Victoria Rodgers graduated from the WRCP (Now UCOL) Bachelor of Fine Arts programme in 2000 with a Merit Distinction in Studio Practice. In her final year she also achieved selection in the prestigious RFC Glass Prize (Now the Ranamok Glass Prize). After graduation, Victoria travelled overseas and on her return was appointed Artist in Resident: Glass Programme at UCOL in 2003. In 2004 she set up a studio practice in Wanganui and taught part time in the Glass Dept. Victoria has been consistently accepted into juried shows such as the Norsewear and Wanganui Regional Art Awards and the highlight for her, to date, is an invitation to exhibit at the Museum of American Glass in the International “Particle Theories: International Pate de Verre and Other Cast Glass Granulation”. In this very prestigious exhibition she is the only New Zealander and is exhibiting alongside the world’s top pate de verre artists. Her preferred method of glassmaking is the ancient form of pate de verre meaning literally, a paste of glass.

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