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Glass artist Peter Raos, 2009

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Glass artist Peter Raos, 2009

Peter Raos became a full-time glass artist in 1979 after completing a fine arts degree. Much of his work incorporates flowers and in the 2000s he began working on a small scale, creating paperweights and pendants. This is Raos with one of his flower vases in 2009.

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Douglas Lloyd Jenkins and Lucy Hammonds, Crafts and applied arts – Ceramics, glass, jewellery and textiles, 1980s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/45321/glass-artist-peter-raos-2009 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Douglas Lloyd Jenkins and Lucy Hammonds, published 16 May 2014.