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The Promenade, 162 Hurstmere Rd, Takapuna, Auckland, New Zealand
Ph: +64 9 4456665 Cell: +64 021 577078
Email: art@artbythesea.co.nz

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Jo Tricker
NZ Glass Artist

My glass story started with my first job (way back in the mid eighties!) when I did an apprenticeship in Medical Laboratory Technology. I loved science - especially biology - and way before the industry was mechanised -
I got to play with test tubes, petri dishes, glass slides and pipettes - measuring and mixing liquids and chemicals, and spending a lot of time looking down a microscope!
Fast forward through the next 22 years by which time I had done a three year OE, and studied and worked in the other loves of my life - English literature and Design. After arriving at the door of my first Mosaic workshop
I was eventually led to a mosaic conference in Hobart, Tasmania. It was here that I heard a presentation by a sculptor who made life sized birds - some with a wing span of 5 metres in length - and each wing was decorated with kilnformed glass feathers!

I was fascinated and hooked - and after nine years my fascination has not ended! Glass encompasses my
love of science and art - it is the junction where both loves meet!

I have two apprenticeships in Medical Laboratory Technology, a Degree in English and Linguistics, a Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of other Languages, and a Certificate in Graphic Design.
I have completed numerous master classes in kilnforming and flameworking - learning from both local and international glass artists.


Jo Tricker glass artist, Naisiae

Naisiae Fused Glass Cloak with Glass Bead Necklace
Size: 160cm tall by 60cm wide ENQUIRE NOW


In celebration of 2022 being the United Nations International Year of Glass, Naisiae (Pronounced Nay-Zee)
is a glass representation of a Shuka (type of sarong) worn by Maasai women from the East Coast of Africa. She is made completely out of glass and hangs on a specially made carved wooden stand.

Joe Tricker cast glass bowl, African

African Cast glass bowls
Size: 20cm diemeter approximately ENQUIRE NOW

A tribute to the resourcefulness of Maasai women. The rubber on the bowls is a reference to the resourcefulness of many africans on the East Coast who would strip rubber tyres into different sized threads and then use them to string pendants or beads.    

Jo Tricker
NZ Glass Artist

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The Promenade, 162 Hurstmere Rd, Takapuna, Auckland, New Zealand
Ph: +64 9 4456665 Cell: +64 021 577078
Email: art@artbythesea.co.nz