Craft/Object Art Fellowship Call For Applications
Creative New Zealand Media release
Date: 15 November 2004
Creative New Zealand calls for applications to its 2005 Craft/Object Art Fellowship
Creative New Zealand is
calling for applications to the 2005 Creative New Zealand
Craft/Object Art Fellowship, worth $65,000. Established last
year, this annual fellowship is the largest craft/object art
fellowship or award available in New Zealand.
The Fellowship is open to mid-career and senior New Zealand practitioners, curators and writers - ranging from jewellers, weavers and ceramicists through to furniture-makers and designers. The closing date is 25 March 2005 and the recipient will be required to complete a project over a 12-month period.
The Fellowship was established in response to recommendations in a strategy for the craft/object art sector, developed by Creative New Zealand in close consultation with the sector.
Applicants should demonstrate that they have a strong national reputation and have been critically acclaimed for the work they have produced. Creative New Zealand will be inviting external peer assessors to assist with the decision-making process.
This year's recipient was Waiheke Island artist Malcolm Harrison, who designed and created a major multi-media artwork in the Galleria of the refurbished Parliament Buildings. When he received the fellowship, Harrison said: "I feel total freedom to focus solely on my new project for a whole year. It's also wonderful to have my peers say, 'You've done a good job and just keep going'."
The fellowship is supporting Harrison to continue his work on a series entitled Euro Retro.
Applications to
the 2005 Creative New Zealand Craft/Object Art Fellowship
close at 5pm on Friday 25 March 2005. For more information
and guidelines please contact Elizabeth Caldwell, Creative
New Zealand (Tel: 04-498 0737 Email:
elizabethc@creativenz.govt.nz). Guidelines are also
available on the resources page of Creative New Zealand's
website ( www.creativenz.govt.nz
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