Craft biennale
The second New Zealand Crafts Biennale opens in Auckland on September 9 for two weeks at the Auckland Museum. The Biennale is a multi-media crafts exhibition and award organised by the Crafts Council of New Zealand to promote excellence in the crafts. The executive director of the Crafts Council, Margaret Belich, says that the internationaily-competitive award with its prize of $lO,OOO had attracted the strongest-ever field of top craftspeople working in glass, ceramics, fibre, wood and metal as well as stone and bone jewellery. A significant New Zealand presence in this context was a real vindication of New Zealand’s reputation in the international craft art world, she says.
The Judge for the biennale is Grace Cochrane, an expatriate New Zealander who is at present curator in Australian decorative arts and design (post 1945) at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney.
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Press, 30 August 1989, Page 26
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