FROM THE ARTS FOUNDATION OF NEW ZEALAND

Issue #15

July | 2008

IN THIS ISSUE

Applause is the biannual newsletter of the Arts Foundation of New Zealand. It provides news information on artists supported by the Arts Foundation, announcements about Awards and reports on other activities.

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Foundation Flourishes

2008 Award for Patronage•

New Residency Announced•

Featured Icon – Patricia Grace•

Featured Laureate – Elizabeth Knox•

Featured New Generation Artist – •

Eve Armstrong

Art, Film Music Now: New Generation •

Artists Talk About Their Work

Artists – includes a Laureate/New •

Generation collaborative project

Governance•

Featured Sponsors•

Third term for Forsyth Barr as •

Principal Sponsor

September this year is the tenth anniversary of the signing of the Foundation’s Deed of Trust. Formal celebrations of the fi rst decade of activity are scheduled for 2010. The Foundation was launched as a private vehicle to support artistic excellence through the establishment of an endowment. In a short time it has evolved into a family of artists, sponsors, funders and private supporters who have come together to enjoy the arts now as well as contributing to future artistic achievement.

This edition of Applause features the announcement of a two yearly artist residency in New York. This brings the total number of programmes that provide recognition and support for artists to six. These programmes are Icon, Laureate, New Generation and Marti Friedlander Photographic Awards, the Award for Patronage and the Harriet Friedlander Residency. In addition, the Foundation produces Forsyth Barr Laureates On-Stage, of which over 50 have been presented nationwide,

~ Warwick Broadhead from Rubbings from a Live Man a fi lm by Florian Habicht (Recipient Harriet Friedlander Residency). Photo by Frank Habicht ~

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and recently established Art, Film Music Now; New Generation Artists Talk About their Work. It is also commissioning oral histories of Icon Artists and acts as an advocate and adviser in many ways.

Also in addition, Forsyth Barr announce renewal of their Principal Sponsorship for a further term (see page 12).

“So many people are part of the Foundation’s growth. There are too many to mention and too many to thank,” said Ros Burdon, Arts Foundation Chairman. “Following the initial donation of $5 million from the Lottery Grants Board, the private sector has gathered around the Foundation to ensure that it is effective and continues to grow. We are proud of what we have achieved, and this is just the beginning. The Foundation’s potential is just as exciting as its past and all are welcome tobe part of it”.

Visit www.artsfoundation.org.nz

It is admirable to see how the Foundation has fl ourished since [its launch]. In 2000 it gave its fi rst awards—$150,000 to fi ve Laureate Artists. To date, it has distributed $1.89 million to 78 recipients—as well as honouring 21 of New Zealand’s greatest artists as Icons. All this activity and the Foundation doesn’t even celebrate its fi rst decade of activity until 2010.Governor General, The Honourable Anand Satyanand, PCNZM, QSO.

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ARTS FOUNDATION OF NEW ZEALAND AWARD FOR PATRONAGE 2008 RECIPIENTS OF AWARD FOR PATRONAGE DONATIONS

~ Gillian and Roderick Deane Photo by Chris McCarthy & Melanie Dixon ~

Jonathan Lemalu is a sought-after talent on the international concert, operatic and recital circuit, known for his powerful, warm and captivating bass baritone voice. Booked years ahead for prestigious European and American concert halls, and with a three year recording contract with EMI Classics, Jonathan’s talent is drawing the spotlight on a world stage. Critics and audiences in many countries have responded to his stage presence and intelligent interpretive ability.

~ Jonathan Lemalu – Photo by Alastair Thain ~

Anna Leese is an emerging soprano opera singer who made her debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in 2007, as Musetta in Puccini’s La Bohème. She is a member of the Benjamin Britten International Opera School at the Royal College of Music, and made her debut at the 2006 BBC Proms in an all Mozart programme with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Sir Roger Norrington. Anna is also an Associate Artist of the Classical Opera Company, with whom she most recently sang Countess in Le nozze di Figaro.

Generous Arts Supporters – Gillian & Roderick Deane

Whatever small contributions we are able to make to the arts and the other

activities which we support, is much more than matched by the enjoyment

and pleasure we receive from being able to help other people in a small way.

Gillian Deane

Gillian and Roderick are very supportive of a wide range of charities and are most deserving recipients of this Award. Perpetual Trust enjoys working with Gillian and Roderick on a variety of matters and is proud to be presentingsponsor of this Award to them.

Louise Edwards, Chief Executive, Perpetual Trust

Gillian and Roderick Deane have quietly and consistently provided decades of signifi cantsupport to the arts. They havecontributed to a multitude of arts projects, organisations and artists, and have always directedtheir assistance with carefulconsideration and a heartfelt desire to see people succeed. Many of the artists supported have become friends and enjoy their guidance and moral support. TheArts Foundation of New Zealand is proud to honour the Deanes as model patrons and great contributors to the arts in New Zealand. Ros Burdon, Chair, Arts Foundation of New Zealand

I have always been amazed by the Deanes’ humility, warmth and generosity. For such respected members of New Zealand society, it is hard to believe they would take an interest in a young man from Dunedin who had nothing but a joy for singing…They have become a huge part of my family life, and support and encourage me in all I do.

New Zealand artists are so lucky to have the Deanes as patrons, not only for their incredible fi nancial support, but also for their genuine interest in forwarding careers and making it easier for us to do well in our chosen paths.

~ Delia Mathews - Photo by Johan Persson ~

Delia Mathews was judged one of the best young dancers in Britain at the age of 16. From Tauranga, Delia studied at the Royal Ballet School in London having entered the school at 15, the youngest in the intake of students that year from around the world. Delia has won numerous national awards including twice, as the highest placed girl, in the Young British Dancer of the Year Award, the Jury Grand Prize in Beijing and as a laureate at the Prix de Lausanne. She has performed with the Royal Ballet Company and the Birmingham Royal Ballet Company. Delia graduates in July 2008 after which she joins the Birmingham Royal Ballet Company. Her ultimate goal is to become a principal dancer.

I am indebted to Dr & Mrs Deane for their generosity in supporting me over the last three years. They showed a belief in me when I started at the Royal Ballet School and have been my only New Zealand funders. They have showed great interest in and support of me for which I am extremely grateful.

~ Members of the TOWER New Zealand Youth Choir, Onlinefotos Ltd ~

The TOWER New Zealand Youth Choir has gained an international reputation, following eight overseas tours, and a large following nationally through their numerous New Zealand performances. Formed in 1979, the Choir’s international successes began in 1986 when it won the Youth Choir section of the Let the People Sing competition. It has gone on to win other international competitions including Choir of the World at the International Music Eisteddfod in Wales and best Mixed Choir at the 2007 International Festival of Music in Spain. Twelve recordings have been released and the choir provided backing vocals on the two ENZSO album releases. The TOWER New Zealand Youth Choir’s Artistic Director is Dr Karen Grylls.

In 1989, under Roderick Deane’s guidance, Electricorp became sponsor of the National Youth Choir at a critical time in the Choir’s history. Roderick and Gillian’s ongoing personal support for the Choir and for individual alumni, many of whom have gone on to international careers, has been substantial. We are immensely grateful to them both and are delighted that they are being appropriate recognised.

Alan Walmsley, Chairman – TOWER New Zealand Youth Choir

The Arts Foundation of New Zealand Award for Patronage was established in 2003 to honour individuals who are generous in their support for the arts. Arts Patrons are active participants in the arts with in-depth knowledge of artists and arts organisations and a proven ability to identify talent.

The Arts Foundation was proud to announce Gillian and Roderick Deane as the 2008 Award for Patronage recipients. The event was hosted by their Excellencies the Governor-General of New Zealand the Hon Anand and Susan Satyanand at Government House on Thursday, 29 May. The event included a performance by the New Zealand String Quartet, which has previously received support from the Deanes. Foalima Lemalu (Jonathan Lemalu’s father), spoke on behalf of the recipients. To mark the occasion, Gillian and Roderick were presented with a pounamu artwork by stone-artist Chris Charteris. They accepted the Award, in part, as a means of further promoting the work of the artists they have supported.

