PROVENANCE
Private Collection Auckland Purchased from FHE Galleries, 2007

Ann Robinson, born in Auckland 1944, is a New Zealand studio glass artist who is internationally renowned for her glass casting work. Robinson is a recipient of the 2001 ONZM and in 2006 received a Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Glass Art Society. Robinson became a Laureate of the Arts Foundation of New Zealand in 2006.

Robinson's work features in the permanent collections of art galleries around the world, including the Victoria and Albert Museum in the United Kingdom, the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Corning Museum of Glass in the United States, the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia and Stradtmuseum, Germany. She has also regularly exhibited in both solo and group exhibitions in New Zealand and Internationally.

In addition to her own art, Robinson is notable for the contribution she has made to the caste glass technique internationally and the development of New Zealand cast glass artistry. She is one of a small number of practitioners in the world responsible for the development of the lost wax casting technique for glass. As D Wood, in magazine Neus Glas states of Robinson, she is an internationally respected doyenne of the genre.