum of Glass, 1993, pg. 92. "Glass Conscienceness," by Donna Sapolin, Departures magazine, April/May 1993, pgs. 76-81, illustration pg. 78.
"Contemporary Kilnformed Glass," 1992, Contemporary Crafts Association, Portland, Oregon; pgs 64-65
"Glass Art in New Zealand" by Helen Shamroth, Neues Glass Magazine, 1992/1, pg. 40-46.
Glass: A Contemporary Art by Dan Klein, Rizzoli 1989; pg. 208
"Australia Kilnformed Glass," 1989; Australia Council for the Arts and Kurland/Summers Gallery; pp. 16/17
"World Glass Now '88," Hokkaido Museum, Japan
Selected Public and Private Collections:
Auckland Museum, Auckland, New Zealand
Dowse Gallery, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Irvin J. Borowsky, Philadelphia, PA
Karen Johnson Boyd, Racine, Wisconsin
National Museum of New Zealand, Wellington
Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia
Teaching Experience:
1996 Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA
1992 Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA ("Lost Wax Casting of Hollow Forms") 1990, 92, 93 Carrington Polytechnic, Auckland, New Zealand 1990 and 92 Canberra School of Art, ACT, Australia
Production:
Approximately 50 pieces in a year with 15 exported.
Representation:
Ann Robinson is represented exclusively in North America by Kate Elliott.
Collector and dealer inquiries invited. Photographs furnished upon request.
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Home base at Karekare:
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