An annual gift of $20,000 from the Arts Foundation is made to a philanthropist, selected by Foundation Trustees, for their distribution to artists, arts projects or organisations of their choosing. Donation recipients are celebrated as high achieving artists or organisations who are welcomed into the Foundation’s family of honoured and supported artists. Gillian and Roderick generously chose to double the $20,000, meaning a total of $40,000 was distributed to their selected artists. The Award for Patronage is presented by Perpetual Trust.

Gillian and Roderick Deane created the Deane Endowment Trust in memory of their daughter Kristen, to assist and benefi t the community and individuals in the fi elds of the arts and culture,

scientifi c research, education, the environment, disability, and the work of charitable voluntary organisations. The Trust focus on the arts and culture is by way of sponsorship of a number of exhibitions and publications by a range of Art Galleries and Museums; by the use of scholarships and grants, especially for educational purposes for young singers, musicians, dancers and artists exhibiting outstanding potential; and through donations to a number of classical music and opera organisations particularly those centred in Wellington.

Arts organisations and individuals are too numerous to mention, but include: major grants to most major and some smaller art galleries in the Wellington region; sponsorships of the NZ Symphony Orchestra, Tower Voices and other major music organisations; awards and scholarships in a number of areas to young people establishing themselves in the academic world and on the international stage; contributions toward publications including a range of books and catalogues and the promotion and establishment of a number of charitable trusts including the Arts Foundation of New Zealand. The Deanes’ generosity has also spread across the Tasman with a number of Australian organisations receiving support.

Gillian and Roderick made a signifi cant contribution in the early years of the Arts Foundation’s life by joining as Founding Patrons. Gillian also offered valuable insight to the working party during the Foundation’s conceptual period. With her understanding of the arts and the need for patronage, Gillian helped formulate the vision and the mechanism for achieving the Arts Foundation’s business plan.

~ Anna Leese ~

The Arts Foundation of New Zealand Award for Patronage is made annually to a person, couple, or private trust for outstanding private contributions to the arts. The Award for Patronage is presented by Perpetual Trust

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PATRICIA GRACE – “A KEY FIGURE IN THE EMERGENCE OF MAORI FICTION” New Zealand Book Council

FEATURED ICON ARTIST

Florian Habicht – Inaugural Recipient

Florian Habicht is one of New Zealand’s leading underground fi lmmakers. His digital feature Woodenhead, a surreal musical fairytale, became a cult hit in New Zealand and screened at a range of leading international fi lm festivals.

Born in Germany, Florian moved to New Zealand at the age of eight with his family. He has directed a number of fi lms including Liebesträume 2000, Woodenhead 2003 and Kaikohe Demolition 2004. Woodenhead is renowed for the innovation of recording the dialogue before shooting the fi lm using different actors and Kaikohe Demolition won the Best Digital Feature at the New Zealand Screen Awards in the year it was released. Florian has also developed a feature script Permissive Paradise at the Binger Filmlab in Amsterdam.

Recently Florian completed the feature Rubbings From a Live Man, documentary performed by and based on the life of Warwick Broadhead which he co-produced with Philippa Campbell. Long time collaborator Chris Pryor is Director of Photography. Rubbings From a Live Man will premiere in the New Zealand International Film Festival in July. Florian says of this production “in a career that spans forty years, Warwick Broadhead has conceived, directed and performed in over sixty original shows presented in a huge variety of venues both in New Zealand and abroad. He has never allowed his work to be recorded. But now, faced with a fi lm maker’s provocations, the fl amboyant performer is pushed to re-enact the highest and the lowest moments of his life using his own cast of alter egos.” (See image front cover).

Florian is currently developing another documentary Land of the Long White Cloud. He likes the idea of having time in New York to “develop a new script, keeping some kind of visual diary, organising some screenings of Woodenhead, Kaikohe Demolition and Live Man”. He is also hoping Rubbings From a Live Man will screen in the Tribecca Film Festival.

Florian is a surprising, resourceful, thoroughly independent fi lm-maker and artist. He is a true original - atonce a fantasist and a documentary-maker, a dreamer and an observer. In two strikingly different fi lms -Woodenhead and Kaikohe Demolition- Florian has set about imaginativelyreinventing the province of Northland(where he spent much of his childhood).To my mind, he has already opened up for himself a huge fi eld of artisticpossibility. And the next few years will yield some remarkable results. NewYork will be a fantastic opportunity forhim to make new work and to presenthis existing work to audiences who,believe me, are going to be thrilled,amused and touched by it.

Gregory O’Brien

Patricia Grace, DCNZM, QSO, Ngati Toa, Ngati Raukawa and Te Ati Awa, is a leading New Zealand writer who has been a key fi gure in the emergence of Maori writing in English since the mid 1970s. Her writing articulates Maori values and consciousness, with an emphasis on their expression in a variety of communities and includes novels, short-stories and children’s writing.

Patricia’s works have been published in the United States, United Kingdom, Holland, Spain, French Polynesia and Germany, with her novel Potiki translated into several languages. Patricia’s latest book Maraea and the Albatrosses/Ko Maraea Me Nga Toroa, was released in early June with a hardback edition in English and a Māori-language paperback edition. Illustrations are by her brother Brian Gunson and the translation by her husband Waiariki. Patricia is currently involved in turning her book Cousins into a film and is enjoying the experience of working with others. She has teamed up with film-maker Merata Mita and

~ Patricia Grace ~

Born in Wellington in 1937 •

Early work published in Te Ao Hou and the • New Zealand Listener

Waiariki• , 1975, won the PEN/Hubert Church Award for Best First Book of Fiction

Mutuwhenua• , 1978, first novel ever published by a Māori woman writer; short-listed for the fiction section of the 1979 New Zealand Book Awards

Awarded the Victoria University writing fellowship in 1985 •

Potiki• won the fi ction section of the 1987 New Zealand Book Awards

Electric City and Other Stories• published in 1987

Selected Stories• published in 1991

The Sky People• , a collection of short stories, published in 1994

Cousins• , 1992, short-listed for the fi ction section of that year’s New Zealand Book Awards

The fi rst story in Patricia Grace’s very fi rst book is called “A Way of Talking”. All of her work explores the ways in which we talk to each other, and sometimes the ways in which we fail in conversation. She can write with real political edge, and her gaze is always steady and clear-sighted. Yet there is also a great generosity in the tales she tells. She celebrates community and the continuities of place and time. She looks for the poetry in the ordinary ways we share our lives.Bill Manhire, Director, International Institute of Modern Letters

~ Florian Habicht ~

~ Woodhead Poster created by Teresa Peters ~

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THE HARRIET FRIEDLANDER RESIDENCY

On 26 June at Starkwhite Gallery, Auckland, the Harriet Friedlander Scholarship Trust and the Arts Foundation launched a new international residency. A dedicated supporter of the arts, Harriet Friedlander also loved the vibrant culture of New York. She believed that any young artist exposed to the city would learn and grow in unimaginable ways with the fruits of this born out through his or her work. However, when Michael and Harriet Friedlander and their sons Jason and Daniel designed the residency, Harriet was clear that she did not want to place any expectations or responsibilities on the recipient. An artist was to be sent to New York to have an “experience”, all expenses paid, so that they could immerse themselves in the culture to be processed in their own way.

Ron Brownson, Senior Curator New Zealand and Pacific Art, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, knew Harriet well and said, “Harriet Friedlander was a committed advocate of contemporary art. She recognised how artists share their vision and inspiration with us. Art was an indispensable ingredient within Harriet’s life; she needed to experience art everyday”.

One of the most generous residencies offered to a New Zealand artist, up to $80,000 will be made available every two years for their travel and living expenses. This opportunity is available to an artist aged 30 to 40, practicing in any discipline. The recipient is to be selected without their knowing they are under consideration by a curator appointed by the Foundation. The inaugural curator was Gregory O’Brien, who has also been given the task of selecting the 2008 New Generation Artists.

