Te Rongo Kirkwood was the first recipient of the NZG Glass Residency in June 2021. Kirkwood says “The residency provided an opportunity for me to draw on the traditional use of the hue as the foundation from which to create layers of meaning within the vessel form using the discipline of blown glass. It was such a pleasure to have the opportunity to begin to resolve these ideas & drawings I have had waiting for 10 years to be realised.”
