Venue: The Todd Foundation Room 1^st Floor

Museum of WellingtonCity & Sea

Queens WharfWellington (Opposite the Academy Galleries)

No Bookings required. Free entry.

 Simon Manchester.  Collecting New Zealand Applied Arts
The Todd Foundation Room, Friday 7 Sept 1-2pm

Consultant for Applied Arts at Dunbar Sloane, Wellington-based Simon Manchester is an authority on New Zealand ceramics and collections from the studio period of the 1930s to the present day.  He has a comprehensive knowledge of local ceramics, encompassing the post-war period and the country’s engagement with international arts practice throughout the 1950s and 60s. In this lecture he considers relationships between ceramic objects in the broader context of the Applied Arts and collecting.

The Todd Foundation Room, Friday 7 Sept 4-5pm

David Trubridge has received numerous international awards for his designs.  In 2008 French magazine Express listed him as one of the top 15 designers in the world.  In this lecture he will discuss the segregation of art, design and craft and the creative process and the associated knowledge, experience and skills they all share.

‘Kete Arounui (bamboo basket), spiritual world Kete Tuaatea (polycarbonate basket) and our rational world Kete Tuauri (aluminium basket). The knowledge needs to be in balance for us to live harmoniously on Earth.’ David Trubridge.

A discussion panel with Megan Tamati-Quennell, Karl Chitham, Reuben Friend and Rangi Kipa: Weaving a Path - Maori Craft and Design in 2012.

The Todd Foundation Room, Saturday 2-3pm.

The aim of this discussion panel is to offer an insight into Maori Practitioners, galleries and audiences within an indigenous framework.

Megan Tanati-Quennell, Curator Contemporary Maori and Indigienous Art, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Karl Chitham, Curator Art, Rotorua Museum Te Whare Taonga O Te Arawa. Reuben Friend, Curator Maori and Pacific Art, City Gallery Wellington. Rangi Kipa, Artist. Please see pdf for Iwi affiliations.

The Todd Foundation Room, Saturday 8 Sept 3-4pm.

Dr Jessica Payne is a material and technology responsive designer/artist whose research practice is sited within the discipline of Textiles. She has been actively involved in and at the forefront of innovative and radical changes that have happened within the Textile Design field over the past twenty years.  Her recent work has been exhibited at: the 6^TH International Biennial of Contemporary Textile Art in the Diego Rivera Museum, Mexico City; Somewhat different: Contemporary design and the power of convention, Wellington; Amazing Lace, Pataka Museum of Arts and Culture, Porirua City and at the opening event for the Campaign for Wool held in Wellington. She will discuss the emergence of a significant number of artisan/designers whose work explores the conceptual and aesthetic potential of integrating materials, technologies and processes from different design fields.

Kevin Murray Biculturalism in 21^st century Craft of the South.

The Todd Foundation Room, Saturday 8 Sept 4-5pm

Kevin Murray discusses the relative distance between indigenous cultures and Aboriginal and settler cultures in Australasia in the 21^st century. Does the practice of a jeweller in Aotearoa New Zealand, such as Areta Wilkinson, provide an example for current bicultural methodology? Kevin Murray is a Melbourne-based curator and academic and online editor for the Journal of Modern Craft. He was Executive Director at Craft Victoria from 2000 until 2007 and has curated exhibitions such as Guild Unlimited: Ten Jewellers make insignia for potential guilds, and Common Goods: Cultures Meet through Craft for the 2006 Commonwealth Games.

Christchurch and filling in the gaps.           

The Todd Foundation Room, Sunday 9 Sept 4-5pm

Andrew Just is an architectural designer and advocate for transitional architecture, its design and engagement with city planning, as fundamental to the well-being of communities. He has been involved in transitional architecture designs in Christchurch following 22 February 2011, developing affordable and environmentally friendly solutions to the city’s new spaces. Andrew will discuss the potential for transitional and temporary designs to simultaneously fulfil the immediate and long-term needs of communities.

Museum of WellingtonCity & Sea, Wellington City Council, Newstalk NZ, Dunbar Sloane, and the Museum Hotel.