After conducting nationwide consultation, Gregory selected Florian Habicht as the inaugural recipient. One of New Zealand’s most progressive and prolific young filmmakers, Florian couldn’t believe the timing of his selection. When Executive Director, Simon Bowden called Florian to ask if he would accept the offer, he had just returned from a test screening of an all-consuming three year project. While waiting for a flight in the Auckland International Airport, he speculated on the fact he no plans for the future. He watched a plane take off and dreamed about journeying overseas to reflect and develop ideas. The offer of the residency came at the perfect time for Florian. Who knows what impact it will have on his career?

~ Harriet Friedlander ~

Man, this is even better than winning the best decorated bicycle award at Paihia Primary! …seriously, I’m very moved to be given this incredible opportunity. It still feels surreal, even after having heard the news in April.Florian Habicht reacts to the news of his New York residency

The Harriet Friedlander Residency is the Arts Foundation’s second partnership programme following the establishment of the Marti Friedlander Photographic Award. In addition to providing Awards and projects of its own design, the Foundation assists third parties to establish and administer programmes to achieve their objectives. Projects must meet the Foundation’s criteria of supporting artistic excellence, be substantial, self-funding and permanent.

Recipients of programmes produced in partnership with third parties are welcomed into the Foundation’s family of honoured artists. Announcements are celebrated at events and the career of the recipient is tracked through Foundation publications. The Foundation can provide administration services, selection of recipients and management of endowments to fund programmes. In all cases, projects can be perpetuated beyond the lifetimes of the founders. The Foundation welcomes enquires about third party projects.

Patricia Grace has always been a writer with both cultural and artistic integrity. If her work, from the very beginning, has been driven by an impulse to challenge lingering colonial stereotypes of Maori and contribute towards greater understanding of who we are, the translation of this impulse into works of fi ction has never come at the expense of aesthetics. That her work has attracted a lot of attention not just here in New Zealand but internationally is testimony to Grace’s skill in creating fi ctional worlds that, while always culturally specifi c, are never parochial.

Simone Drichel, Lecturer in New Zealand and Postcolonial Literature, University of Otago

TV producer Rhonda Kite. They have formed a company, Pairama Pictures, to develop the film, which will be produced by Robyn Laing.

Patricia was named the 2008 laureate of the US$50,000 (NZ$65,695) Neustadt International Prize for Literature late last year. She is the 20th Neustadt laureate and the fourth woman to win the prize. The honour, administered by the University of Oklahoma and its international magazine World Literature Today, is judged by an international jury and widely considered to be the most prestigious international literary prize after the Nobel. In announcing the 2008 Neustadt laureate, Robert Con Davis-Undiano, Neustadt Professor and Executive Director of World Literature Today said: “This award is landmark recognition of an indigenous writer and gives a strong sense of the direction of important literature in the 21st century.”

Patricia will travel to America to receive the award in late September.

Baby No-Eyes• , 1998 short-listed for the Tasmania Pacifi c Region Prize for Literature

Awarded the Queen’s Service Order in 1988, an Honorary • Doctorate of Literature from Victoria University in 1989 and the LiBeraturpreis from Frankfurt, Germany, for Potiki in 1994

Dogside Story won the Kiriyama Pacifi c Rim Fiction Book • Prize in 2001, was long-listed for the Booker Prize, short-listed for the fi ction prize of the Montana Book Awards and the Tasmania Pacifi c Region Prize for Literature in 2002

Tu won the Deutz Medal for Fiction or Poetry at the • Montana New Zealand Book Awards in 2005

Awarded the $60,000 Prime Minister’s Award for Literary • Achievement in 2006

Acknowledged in the Queen’s birthday honours list, • becoming a Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit (CNZM) for her services to literature in 2007

The Arts Foundation of New Zealand Icon Awards honours art makers that have achieved the highest standards of artistic expression. Limited to a living circle of twenty, these artists are our Icons, each celebrated for demonstrating the highest standards of artistic excellence.

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Elizabeth Knox, writer, was one of fi ve inaugural Laureates who received their awards in 2000. One of New Zealand’s most well-known writers, the Arts Foundation has followed Elizabeth’s output, since receiving her Award, with interest. Over this period she has published six new novels, receiving several accolades including as an Offi cer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM). Elizabeth has also been generous with her time with the Arts Foundation, entertaining and enlightening audiences at several Forsyth Barr Laureates On-Stage events around the country and appearing as guest newsreader at the 2007 Laureate Awards.

Elizabeth has just completed The Angel’s Cut (working title), a sequel to The Vintner’s Luck. She is also working on a collection of her essays for Victoria University Press, and polishing the proofs of the single volume, Voyager edition of Dreamhunter and Dreamquake, retitled The Invisible Road, which will be released in July of this year. She is also well into writing Wake, a horror/science fi ction novel set in a small, New Zealand beachside town.

Elizabeth and her partner Fergus Barrowman visited France in May, and the set of Niki Caro’s fi lm adaption of The Vintner’s Luck. Elizabeth and Fergus appear as extras - ‘two peasants with a mirror’. Elizabeth has been invited to appear at the annual conference of the American Library Association in early July.

It’s the imagination which makes the human condition so fascinating – except perhaps to professional geologists. Elizabeth Knox has a big brain and a huge appetite for knowledge, so you feel extended when you read her. But above all, she is one of our great champions of the imagination – along with Janet Frame and Margaret Mahy. That’s why her books are so wonderful: she knows how people feel, she loves the power of story, and she can always think of one more place to go.Bill Manhire, Director, International Institute of Modern Letters

Born 1959•

First novel, • After Z-Hour, 1987

Treasure• , 1992; shortlisted for the 1993 New Zealand Book Award for Fiction

Awarded the ICI Young Writers Bursary, a Scholarship in • Letters,1993

Glamour and the Sea• ,1996

Trilogy of novellas – Paremata, 1989, and Pomare ,1994, • completed by Tawa,1998

Awarded the Victoria University writing fellowship 1997•

The Vintner’s Luck• , 1998

The Katherine Mansfi eld Fellow in Menton, France,1999•

The Vintner’s Luck• won the Deutz Medal for Fiction at the 1999 Montana New Zealand Book Awards and the Readers’ Choice and Booksellers’ Choice awards; shortlisted for the 1999 Orange Prize and in 2001 awarded the inaugural Tasmania Pacifi c Region Prize

Eve Armstrong’s art practice emphasises the use of discarded materials. She is known for the socially responsive nature of her work, which often acts as a conduit for discussion and exchange.

Not seeing the logic of introducing new materials to her works, Eve prefers to bring objects and ideas back into circulation. These are often formed through the research, collection and reconstruction of waste. Eve collects objects and material-refuse. In her work Arrangements, 2003 – present, Eve collects objects organising them into sculptural stacks, piles, collages and assemblages, within layered packaging tape landscapes. Eve’s project The Trading Table, involves her setting up tables at various, often busy and public locations, and facilitating the exchange of objects, skills, ideas and information with passers by. Impromptu trades have included recipes, offers of skilled labour and even relationship advice via email.

These projects are typical of Eve’s art practice and her interest in investigating systems of exchange, waste and recycling to reveal differing attitudes towards material use and value. In 2003, Eve

~ Eve Armstrong at the 2006 New Generation Award ~ ~ Get-Go, 2007, Rubbish bag, rubbish bin, placemat, polystyrene, tissues, paper, Courtesy of Michael Lett ~

Born in 1978•

Grew up in Upper Hutt•

Worked as Assistant Editor on the teen and children’s • pages for the Evening Post

Studied textiles at Nelson Polytechnic•

Graduated from Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland • University in 2003, majoring in Sculpture

Held fi rst major solo exhibition ROAM, Artspace, • Auckland, 2005

Participated in SCAPE 2006 Biennial of Art in Public • Space, Christchurch

Was the 2006 Summer Artist in Residence at Enjoy Public • Art Gallery, Wellington

Participated in the Busan Biennale 2006, Korea and • Turbulence: 3rd Auckland Triennial 2007

Gallery Co-ordinator at Artstation, an Auckland-based • community arts facility from 2004-2008

ELIZABETH KNOX – “AN IMAGINATION THAT IS BOTH VAST AND RELENTLESS IN ITS PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH” Sarah May, the Guardian

FEATURED LAUREATE ARTISTEVE ARMSTRONG – A PASSION FOR TRADE, EXCHANGE, SUPPORT STRUCTURES AND ADAPTABILITY

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~ Elizabeth Knox, home library ~

I usually have a number of ideas for novels circling in a holding pattern. I’m never sure which idea is the fi rst in the queue. And I don’t begin writing till I get what I call ‘a book-starting idea’, the idea that makes it possible for a cluster of notions for a novel to consolidate and start generating their own heat. The book-starting idea is like a starter motor in a car; it makes the big engine of a novel turn over.

