Objectspace
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Objectspace is a public art gallery in Auckland, New Zealand. It opened in 2004 and is dedicated to the fields of craft, applied arts and design.{{cite web|title=Craft and applied arts|url=http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/ephemera/45335/best-in-show-exhibition-at-objectspace-2008|website=Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand|publisher=Ministry for Culture and heritage|access-date=9 December 2014}}
Organisation
Objectspace's founding chair was jeweller Warwick Freeman.{{cite web|title=Three new Governors|url=http://www.thearts.co.nz/news.php&news_id=473|website=The Arts Foundation|access-date=10 December 2014}} The gallery's founding director was Philip Clarke (2004 - 2015). Kim Paton was appointed as the current director in 2015.{{cite web|title=Objectspace announces new Director|url=http://www.creativenz.govt.nz/news/objectspace-announces-new-director|website=Creative New Zealand|publisher=Ministry for Culture and Heritage|access-date=18 February 2024|date=14 August 2015|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180219154633/https://www.creativenz.govt.nz/news/objectspace-announces-new-director |archive-date=19 February 2018}}
Administered by the Objectspace charitable trust, the gallery receives support from Creative New Zealand and The Friends of Objectspace.{{cite web|title=Objectspace About us|url=http://www.objectspace.org.nz/About-Us/|website=Objectspace|access-date=9 December 2014}}{{cite web|title=Arts Leadership Investment|url=http://www.creativenz.govt.nz/en/results-of-our-work/who-got-funded/funding-rounds/arts-leadership-investment-toi-totara-haemata-2011-4?page=2&sort=artform_name&utf8=%E2%9C%93|website=Creative New Zealand|publisher=Ministry for Culture and Heritage|access-date=9 December 2014}}
The 2017 trustees are:
- Andrew Barrie
- Ben Corban (Chair)
- Kristin D’Agostino
- Tommy Honey
- Kim Smith
- Kimina Styche
- Pauline Ray
- Deborah Crowe
- Kolokesa Mahina-Tuai
- Cathy Veninga.
The trustees have appointed Octavia Cook, Marianne Hargreaves, Justine Olsen and Areta Wilkinson as special advisors.
Master of Craft series
The Objectspace Masters of Craft exhibition series highlights a New Zealand practitioner and is accompanied by a publication. Former chair Warwick Freeman writes 'A Master of Craft is someone who has acquired a deep understanding around a particular making practice. They make work that is honed by the experience of doing something very well for a very long time'.{{cite web|title=Masters of Craft|url=http://objectspace.org.nz/Objectspace-Masters-of-Craft/|website=Objectspace|access-date=9 December 2014}} Artists who have been recognized in this series include:
- industrial designer Peter Haythornthwaite (2018){{cite web|title=Design Generation|url=http://www.objectspace.org.nz/exhibitions/design-generation/|website=Objectspace|access-date=2 March 2018|language=en}}
- graphic designer Mark Cleverley (2014){{cite book|last1=Valentine|first1=Jonty|title=Mark Cleverley: designer|date=2014|publisher=David Bateman|location=Auckland|isbn=9781869538699}}
- interior designer Nanette Cameron (2013){{cite book|last1=Cameron|first1=Kirsty|last2=Lockhart|first2=Katie|last3=Stone|first3=Vivienne|title=Nanette Cameron: Interior design legend|date=2013|publisher=Objectspace|location=Auckland|oclc=871006704}}
- jeweller Kobi Bosshard (2012)
- potter Richard Parker (2011){{cite book|last1=Fahey|first1=Richard|title=Richard Parker: masters of craft|date=2011|publisher=Objectspace|location=Auckland|isbn=9780987650207}}
2017 relocation and extension of mission
In 2017 Objectspace moved from its original premises to new premises at 13 Rose Road in Ponsonby, Auckland.{{cite news|title=Twelve questions with Objectspace director Kim Paton|agency=New Zealand Herald}} The new gallery has increased space for exhibitions.{{cite web|last1=Barratt|first1=Michael|title=Objectspace gallery reinvents itself as an architecture and design destination|url=http://www.noted.co.nz/culture/arts/objectspace-gallery-reinvents-itself-as-an-architecture-and-design-destination/|website=Noted|access-date=28 July 2017}} The move was driven by an increase in Objectspace's funding from Creative New Zealand, to include the disciplines of architecture and design alongside craft and applied art. The opening exhibitions included an installation in the new courtyard space by Warwick Freeman, an exhibition of a collaboration between typographer Kris Sowersby and design agency Alt Group, and FutureIslands, a restaging of the New Zealand presentation at the 2016 Venice Biennale of Architecture. The new gallery opened on 27 July 2017.
References
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External links
- [http://www.objectspace.org.nz/ Objectspace website]
- [http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/standing-room-only/audio/201783589/objectspace's-crafty-plans Interview with director Kim Paton], Standing Room Only, RNZ National, 20 December 2015
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