Surfacing
Born Lanark, Scotland, 1957
Lives Auckland, New Zealand
| '75-80 | DA & Post Graduate D.A. (Glass Design), Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland |
| '80-82 | Research Assistant, Faculties of Art & Design and Material
Science, Sunderland Polytechnic, England Part time Tutor, Extra Mural Studies, Faculty of Art & Design |
| '82-84 | Lecturer (Glass) National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Eire |
| 1983 | Production Assistant, Isle of Wight Glass, England |
| '84-85 | Visiting Artist/Lecturer.Tokyo Glass Art Institute, Japan |
| '85-86 | Designer, Senami, Ind. Inc. and BUSHY URUSHI, Tokyo.Nullhaus Group, Architects/Interior Designers, Tokyo |
| 1987 | Freelance Glass Designer/Maker, Sunbeam Glass Studio, Auckland, New Zealand |
| '88-93 | Lecturer/Acting Head of Glass Workshop, Canberra School
of Art, Institute of the Arts, Australian National University |
| '91-93 | President of OAusglass_, the Australian Association of Glass
Artists, convening the 1993 Conference in Canberra |
| '93-95 | Lecturer in Glass, Design School, UNITEC Institute of
Technology, Auckland, New Zealand |
| 1995 | Visiting Lecturer, Visual Arts School, Hawkes Bay Polytechnic,
Napier, NZ |
| 1995 | External Assesor/Course Moderator, School of Visual Arts,
Nelson Polytechnic, NZ |
| 1998 | Guest Speaker, Pacific Light Glass Conference, (NZSAG),
Auckland |
| 2000 | Visiting Tutor, University of Auckland School of Architecture |
| 2001 | Co- Curator of CAST, a touring Exhibition of Contemporary Cast
Glass in New Zealand |
| 2003 | Creative NZ Arts Council of New Zealand Craft Assessment Committee |
| 1981 | Northern Arts Travel Award to visit USA |
| 1987 | Craft Council of NZ, Visiting Artist and Workshop coordinator throughout New Zealand |
| 1994 | Unitec Institute of Technology, Professional Development support to attend the Winter School of The Domus Academie from Milan Italy at R.M.I.T. Melbourne, Australia |
| 1995 | Arts Council of New Zealand, Short Term Study Grant |
| 1996 | Artist in Residence, School of Visual Arts, Nelson Polytechnic, (18 week residency) |
| 1996 | Glass Award (Merit), New Zealand Glass and Ceramic Awards |
| 1996 | Fellowship to The Creative Glass Centre of America, (Session 1, 1997) Wheaton Village, New Jersey , U.S.A |
| 1997 | Residency Fellowship Creative Glass Centre of America,
Wheaton Village, New Jersey , U.S.A. |
| 2001 | Thomas Foundation Glass Project Award |
| 1985 | Architectural Glass work, Nullhaus Co., Tokyo Wacoal Co., Wacoal Arts Centre, Aoyama, Tokyo, Spiral Building,Tokyo. Omparati', ladies fashion shop, Ebisu, Tokyo |
| 1986 | Wu Hospital and private residence, Taiwan |
| 1987 | Architectural Glass work, Hewson-Morrison Architects, Auckland |
| 1996 | Private residence, Titirangi, Auckland |
| 1976 | HRH, Charles The Prince of Wales (Commissioned) |
| 1982 | Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead, Newcastle upon Tyne, England Sunderland Museum, Tyne and Wear, England |
| 1987 | Auckland City Art Gallery and Museum, New Zealand Dowse Art Museum, Wellington New Zealand |
| 1991 | Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery, Australia Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia |
| 1996 | Auckland Museum, Auckland New Zealand Dowse Art Museum, Wellington New Zealand |
| 1997 | American Museum of Glass, Wheaton Village, New Jersey USA |
| 1999 | His Excellency Kim Dae Jung, President of the Republic of Korea (Gifted from the New Zealand Government) |
| 2002 | Dowse Art Museum, Wellington New Zealand Te Papa, Museum of New Zealand |
| 1980 | Crafts Magazine, No. 45, July/August 1980, England |
| 1982 | La Revue de la Ceramique et du Verre, No. 4, Nov./Dec. 1982,
France |
| 1986 | Hohono Geijutsu, February/March, 1986, Japan WWD (Womens' Wear Daily) April 1986, Japan Axis Magazine, Vol. 20, Summer 1986, Japan |
| 1990 | Unreal City, Vol. 1, No. 3, December 1990, Australia |
| 1991 | Ausglass Magazine, 'A Conflict of Interests', Post Conference
Edition 1991, pp.53 and 54 |
| 1992 | Art Link - Thinking Craft Crafting Thought (Vol. 12, No. 2, p.41)
Australia GZ European Jeweller, 6/92 Glass Schmuck, Germany The Crafts Movement in Australia: A History, Grace Cochrane, 1992 |
| 1992 | Kunsthandwerk & Design, Issue 6, November 1992, pp. 26, 28,29, Germany Glasswork Magazine, - 'Idioms of the Antipodes', Issue 13, November 1992, pp. 1,10-19 |
| 1993 | Neues Glas/New Glass, 'Painted Glass Vessels' by Elizabeth McClure
Issue 1, 1993, pp. 22-29 Ausglass Post Conference Publication pp. 2, 119-122 |
| 1994 | World Glass Now O94, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, pp.77 and
175 |
| 1995 | Australian Studio Glass, Dr. Noris Ioannou, 1995, pp. 37, 128 133 |
| 1996 | Metro magazine, Main Events Listing, issue 180, June p.24, Auckland |