Elizabeth Knox, from an interview on the Shaken and Stirred website

Black Oxen• , 2001

Billie’s Kiss• , 2002, short listed in the 2002 Montana New Zealand Book Awards

Awarded an ONZM for her services to literature in the • 2002 New Zealand Queen’s Birthday honours list

Daylight• , 2003, shortlisted for Best Book in the South Pacifi c & South East Asian Region of the 2004 Commonwealth Writers Prize

Dreamhunter• , 2005, won the 2006 Esther Glen Award for a work considered to be the most distinguished contribution to New Zealand Children’s literature; selected as an ALA (American Library Association) Best Book for Young Adults 2007

Part Two of the Dreamhunter Duet, • Dreamquake, 2007, won a Michael L Printz Award Honour in 2008 and ALA, CCBC, Booklist and New York Library best book awards in the same year

Eve’s practice tends to fall uneasily between the formal, the relational, and the environmental. Her work is of the unwanted surpluses of urban environments, but it seems to have no position on that, nor does it appear to offer any solutions. Instead, Eve’s focus is on taking an otherwise unwanted object or resource and adapting it – extending or adding to its physical as well as formal functionality. What have become her signature materials to date - fl attened cardboard, packing tape, and disowned property - recur not only for their physical and aesthetic functions, but for their ready availability and subsequent ability to sink back into the world.Michael Lett

produced a book entitled How to Hold A Trading Table: A Manual for Beginners with support from the Creative Communities Scheme in Auckland. This manual has recently been republished and is available from Michael Lett.

In early 2008 Eve was selected for an Asia New Zealand Foundation artist residency in Hong Kong. She began her residency in April, participating in a month long series of planned workshops with three other international artists and four local counterparts. Eve’s work is currently featured in Earth Matters at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, an exhibition which includes work by artists who make reference to themes of global and environmental concern. The exhibition runs to 28 September.

Eve is represented by Michael Lett, Auckland.

The Arts Foundation of New Zealand New Generation Awards celebrate early achievement. Biennally, fi ve artists are awarded $25,000 each, donated by Freemasons New Zealand. Each artist must have developed an individual identity demonstrating strength and quality in their particular art form. The New Generation Awards are presented by Freemasons New Zealand.

I always work with what’s around me - my environment, found objects, and people. I gently adapt or extend these existing relationships and connections to reveal new potentials.

Eve Armstrong

The Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureate Awards are awarded annually to celebrate fi ve talented artists whose careers are in full fl ight. The Award of $50,000 each is made in recognition of the artist’s achievements to date and as an investment in their future. The Laureate Awards are presented by Forsyth Barr.

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Artists Acknowledged In Queen’s Birthday Honours

On 28 March in Dunedin, the Arts Foundation of New Zealand, in association with Freemasons New Zealand, introduced Art, Film, Music Now: New Generation Artists Talk About Their Work. This event, the fi rst of three programmed for 2008, featured three of the inaugural New Generation Artists – visual artist Eve Armstrong, musician Warren Maxwell and stone artist Joe Sheehan.

At the event, each artist presented elements of their practice and refl ection upon their creative processes. The discussion focussed on the use of symbolism in their work, considered alongside an exploration of Freemason symbols presented by Rob Cope-Williams. Connections were clearly spelt out by Chair Kate De Goldi (2001 Laureate) who found the presentation by Rob “fascinating”. As Kate said “the connections between Freemasonry and artistic endeavour effl oresced in front of my eyes…It occurred to me Freemasons are

Warren Maxwell and his band Little Bushman are working on a joint project with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, along with Laureate and internationally-renowned composer John Psathas on Sunday, July 13 at the Great Hall of the Auckland Town Hall. The band will perform songs from its two critically acclaimed albums – Onus of Sand and Pendulum – with a full orchestra, scored by John Psathas.

The concert has been in the planning for over a year, and the Orchestra and who, according to CEO Barbara Glaser, is honoured to be involved in the collaboration. “Warren is such an important fi gure in New Zealand music and has a background that encompasses many genres. Their music is also so expansive that the potential for orchestration is huge and that is incredibly exciting for us.”

On receiving his Laureate Award John Reynolds announced he wished to use the funds on a collaborative project with a number of people, and outside his usual studio practice. The result of this is a limited edition

book CERTAIN WORDS DRAWN, which took over a year to create, working in partnership with Arch MacDonnell at InHouse Design and editor Laurence Simmons, and twelve writers (including fellow Laureate, Ian Wedde). The book is published by Random House and covers a number of John’s projects over the last few years. It is an artist’s book rather than a monograph in the sense that it’s visually-driven, presents new work developed for the book, and broadly speculates rather than concludes. CERTAIN WORDS DRAWN was launched at ARTSPACE, Auckland in June. The book is a limited edition of 1,500 copies only and is available through Random House.

Edith Amituanai (inaugural recipient of the Marti Friedlander Photographic Award) and John Reynolds (2006 Laureate) have been selected with Lisa Reihana and Peter Robinson as nominees for the 2008 Walters Prize. The international judge for the 2008 prize will be named later this year, with the winner announced at a gala dinner in late October. The winner receives $50,000, an all expenses paid trip to New York and the opportunity to exhibit their work at Saatchi & Saatchi’s world headquarters. Works will be exhibited at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki New Gallery from 13 September to 23 November 2008.

Two of Edith’s images Francine and Shiloh were in the exhibition Te Tahi Maui: A Survey of 20 Years of Photography from the graduates of Unitec at Artstation, Auckland. The images are the result of a trip Edith had to Samoa this year, her fi rst in 20 years. Edith says “Francine, the image of an outdoor living room, takes its name from one of the homeowner’s daughters who used the name as her internet pseudonym. Although I felt an immediate connection to my ancestral homeland, as a visitor I

Laureate John Psathas And New Generation Artist Warren Maxwell Meet The Auckland Philharmonia

Laureate Award Enables New Work

Big In Russia, Mate!

~ Edith Amituanai, Francine 2008 ~ ~ Photographs courtesy Anna Miles Gallery ~

~ Edith Amituanai, Shiloh, 2008 ~

~ John Psathas (Laureate) and Warren Maxwell (New Generation artist) ~

Barry Barclay passed away at his home in Northland on 19 February. Ros Burdon, Arts Foundation Chairman said that “the Arts Foundation was proud it was able to honour Barry with a Laureate Award in 2004. He was a loved and respected friend of the Foundation”.

Barry was generous in sharing his knowledge of film and issues relating to aspects of documentary-making and the involvement of Māori in the film industry with management and with audiences at several Forsyth Barr Laureates On-Stage events. He

Hone Tuwhare died in Dunedin on 16 January. Along with many other New Zealanders, the Arts Foundation of New Zealand mourned the loss of this renowned and much loved poet.

Hone was honoured with an inaugural Icon Award in 2003. At this time his citation reader Bill Manhire said “Hone’s voice communicated a distinctly Māori perspective marked by a lyrical response to the landscape. His work remained committed to Māori

~ Barry Barclay, photo by Robert Catto ~

~ Photo by Otago Daily Times ~

Art, Film, Music Now: New Generation Artists Talk About Their Work

ARTISTS

in a sense, builders as are artists - building from the bottom up, with ideas and materials. Freemasons have working tools - the ideals of freemasonry and actual things that they carry through their life. A kind of moral framework in the same way as artists do - they also have working tools and a kind of artistic moral framework that they adhere to”.

Two further such events are planned this year in Hamilton and New Plymouth. This will be the fi rst time the Arts Foundation has visited Taranaki.

To be eligible for the New Generation Awards the artist must be at an early stage of their career, and have demonstrated excellence and innovation through an output of artistic work at high levels. Artists are selected by a curator. The inaugural Awards were held in 2006 and fi ve further New Generation artists will be announced in Christchurch on 19 November 2008.

