Jo Tricker - Glass artist

Jo Tricker is a glass artist based in Tauranga in the Bay of Plenty, Aotearoa NZ.

Jo creates glass fused, slumped, cast and lamp worked objects that are shaped by a love of literature and travel and the people from different cultures that she has met along the way.  

Jo is an exuberant storyteller. In this episode she talks about her younger life living in the UK and studying English and linguistics at Massey University and her initial love of mosaics which 14 years ago led to learning about glass screen printing, lamp working and glass fusing. She shares why she only now feels she's getting to really understand what she's all about as an artist and why she does what she does. Jo works in series which often use different techniques or are based on different ideas. She explains how she juggles the various series of work, her time making as a busy mother and how she manages being an extrovert alongside spending so much time alone in her studio. And she describes the process for her most current series Mythology of Fruit.

Jo shares some excellent advice, philosophies and reflections for artists and people wanting to develop a creative career.

https://www.jotrickerglass.com/

Naisae - now showing at Art By The Sea gallery

Mythology of Fruit series

Inanimate Architecture series

Older works