Travel awards
Painter Philippa Blair, jeweller Daniel Clasby, artist-educator Ross Hemara and performance artists the Front Lawn, are the winners of the 1987 Air New Zealand — Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council Travel Awards.
The awards, provide travel on Air New Zealand routes plus a cash grant from the arts council towards expenses. They are given to established artists for refresher trips and to artists with potential, who would gain significantly from overseas experience.
Blair, of Auckland, was one of the New Zealand artists who showed work in New York and Chicago at the time of “Te Maori.” She will use the award to travel to the West Coast of the United States to develop new audiences and markets for her work.
Clasby is owner-director of a jewellery studio and access workshop in Auckland and recently had a one-man show entitled “Life Sentence” at Auckland City Art Gallery. He will travel to the United States to exhibit, lecture
and undertake advanced study. Hemara. a painter, carver, dwigher and.admintstrator.; is a tutor in craft design at Watartki Polytechnic in Rotorua. He Intends to spend Hate in North America studying the management and curriculum of arts In edufcation programmes particularly in multicultural communities.
Composer and performance artist Don McGlashan and actormusician Hany Sinclair are the Front Lawn. Both of Auckland, they have completed two national tours and performed in a wide range of venues in New Zealand.
They will use the award to go to Vancouver for the first stage of a tour which will take them to New York, Germany, London and Edinburgh.
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Press, 13 May 1987, Page 23
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