John Psathas says he is “truly excited to be working with Little Bushman, and Warren in particular. I made a fairly important decision early on to get to know Little Bushman as a live band, rather than as a studio band. Both of their commercial releases are brilliant, but they really articulate fully in a live setting. Warren is so versatile and expressive a musician that it’s a treat to think of placing him in more lush musical environments; which is what the orchestra and the band together allow.” Warren Maxwell is equally as enthusiastic: “I’m looking forward to hearing how John is intending to explode our songs and feed them out to the different sections of the orchestra.” Warren says “to be given the opportunity to work with such an internationally renowned composer/arranger like John Psathas…is both incredible and intimidating at the same time!”

Edith Amituanai And John Reynolds Shortlisted For Walters Prize

Congratulations to Laureates Gillian Karawe Whitehead who was awarded a D.C.N.Z.M (Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit) for services to music, and Derek Lardelli who was awarded an O.N.Z.M. (Offi cer of the New Zealand order of merit) for services to Maori arts, in particular ta moko. Also to Bill Brien (Bronze Patron) who was awarded an M.N.Z.M. (Member of the New Zealand order of merit) for services to sport and the community.

Gillian Whitehead, on board the Breakseagirl in Fiordland. Ten artists, including Marilyn Webb (Governor) and Gregory O’Brien (2008 New Generation Award Curator), visited Fiordland at the end of 2007. The trip was a fund-raiser for the Anna and John Caselberg Charitable Trust, toward costs of establishing a house for artists on the Otago Peninsula. There will be an exhibition and event based around this trip at the Otago Arts Festival in October 2008.Photo by Claire Beynon

Tribute To Two Great Artists

developed innovative approaches to filmmaking based on a deep respect for community values and was a strong advocate for Māori spiritual and cultural rights.

Fellow film-maker, friend and 2001 Laureate Gaylene Preston said “Barry Barclay was a true pioneer film-maker who established important networks for encouraging Māori film-making. He was a true visionary who made films about his community and their concerns, encouraging this community to make their own films”.

Barry Barclay

Hone Tuwhare

issues, though it also highlighted multicultural as well as working-class concerns, suggesting a world of shifting, multiple identities.”

“For Tuwhare words are musical notes of bells, of nose flutes. They are the rattle of milk bottles in crates, the hiss of tyres on a wet road, the stir of trees creaking in a storm.” Janet Hunt (Hone Tuwhare: A Biography)

had no room of my own and found myself making portraits of my daughter, Shiloh, outdoors. This related to my experience in France last year when I photographed my ex-pat New Zealand Samoan cousins and friends who have left home to pursue professional rugby contracts. I ventured onto the rugby fi eld rather than into the homes of my subjects to make portraits. What comes up in these

images for me is the way issues unfold in time, like the time it takes to build a home, and the way time spent in a place determines your relationship to it. I’m interested in the ways your home is an adaptation to the environment you live in, what gets left behind and what is carried on from the place you’ve come from.“

Moana Maniapoto (Laureate) and the tribe, recently launched Moana’s 4th CD WHA. The album includes a piece featuring fellow Laureate Alastair Galbraith. Moana

and Alastair met at the end of 2007 when they participated in Nelson and Queenstown Forsyth Barr Laureates On-Stage events. Rock critic Graham Reid says “across her previous three albums Moana Maniapoto confi rmed her status as one of New Zealand’s most signifi cant voices whose sound could just as comfortably incorporate politics and culture as seduce with her fl owing lyrics in te reo and her astute ear for using the traditional within a contemporary context…These days Moana and the Tribe are more often taking their music to an international audience (big in Russia, mate) but the soul and spirit which drives and determines the course of this music is always close to home and heart.”

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A SNAPSHOT

At the end of March, the fi rst of the Art Film, Music Now: New Generation Artists Talk About Their Work took place in Dunedin. The event was presented by Freemasons New Zealand.

Left to right – New Generation artist and musician Warren Maxwell tunes up. Joe Sheehan (checked shirt) fascinated the audience when he answered his own question “why do greenstone carvings made now, still look like things you might see in museums?” The event was chaired by Kate De Goldi (Laureate) here seen discussing the programme with Simon Bowden, (Executive Director) on their way to Dunedin.

The 2008 Award for Patronage, presented by Perpetual Trust, was held late May at Government House Wellington, jointly hosted by the Arts Foundation and their Excellencies the Governor General of New Zealand the Hon. Anand and Susan Satyanand.

Top left to right - Foalima and Tasi Lemalu (representing their son Jonathan Lemalu) with Ros Burdon (Chair) and Gillian and Roderick Deane; Representing Anna Leese, her mother, Caroline Leese; Karen Grylls (Artistic Director) and Alan Walmsley (Chairman) of New Zealand Youth Choir, join Sally Mathews (representing Delia Matthews).

Bottom left to right - Gillian and Roderick Deane with Louise Edwards, Chief Executive, Perpetual Trust (Centre); Gus and Irene Fisher (Patrons) with Brian Stevenson (Trustee); Helene Pohl performs with the New Zealand String Quartet

Award for Patronage photographs by Sara McIntyre

Left, the audience anticipates the announcement of the inaugural recipient of the Marti Friedlander Photographic Award, Edith Amituanai. While right, Marti and Gerrard Friedlander offer their congratulations to Edith. Photos by Savs Photography

Joining The Team

The Arts Foundation is delighted that Sue Wood has agreed to join the team as a Trustee. Sue is managing director of Sue Wood & Associates, a Wellington-based public relations company she founded 17 years ago. Sue has a background in journalism, teaching and national politics. She was elected President of the National Party in 1982, the first woman president of a major political party in New Zealand, serving in the role for four years. Sue has been active in democracy-building programmes over many years, serving as President of the International Institute for Women’s Political Leadership in Washington DC and as a member of international observer delegations to elections in the Philippines, Chile, Pakistan, Romania, South Africa, Hong Kong and Madagascar. Most recently she completed a pre election assessment mission in Pakistan before the parliamentary elections. She has extensive experience working on a wide range of projects in the private, public and Māori sectors, and has served on a number of boards and trusts, including Museum of New Zealand – Te Papa Tongarewa, Downstage Theatre Trust, The Dame Malvina Foundation and Arts Access Aotearoa. She currently serves on the Priory Trust Board of St John.

Jonathan Mane-Wheoki, Arts Foundation Governor and Director of Art and Collection Services at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Canterbury in April. He is an academic art historian, who has specialised in 19th and early 20th century European art and architecture; British colonial and imperial architecture; modern and contemporary New Zealand painting; and the contemporary Mäori art movement. He has served on numerous national and international bodies including Te Waka Toi (the Māori Arts Board) and the Arts Council of Creative New Zealand; the International Council of the Centre Culturel Jean-Marie Tjibaou in Nouméa; and the Marsden Fund Council. Jonathan is Deputy Chair of the Council for the Humanities and a member of the Council of the Royal Society. He is an important member of the Arts Foundation family, having served on award selection panels and contributed regularly to the Arts Foundation’s business.

The Arts Foundation has had to say farewell to Trustee Karyn Fenton-Ellis. Karyn was hugely knowledgeable about sponsorship issues, but other commitments did not allow her the time required to devote to the Arts Foundation. Thank you Karyn for your contribution.

Deirdre Tarrant is welcomed to the Arts Foundation College of Governors. Deirdre is Company Director and founder of Footnote Dance, a national contemporary dance company. Deidre’s ballet background was with Jeane Horne and the New Zealand Ballet Company. An overseas study grant took her to dance in London and Europe and to discover contemporary dance in New York. She is a Vocational examiner for the Royal Academy of Dance and has her own studio in Wellington. The Deirdre Tarrant Dance Theatre is a youth dance company with a commitment to integrating dance in the Wellington community. She is currently Dance Advisor for the Wellington College of Education, on the Dance Advisory of NZQA, the Board of Studies for the New Zealand School of Dance and the Whitireia Performing Arts and DANZ Boards. Deirdre was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the New Year 2000 Honours.

