Bowl - 'Ice Bowl' #38

Ann Robinson designed and cast this vessel at her Kare Kare studio on Auckland's West Coast. Ice Bowls are significant to Ann Robinson's practice. Apart from being a favourite form aesthetically, Ann Robinson designed and cast this vessel at her Kare Kare studio on Auckland's West Coast. Ice Bowls are significant to Ann Robinson's practice. Apart from being a favourite form aesthetically, Ice Bowls were the first large pieces that Robinson mastered and achieved a degree of consistent results with. Because she had over time worked out many of the challenges associated with casting glass using the Ice Bowl as a control piece, she was able to use it to experiment further and develop her casting technique. This bowl is number 38 of an edition of 100 that Robinson plans to make. Made while she was still working at Sunbeam Glassworks, Ann used glass powder saved from cutting up coloured glass rods (made by the German company Kugler and used for glass blowing) and mixed it with clear soda glass frit (crushed glass) before casting. Ann Robinson studied glassblowing at Auckland's Elam School of Fine Arts in 1980. She then joined glassblowers John Croucher and Garry Nash in founding Sunbeam Glassworks, one of New Zealand's early glass studios, in 1981. Following that she turned to casting glass, drawing on the bronze casting she had learned while at Elam Art School. Over the last two decades, Ann Robinson has perfected the technique of glass casting to become one of the world's finest exponents of the craft.