ART CRAFTS EXHIBITION

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 103, 3 May 1934, Page 13

ART CRAFTS EXHIBITION

An art crafts exhibition, the first of its kind to be held in Wellington, will be opened, under the auspices of the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, in the Whitmore Street Gallery on June 13 by the Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe. The main object of this exhibition is to reach beyond the ordinary scope o£ art as usually exhibited in painting and sculpture, and it will embrace a variety of skilled craft work that can.justly be de-, scribed as works of art. Much work of this nature is,done in New Zealand, and this exhibition is intended to give the work encouragement and extension, for it is not only aesthetic' but is utilitarian and of industrial and commercial importance. It is hoped that entries will be received from all parts of the Dominion, and these will be , supplemented by exhibits sent trom London.

Exhibits will include etchings, engravings, and book-plates; miniatures; carving and -pottery; silver-work, jewellery, . and metal-work; sculpture, plaster-work, and garden ornaments; (book production and illumination, leather-work, stitcliery, and embroidery; commercial art, and carton and bqxmaking; . lcadlights and. stained glass; carpets and weaving, including Maori weaving. There will also bo sections devoted to architecture and to fur-, niture-making, and special pieces oE furniture of New Zealand design and construction will bo on view. • . ;

Art galleries and schools of art throughout the Dominion are co-operating in order to mako a success of the exhibition, and a number of leading furniture and other firms are giving their support to the project. _ -