~ Sue Wood ~

~ Jonathan Mane-Wheoki receives his honorary doctorate from Chancellor Dr Robin Mann, University of Canterbury. Photo by Duncan Shaw-Brown ~

~ Deirdre Tarrant ~

Honorary Doctorate

Thanks to

Jaenine Parkinson joined the management team at the end of 2007. Jaenine is acting Administrator/Events in the absence of Bryna O’Brien who is on maternity leave, having given birth to James in January. Jaenine graduated with a Masters in Arts History from Auckland University in 2005. She lectured at the University before working with an architecture fi rm, also curating exhibitions around New Zealand. Before Jaenine commenced working for the Arts Foundation, she had begun research on an exhibition of art and music. The exhibition included Arts Foundation Laureates Peter Peryer, John Pule, John Reynolds and Gillian Whitehead and Jack Body. The exhibition, titled The Stations of the Cross, was held in March at the Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland.

Thanks also to Rita Langley who helped at the Arts Foundation part-time while working toward her Masters in Art History at Victoria University. Rita became the current Senior Women’s Oceania Downhill Mountain Bike Champion in March while at the Foundation. Digtal Art is the subject of both Jaenine’s and Rita’s thesis work.

~ Jaenine Parkinson, Photo by Sara McIntyre ~

From The Offi ce

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DYNAMICS OF PRIVATE SUPPORT

The Arts Foundation is delighted to confi rm that its award winning partnership with one of the best known, most trusted and highly respected names in the New Zealand fi nancial services industry, Forsyth Barr, is to continue for another term.

This partnership, recognised as one of the most successful in New Zealand, fi rst commenced with a Principal Sponsorship in 2002. Throughout the six years, Forsyth Barr has continually invested in and supported the Arts Foundations activities and growth.

The join development of Forsyth Barr Laureates On-Stage has seen Forsyth Barr and the Arts Foundation host thousands of New Zealanders around the country. These unique events have provided an opportunity for our artists’ stories to be heard and the richness of their work shared for the benefi t of us all.

Neil Paviour-Smith, Managing Director of Forsyth Barr said the decision to enter into a third term with the Arts Foundation was an easy one. “A proudly New Zealand fi rm, Forsyth Barr has always sought to provide meaningful support back into the communities in which we operate and into wider New Zealand. The Arts Foundation has enabled us to celebrate and honour some of New Zealand’s fi nest artists providing an opportunity for them to take their work to new heights, both at home and on the world stage.”

Ros Burdon welcomes Forsyth Barr’s continued support. “Forsyth Barr has enabled the Foundation signifi cant growth. Their presence demonstrates the Foundation has committed partners that believe in its goals and support them; this sends an important message of validation to all guests.”

“Our artists and supporters too, warmly welcome the continued support of Forsyth Barr.” Their long term committed presence, beyond merely fi nancial support has resulted in real and genuine relationships, Ros said.

And in consistent form, the partnership renewal commences with another series of the very popular Forsyth Barr Laureates On-Stage.

The Art Of Investment

The Arts Foundation was established as a place where the private sector can channel its support for the arts. In line with the vision of the Founding Trustees, this support is achieved in two ways. First, through projects established by the Arts Foundation such as the New Generation, Icon and Laureate Awards and secondly, through projects established in partnership with specifi c Patrons to achieve an expected vision. Examples of third party partnerships are the Marti Friedlander Photographic Award and the Harriet Friedlander Scholarship.

As a private organisation the Foundation has a fl exibility to set its own goals and markers of success. This has enabled it to establish a non-application selection process. This selection method has become a defi ning characteristic of the Foundation and welcomed by arts communities, as it encourages artists to focus on their practise. The Foundation’s guiding principles require that all artists selected demonstrate the highest standards of artistic expression. However, the responsibility for how this is currently interpreted is delegated to a changing group of experts, who bring with them a consistently updating measure of excellence drawn from their experience in the fi eld. This enables the Foundation to strategically target some of New Zealand’s most promising

artists with a boost and honour to project them to new heights.

The Foundation maintains its role as an institution that celebrates and honours Award recipients, as a growing family of artists, through its publications and media relations. This has provided a dynamic element to private support for the arts that was not as easily achieved through individual giving. Artists who receive awards or support from the Foundation attract national attention and through standing alongside other recipients, share the mana of the family. The Foundation also welcomes patrons to share with other honoured members of the arts community through the Award for Patronage, as establishers of new programs of patronage and as fi nancial supporters. The Awards’ ceremonies and touring productions provide a place where patrons and artists come to enjoy the arts together.

The doors are wide open at the Foundation; anyone who has an interest is welcome to become involved. The criteria for establishing third party projects is available upon request and options for joining are published on our website at

www.artsfoundation.org.nz

A Direct Path To The Arts

In the second half of this year the Foundation concludes a three-year sponsorship with Lion Nathan. One of the most generous pro bono sponsorships in the arts, Lion has provided thousands of bottles of champagne, wine, beer and ginger beer, at no charge, for all Arts Foundation’s events during its term as a sponsor. From time to time, Lion has also surprised Award recipients by sending congratulatory gifts of product.

“Lion’s sponsorship has been critical in enabling us to host guests at events throughout New Zealand. Their products are all of a high standard and have been enjoyed by all of the Foundation’s family,” said Simon Bowden, Foundation

Executive Director. “They have taken a keen interest in the Foundation’s development and should be proud of the support they have given”.

In addition to wishing to make a real contribution to the arts, Lion took the sponsorship with the Foundation to increase awareness that it is a mutli-beverage supplier. Lion is now refocusing its sponsorships into programmes that build self-esteem for youth. Lion has offered to assist the Foundation establish partnerships with alternative suppliers to ensure products are available for future events. In addition, the Foundation is in advanced stages of discussion with a new beverage partner.

Three Years With The Lion

The Arts Foundation is pleased to welcome Perpetual Trust to its family of sponsors. As a company with over 120 years experience in managing charitable trusts, Perpetual are an excellent Presenting Sponsor of the Arts Foundation of New Zealand Award for Patronage.

Perpetual Trust Limited was established in Dunedin in 1884 under its own Act of Parliament and now has seven offi ces nationally. Among Perpetual’s services is specialist knowledge on fi nancial planning, investments, wills, powers of attorney, legacies and the establishment of trusts, including charitable trusts. Perpetual manages a number of trusts that provide signifi cant benefi ts to the community and is the only completely New Zealand owned authorised trustee company.

Perceptual Trust - Celebrating Philanthropy

“I am delighted to welcome Perpetual to the team”, said Ros Burdon Arts Foundation Chairman. “Perpetual’s commitment to the charitable sector makes them a perfect partner for the Arts Foundation and their sponsorship increases the honour of the Award for Patronage”.

“Perpetual Trust is proud to be associated with the Arts Foundation and to be celebrating philanthropy”, said Louise Edwards, Chief Executive Offi cer. “The Foundation is unique in that it honours both highest achievers in the arts and also those that are part of the arts community as supporters. The value placed in both parties refl ects Perpetual’s commitment to helping people achieve their philanthropic aims whilst providing real benefi ts to the community”.

Working with the Arts Foundation is a real treat for us. The partnership offers us opportunities to do what we love doing: crossing boundaries. Mixing traditional forms of Art with the latest creative tools allows us to push the limits of branding and technology – the very things we’re passionate about. Chrometoaster is at the forefront of the online revolution and not so surprisingly, the Arts Foundation has been a perfect partner with which to explore this new realm. I look forward to many more years of involvement and the unique challenges ahead.

Dave Turnbull, Creative Director

Chrometoaster - Crossing Boundaries

This year is Chrometoaster’s third year of a successful partnership with the Arts Foundation.

Established in 1998, Chrometoaster’s services include interface design, interactive presentations, website development, Flash animation and motion graphics as well as traditional design services, such as brand identity and logo development. We seek to design extraordinary user experiences, leveraging current and emerging technology to drive business success for our clients. With the Arts Foundation it’s working on creative solutions for all their design needs.

We have created a wide array of work, from branding elements to event and marketing material. This includes 5 issues of Applause, 13 invitations, 9 Award booklets and over 10 profi le, or one-off booklets. We have also produced 5 audio visual award presentations that include 25 video items featuring artists honoured by the Foundation and a DVD profi ling artists awarded up until 2005.

