2012 Finalist
Te Rongo KirkwoodSilverdale, Auckland, New Zealand
Te Puhuia-Hinengaro
Kiln formed, fused, cold worked and slumped glass with flax fibre
5 H x 98 W x 62 D cm
An exploration of the sacred Maori cloak form, a Kahu Toi – Warriors Cloak. Taking the form from a protective garment to a sculpted art object where glass and light combine to collapse layers of time and space, each piece represents an ancestral connection, a cloak of healing consciousness.
Photographer: Howard Williams and David Sheilds
All entries as Finalist
Biography
Te Rongo Kirkwood
Silverdale, Auckland, New Zealand
Born
14/8/1973 Gisborne, Auckland, New Zealand
Education
- 2012, Pate De Verre Master Class, Kimiaki & Shinichi Higuchi, MAP Programme, Wanganui, New Zealand
- 2010, Master Class, Gerry King, Claudia Borella MAP Program, Wanganui, Manawatu / Wanganui, New Zealand
- 2009, Master Class, Emma Varga, Claudia Borella MAP Program, Wanganui, Manawatu / Wanganui, New Zealand
- 2007, Glass Fusing and Slumping Workshop, Claudia Borella MAP Program, Whanganui, Manawatu / Wanganui, New Zealand
Last Solo Exhibition
- 2014, Ka Awatea, A Journey of Life Through Light, De Young Museum of Fine Arts, San Francisco , United States
Last Group Exhibition
- 2013, Paradise Lost? Contemporary works from the Pacific, UBC Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, Canada
Public/Private Collections
- Various Private Collections
Awards/Grants
- 2013, Recipient of Creative New Zealand Grant, Creative New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand
- 2013, Matariki Whakapuawai Creative Entrepreneur of the year award, Matariki Trust, Auckland, New Zealand
- 2012, Recipient of Art Venture Award, Auckland Arts Regional Trust, Auckland, New Zealand
- 2012, Finalist, Ranamok Glass Prize, Australia
- 2012, Recipient, ART Venture Award, Arts Regional Trust, Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- 2010, New Works Grant, Creative New Zealand, Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- 2010, Finalist, 3D Award, Molly Morpeth Canaday Trust, Whakatane, Bay Of Plenty, New Zealand
- 2009, Finalist, 3D Award, Molly Morpeth Canaday Trust, Whakatane, Bay Of Plenty, New Zealand
- 2009, Best in Glass, Royal Easter Show Glass Art Awards, Royal Easter Show, Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- 2009, Finalist, Ranamok Glass Prize, Australia
- 2008, Merit Award, Cavalier Bremworth Luminous: NZ Art of Glass Award Exhibition, Cavalier Bremworth, Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- 2008, Finalist, 3D Award, Molly Morpeth Canaday Trust, Whakatane, Bay Of Plenty, New Zealand
- 2008, 2nd Place, Glass Art Awards, The Royal Easter Show, Auckland, New Zealand