| 1996 | Venezia Apperto Vetro - International New Glass, 1996 pp.128 & 212 |
| 1997 | Pacific Way, Air New Zealand In Flight Magazine, Issue 102, February 1997, p.20 New Zealand House and Garden, Issue 38, October, pp. 8, 15-16 |
| 1997 | Object, No. 3/98 p.27 |
| 1998 | 100 New Zealand Craft Artists, Helen Schamroth, p. 50 |
| 1999 | Television Interview, NZ Channel ONE News, September 9 Television Profile, 5.30 with Jude, September 29, NZ Channel ONE |
| 2001 | Object, No. 2/01, p.50 Seasons of Change, Exhibition Catalogue, Dowse Art Museum Television Interview, NZ Channel ONE News, November 9 the Cast, New Zealand Contemporary Cast Glass, October, pp.5-7 |
| 2003 | Urbis Magazine, NZ, Winter 2003, p.26
NZ House and Garden Magazine, July 2003, issue no. 107, p.76 |
| 1992 | Galerie L, Hamburg, Germany |
| 1993 | Craft Cameo Series, Bendigo Regional Art Gallery, Victoria , Australia |
| 1994 | Making Marks, The Glass Gallery, Auckland, NZ |
| 2001 | Seasons of Change, Survey, Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt |
| 2003 | SURFACING, G2 FHE galleries, Auckland |
| 1979 | British Artists in Glass - Goblet Exhibition, Heals, London England |
| 1980 | Participant in Wedgewood and Craft Council project, Wedgewood Glass, Kings Lynn, Norfolk, England |
| 1981 | January Exhibition of Crafts Council/Wedgewood Glass project, ICA
Gallery, London England |
| 1982 | 'In The Pink', Elizabeth McClure Glass and Valerie Kirk
Tapestry, Ceolfrith Gallery, Sunderland Arts Centre , England |
| 1984 | British Artists in Glass, Westminster Gallery, Boston, USA. |
| 1985 | Bin (Bottle Exhibition), Savoire Vivre Gallery, Axis Building, Tokyo |
| 1986 | Glass Objects, Nakama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Glass, Aspects Gallery, London, England British Artists in Glass, Liberty, London, England Glass from Japan and USA, Museum fur Gestaltung, Basel, Switzerland; Galerie Gottschalk Betz, Frankfurt, Germany |
| 1988 | Contemporary British Craft, Miharu Do Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1989 | Form and Function, Meat Market Craft Centre, Melbourne, Australia Glass Exhibition, Miharu Do Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1990 | Australian Crafts 1990, Meat Market Craft Centre, Melbourne, Australia |
| 1991 | Challenging the Medium, Ausglass Members Exhibitions, Blaxland Gallery, Sydney Australia |
| 1992 | Glas Schmuck (touring exhibition) Deutsches Goldschmiedhaus, Hanau, Germany Co-incidences, 10 Years On - An exhibition of Elizabeth McClure Glass and Valerie Kirk Tapestry, Canberra School of Art, Canberra, Australia |
| 1993 | Origins and Originality, Ausglass Members Exhibition, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra A.C.T., Australia A.C.I. Glass Award Exhibition, Meat Market Craft Centre, Melbourne, Australia |
| 1994 | Little Jewels, Selected Exhibition of the Arts Marketing Board of Aotearoa/New Zealand, Wellington, NZ World Glass Now, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan |
| 1995 | New Zealand Craft in The 90's, NZ Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington New Zealand Kiln Glass Exhibition, Wellington Festival, Avid Gallery, Wellington Winter Group Exhibition, FHE Gallery, Auckland, NZ XPO New Zealand - Ceramics and Glass Award, Artex Exhibition, Auckland Venezia Aperto Vetro, Museo Correr, Venice, Italy (during the Venice Architectural Bienniale) Summer Group Exhibition, FHE Gallery, Auckland |
| 1997 | Winter Group Exhibition, FHE Gallery, Auckland Summer Group Exhibition, FHE Gallery, Auckland |
| 1998 | Pacific Light, International Movements in Glass, Auckland Museum
Seasonal Group Exhibitions (4), FHE Gallery, Auckland |
| 1999 | HEAD HANDS HEART,Christchurch Arts Festival
Seasonal Group Exhibitions (4), FHE Gallery, Auckland The Best of New Zealand Glass, Axia Modern Gallery, Melbourne, Australia |
| 2000 | New Zealand Glass 2000, Masterworks Gallery, Auckland, Autumn Exhibition, FHE Gallery, Auckland Winter Exhibition, FHE Gallery, Auckland |
| 2001 | Autumn Exhibition, FHE Gallery, Auckland Winter Exhibition FHE Gallery, Auckland Spring Exhibition, FHE Gallery, Auckland |
| 2002 | Spring Exhibition, FHE Gallery, Auckland
The Westmere Auction, Group Exhibition, Warwick Henderson Gallery; Rannoch, James Wallace House, Auckland Glass Invitational, Milford Galleries, Dunedin; Pataka, Porirua Museum of Art and Cultures; Rotorua Museum of Art and History Summer Group Exhibition, FHE Gallery, Auckland Christmas Galaxy, Green Gallery, Waiheke Island, Auckland |
| 2003 | Showing off, Group Exhibition, Masterworks Gallery, Auckland WALLACE ART AWARDS, Auckland Museum The Westmere Auction, Group Exhibition, Warwick Henderson Galleries Summer Group Exhibition, FHE Galleries, Auckland small and precious, -Masterworks Gallery, Auckland November Exhibition, Ron Sang Architects, Auckland |