The team at Chrometoaster is passionate about the arts and the Arts Foundation. We have a keen interest in the fi nal outcome of all published materials and work closely with Arts Foundation staff and print sponsors DSP Print to see that initial concepts are fi nalised to the highest standards. Marketing material is prepared at the Arts Foundation offi ces by Angela Busby. Copy is proofed and edited on a gratis basis by Pip Ballard before being included into a brief for the designers. Andrea Babel from Chrometoaster is instrumental in scheduling design work and staff work allocation through to delivery to DSP Print. We also update the website and labour over audio-visual presentations and DVDs. In short, we love it!

I have fond memories of one late night at Chrometoaster. Ben was focused on rendering video for the Laureate Awards and Dave and I were contemplating the video item that features Tze Ming Mok for the New Generation Awards. That night we struck upon the idea of intersecting Tze Ming’s blog about fi reworks bangs with a lit fuse - a fun idea in a moment of inspiration that resulted in some of Chrometoaster’s best work. The creative fl air they bring to the Foundation is integral to our ability to honour artists in a dynamic way that is accessible and interesting to a wide audience.

Simon Bowden, Executive Director

For more than 70 years Constance has contributed a prodigious amount of energy, devotion, care and input into New Zealand’s cultural landscape. There are very few like her, for her activities span such a cross section of our culture – music, theatre, opera and the visual arts. Her contribution has always been both signifi cant in its timing, and enduring in its consequences in each discipline in which she has been involved.

For example, there was the Alex Lindsay String Orchestra back in the late 1950s – Constance was the glue that held it together and ensured that it kept operating. At the beginning of the New Zealand Opera Company she was there, a veritable linchpin in its activities, organising, raising funds, promoting the Company’s profi le. So, too, it was with the New Zealand Players, the fi rst professional theatre company in the early 50s. In the mid 1960s she was persuaded to accept the position of Director of the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts. Her skills, energy and breadth of vision transformed the organisation from a staid and conservative body which mounted three exhibitions a year to a vibrant organization, with a rapidly expanding and enthusiastic membership who relished a variety of exhibitions throughout the year. And so the list goes on.

Downstage Theatre celebrated Constance’s 90th birthday and expressed its appreciation of all that she has contributed. The event started with a cabaret entertainment put on by a vintage line-up of well known actors. It began with Constance being escorted into the theatre by Ellie Smith, who was singing from a musical – ‘Hello Constance, it’s so nice to see you here, it’s where you belong’- a sentiment that resonates with so many of us, since it refl ects her engaging and generous personality and, most important of all, proclaims her a true Patron of the Arts.

The Arts Foundation is grateful to David for initiating and offering to fund an oral history of Constance’s story. The Foundation will administer the project.

An Arts Treasure

~ Constance Kirkcaldie - Photo by Sara McIntyre ~

On the evening of the Award for Patronage, Ros Burdon, Arts Foundation Chair, made special mention of Constance Scott Kirkcaldie. In this issue, David Carson-Parker, Arts Foundation Governor and great friend to Constance, expresses his thanks to the great work she has undertaken in supporting the arts both nationally and particularly in Wellington. Constance is an Arts Foundation Silver Patron. She is a great advocate of the Arts Foundation, attending events around the country and helping management with historical advice on Icon artists, many of whom are close friends.

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THE ARTS FOUNDATION IS:

Many individuals and organisations contribute to the Foundation’s vision through participation at a number of levels. The role of all members of the Arts Foundation’s family is gratefully acknowledged.

Founding Patrons

Roderick & Gillian DeaneEion & Jan EdgarJenny GibbsFran & Geoff RickettsJohn ToddJames H. Wallace

Platinum Lifetime Patrons

Nancy & Spencer Radford

Platinum Patron

Peter TathamAnonymous (1)

Gold Lifetime Patrons

Ros & Philip BurdonJohn & Jo GowLady IsaacPeter & Joanna MasfenFay PankhurstDeborah Sellar

Gold Corporate Patron

National Business Review

Gold Patrons

Gus & Irene FisherKathlene Fogarty & Dr Gary ReynoldsNoel & Sue RobinsonLady TaitSir Miles WarrenDavid WiltonAnonymous (1)

Gold Laureate Donors

Donald & Susan BestJohn & Rose DunnJohn & Merrill HoldsworthDon & Jannie HunnPrue & Denver OldeLesley & Michael ShanahanJenny & Andrew Smith

Silver Patrons

Trish ClarkWayne Boyd & Ann ClarkeAlfons & Susie des TombeDiana & Bob FenwickLaurie GreigSir Michael & Lady Hardie BoysMargot HutchisonJillian & Dick JardineRoger King & Liffy RobertsConstance KirkcaldieChris & Dayle MaceAndrew Robertson & Niina SuhonenRonald Sang & Margaret ParkerRon & Margaret SaundersMary SmitPamela & Brian StevensonCaroline & Henry van AschWalker & Hall TrustHaydn Wong

Silver Laureate Donors

Richard & Trish BarnesJohn & Mary MarshallDot PaykelJolyon & Georgina Ralston

Marjorie RobsonFaith TaylorColin Post & Brenda Young

Bronze Patrons

Charlotte AndersonMichael & Gaye AndrewsArts WaikatoGraham AtkinsonJohn BarnettAlexandra & Charlie BartonLiz Bowen-Clewley & Greg ClewleyBill Brien & Frances RussellChris & Lyn BrocketBill & Meg BusbyJulie & Robert BrydenBruce & Margaret Carson Brecon & Jessica CarterSuzanne CarterAndrew & Niki CathieRichard & Frances CathieKim Chamberlain & Henrietta HallHelen ChambersRick & Lorraine ChristieBruce & Jo ConnorDinah & Robert DobsonRocky & Jeanie DoucheRobyn & Christopher EvansKaryn Fenton-EllisHelen & Keith FergusonCharlotte & Robert FisherMarc & Cecilia Fitz-GeraldRie FletcherE. M. FriedlanderJohn & Marelda GallaherJim GeddesSue Gifford & Simon SkinnerJohn & Trish GribbenHelen & Don HaganPhilip & Leone HarknessAlister HarlowGay Hervey & Bob SchmukeJohn & Barbara HeslopWilli HillKen & Jennifer HornerJoan ImrieChris & Sue InesonHugo Judd & Sue MorganThe Kauri TrustPeter KeenanGrant KerrMichael & Monica LaneyHilary LangerAnnie K. H. LeeAngela LewisRobert & Jenny LoosleyKen Lister & Barbara BridgerEugenie LoomansMary LynskeySue & John MaaslandJanice MacleodEileen McGrath-HadwenShirley, Lady McKenzieJoy MebusPauline MitchellBarbara & Roger MosesDouglas MyersRobert & Freda Narev Caroline & Gerald McGhieMike NicolaidiRob & Jacqui Nicoll Mervyn & Francoise NorrishTrish & Roger Oakley

Simon & Nell PascoeJustice Barry & Mrs Alison PatersonNeil & Phillipa Paviour-SmithSam PerryJoe & Jackie PopeJames & Rachel PorteousMichael PrenticeChris & Sue ProwseProfessor Hilary RadnerDon & Moira RennieNicky Riddiford & John PrebbleLyn & Bruce RobertsonRita SalmonGreg & Rosie SchneidermanSir Ronald & Lady ScottLindsay SheltonMax & Laraine ShepherdJan SparyJohn & Robyn SpoonerRoger Steele & Christine RobertsRoss SteeleKathleen Tipler & Michael ColeTurnovsky Endowment TrustGerrit & Marianne van der LingenPhilip van DykKerrin & Noel VautierThe Waimarama TrustFredricka E. M. Walker-MurrayJames L. D. & Eve WallaceMargaret WheelerHelen & Geoff WhitcherMichèle Whitecliffe & Adrian FarnsworthGillian WhiteheadEdna WilliamsLes & Marie WilliamsGeoff Winstone & Jenny MacdonaldRichard & Joanna WoodsJohn & Rosemary WorleyHelen YoungAnonymous (11)

