Mission Statement Craft in New Zealand Contact Details
	Board Members MICHAEL SMYTHE (Co Chairperson) is a partner in CREATIONZ Consultants with Helen Schamroth, a practitioner in textile based craft art and author of 100 New Zealand Craft Artists. Michael offers consultancy services in industrial design, branding and design management. He is completing a Master of Design Management and teaching design history part-time at Unitec. MARIANNE HARGREAVES (Co Chairperson) is a textile artist, living in Christchurch. She has a studio in the Arts Centre, and tutors nationally and internationally in contemporary stitched textiles. Marianne also works as Arts Advisor for The Arts Centre of Christchurch. PHILLIP LUXTON (Secretary) was born 1959 and began working with pottery in his early 20s. Phillip's focus is mainly on large works, predominantly for gardens. He regards everything he makes as sculpture in that the primary concern is form. EDITH RYAN has been involved with the crafts community for many years, prominently through her work with the QEII crafts grants, as a gallery owner and lately as the chair of the "A Treasury of the NZ Craft Resources Trust". MATT MCLEAN, originally from Hawkes Bay, attended Art School in Auckland in the early '70s. He worked in several disciplines, but has concentrated on ceramics since graduating. Although best known for his outdoor sculpture, Matt made occasional forays into domestic ware and teaching. He exhibits mostly around Auckland and is active in the local Potters' Society. MANOS NATHAN has been involved with the development of the Maori Ceramic movement since the 1980s. His works draw on a rich heritage of customary art forms and are informed by the allegory and metaphor of Maori cosmological and creation narratives, tribal folklore and oral traditions. RON SANG is an architect and collector of New Zealand art. Born in Fiji, he moved to New Zealand to study architecture at the University of Auckland. He founded his own practice with Mark-Brown and Fairhead in 1969, dissolving the partnership on 1990 to work as a sole practitioner. He was made a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Architects in 1984 and in 2001 won the inaugural NZIA Enduring Architecture Award for the Brake house Ron maintains a keen interest in architecture, NZ art and modern classic furniture. His house in Epsom, Auckland is designed around his extensive collection. In 2000 he was made an officer of the NZ Order of Merit for services to architecture and art. CARIN WILSON is an established artist who has been designing and making furniture and sculpture at Studio Pasifika in Auckland for over 20 years. A regular exhibitor, his work has been recognized with several grants and awards and is held in public and private collections in several countries. Patrons of the Trust: Doreen Blumhardt, ceramic artist Len Castle, ceramic artist