Bronze Laureate Donors

Margaret & Warren AustadBrian & Silvia BennettDorothy GentryAnn MallinsonTerence and Elizabeth O’BrienAntonia ShanahanFoss & Pip ShanahanHugo & Kate ShanahanJudy & Roscoe TurnerLindsay & Kees WeststrateKirsty Wood & family

Notifi ed Legacies

Alistair BettsJamie BullDavid Carson-ParkerAnne ConeyJohn DowJenny GibbsLorraine IsaacsHelen LloydPamela & Brian StevensonJohn ToddAnonymous (7)

Vice-Regal Patron

His Excellency The Hon Anand Satyanand, PCNZM, QSO, Governor-General of New Zealand

Trustees

Ros Burdon CNZM (Chair), Richard Cathie MNZM, Leigh Davis, Eion Edgar DCNZM, CNZM, Elizabeth Ellis CNZM, Fran Ricketts, Sir Ronald Scott, Brian Stevenson , Sir Miles Warren ONZ, KBE, and Sue Wood

Honorary Vice Patrons

Sir Michael & Lady Hardie Boys

Governors

John McCormack (Chair), David Carson-Parker, Dr Robin Congreve, Briar Grace-Smith, Roger Hall QSO, CNZM, Elizabeth Knox ONZM, Jonathan Mane-Wheoki, Helen Medlyn, Justin Paton, Gaylene Preston ONZM, Deirdre Tarrant MNZM, Hon Georgina te Heuheu QSO, Marilynn Webb ONZM, Gillian Whitehead MNZM, Lloyd Williams & Rodney Wilson CNZM.

Staff

Executive DirectorSimon Bowden

Project Co-ordinatorAngela Busby

AdministratorJaenine Parkinson

Icon Artists

Raymond Boyce (THEATRE DESIGN)

Len Castle (POTTER)

Janet Frame (WRITER)

Maurice Gee (WRITER)

Peter Godfrey (MUSICIAN)

Patricia Grace (WRITER)

Alexander Grant (BALLET DANCER)

Dr Pakariki Harrison (CARVER)

Ralph Hotere (VISUAL ARTIST)

Russell Kerr (CHOREOGRAPHER)

Donald McIntyre (OPERA SINGER)

Margaret Mahy (WRITER)

Milan Mrkusich (VISUAL ARTIST)

Donald Munro (OPERA PIONEER)

Don Peebles (PAINTER)

Don Selwyn (ACTOR, STAGE & SCREEN)

Diggeress Te Kanawa (WEAVER)

Hone Tuwhare (POET)

Sir Miles Warren (ARCHITECT)

Ans Westra (PHOTOGRAPHER)

Arnold Manaaki Wilson (SCULPTOR)

Laureate Artists

Barry Barclay (FILM DIRECTOR/WRITER)

Jack Body (COMPOSER)

Alun Bollinger (CINEMATOGRAPHER)

Jenny Bornholdt (POET)

Phil Dadson (INTERMEDIA ARTIST)

Neil Dawson (SCULPTOR)

Kate De Goldi (WRITER)

Warwick Freeman (JEWELLER)

Alastair Galbraith (SOUND MUSICIAN)

Briar Grace-Smith (WRITER)

Michael Houstoun (CONCERT PIANIST)

Sarah-Jayne Howard (DANCER)

Michael Hurst (ACTOR/DIRECTOR)

Neil Ieremia (DIRECTOR/CHOREOGRAPHER)

Humphrey Ikin (FURNITURE MAKER)

Oscar Kightley (WRITER/ACTOR/DIRECTOR)

Elizabeth Knox (WRITER)

Derek Lardelli (TA MOKO/KAPA HAKA)

Colin McColl (THEATRE DIRECTOR)

Shona McCullagh (CHOREOGRAPHER/DANCE FILMMAKER)

Don McGlashan (MUSICIAN)

Bill Manhire (POET)

Moana Maniapoto (MUSICIAN)

Helen Medlyn (SINGER)

Julia Morison (VISUAL ARTIST)

Simon O’Neill (OPERA SINGER)

Michael Parekowhai (VISUAL ARTIST)

Peter Peryer (PHOTOGRAPHER)

Gaylene Preston (FILMMAKER)

John Psathas (COMPOSER)

John Pule (VISUAL ARTIST/POET)

Jacob Rajan (PLAYWRIGHT/ACTOR)

John Reynolds (VISUAL ARTIST)

Ann Robinson (GLASS SCULPTOR)

Ronnie van Hout (VISUAL ARTIST)

Ian Wedde (POET/WRITER)

Gillian Whitehead (COMPOSER)

Merilyn Wiseman (CERAMIC ARTIST)

Douglas Wright (CHOREOGRAPHER)

New Generation Artists

Eve Armstrong (VISUAL ARTIST)

Warren Maxwell (MUSICIAN)

Tze Ming Mok (WRITER)

Joe Sheehan (STONE ARTIST & JEWELLER)

Taika Waititi (FILMMAKER, THEATRE)

Award for Patronage

Denis and Verna AdamJenny GibbsGillian and Roderick Deane

Award for Patronage Donation Recipients

2006 - Jointly - Dave Armstrong & Oscar Kightley (Playwrights), John Chen (Pianist), Posthumously - John Drawbridge (Visual Artist), Tom Scott (cartoonist & political journalist)

2007 - Gretchen Albrecht (Visual Artist), Artspace, Auckland, Auckland Writers and Readers, The New Zealand Opera School

2008 - Jonathan Lemalu, Anna Leese, Delia Matthews, The TOWER New Zealand Youth Choir

Governors’ Award

University Of OtagoRadio New Zealand Concert

The Marti Friedlander Photographic Award

Edith Amituanai

The Harriet Friedlander Residency

Florian Habicht

Arts Foundation of New ZealandPO Box 11-352, Manners Street, Wellington 6124

Tel: 04 382 9691Fax: 04 382 9692

Email: admin@artsfoundation.org.nz Website: www.artsfoundation.org.nz

Award Recipients

Principal SponsorA New Zealand owned company, Forsyth Barr is proud to partner the Arts Foundation to achieve its bold and inspiring vision. A vision that includes empowering New Zealand artists to achieve their full potential so that as a nation we can celebrate our highest achievers at home and on the world stage.

Presenting Sponsor – Laureate AwardsForsyth Barr enables the annual investment in artistic excellence through the celebration and honouring of fi ve distinguished, high achieving New Zealand artists.

Naming Sponsor – Forsyth Barr Laureates On-StageInitiated in partnership by the Arts Foundation and Forsyth Barr, these events provide a unique opportunity for guests throughout New Zealand to experience the lives and works of Arts Foundation Laureates.

Presenting Sponsor – New Generation Awards and Art, Film, Music Now; New Generation Artists Talk About Their WorkAs funder of both the Awards and event, Freemasons New Zealand is providing signifi cant support to artists in the early stages of their careers.

Presenting Sponsor – Award for PatronagePerpetual Trust enable a signifi cant Patron to be honoured for their contributions to the arts in New Zealand.

Supporting providersThe following companies provide generous support through the provision of high quality services.

Printing of all marketing and stationery

IT services, including maintenance and equipment

purchase

Print, web and moving image designers

Photocopier andprint supplier

Strategic ICT and management systems

support

Beer, wine and soft drink supplies for all events

Public relations advice

Trust supportPhilanthropic trusts provide valuable donations to support infrastructure and events.

Thanks also to Central Lakes Trust, Community Trust of Otago, Eastern and Central Community Trust, Eureka Trust, Lysaght-Watt Trust and the Perry Foundation.

Back Cover: Humphrey Ikin (Laureate), detail - Red Stave Chair. Photo by Roy Emerson

...AND GROWING

You approach the worldwith open arms and hopeit wants you. Hope to be

asked in to sit amongst thefi ne furniture…

Jenny Bornholdt (Laureate), extract from ‘The Visit’ (1991), Waiting Shelter, Victoria University Press: Wellington

NOVEMBER 2008 | LAUREATE AWARDS, WELLINGTON | NEW GENERATION AWARDS, CHRISTCHURCH