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9
Ian Hall, ‘Polytechnic Education in the 1990s’, in Education in the 1990s: A Series of Public Lectures,
Dunedin, 1988, pp.19 - 20.
10
Ian Dougherty, Bricklayers and Mortarboards: A History of New Zealand Polytechnics and Institutes
of Technology, Palmerston North, 1999, p.49. This comment is not entirely accurate as individual
polytechnics continued to award ‘local’ qualifications for many years after this period. Phil Sharpin,
email to the author, 8 April 2010.
11
Ray Thorburn in Ray Thorburn and Carin Wilson, 'Craft Design Courses: The Lead-Up', New
Zealand Crafts, 23 Autumn, 1988, p.3.
12 Quoted in ibid.
13
ibid.
14 ibid., p.4.
15
‘Cultural integrity’ may be a reference to Māori arts and crafts.
16 Thorburn and Wilson.
17
Carin Wilson in ibid.
18 ibid., pp.5 - 6.
19
John A. Codd, et al., 'National Evaluation of Craft Education: Final Report', Palmerston North,
1989.
20
ibid.
21 Doreen Blumhardt, 'Letter to the Editor. Craft Education', New Zealand Crafts, 24 Winter, 1988, p.2.
22
A. Craftsperson, 'Letter to the Editor. A Craftsperson Speaks', New Zealand Crafts, 24 Winter, 1988,
p.2.
23
Neil Scotts and Peter Mounsey, Craft New Zealand. A Study of the Craft Industry, Craftspeople and
Their Training Needs, Wellington, 1983, p.9.
24
ibid.
25 Roger Brittain, 'Soapbox', New Zealand Crafts, May, 1982.
26
ibid.
27 Liz Sawkins, 'Full-Time Weavers in New Zealand: A Survey', 1984, p.61.
28
David Carr, 'Survey of Artists, Potters and Writers', 1980. Over 75% of the respondents who earned
more than 50% of their income from pottery earned 90% or more of their total gross income in the
1977 ‒ 78 year from pottery production.
29
Commission sales were vigorously opposed by some craftspeople. See James Bowman, 'Soapbox',
New Zealand Crafts, 18 Spring, 1986, p.2.
30
Edith Ryan, 'Soapbox', New Zealand Craft, 15 Summer, 1985, p.2.
31
ibid.
32
ibid.
33
John Reid, 'A New Crafts Council Gallery', New Zealand Crafts, 20 Autumn, 1987, p.6.
34
ibid.
35
Codd, et al., p.157.
36
Individual craftspeople and craft organisations applied to the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council for
grants along with painters, actors, dancers etc. Edith Ryan, 'Arts Council Back-Up', New Zealand
Crafts, 23 Autumn, 1988.
37
Jenny Pattrick, 'Bachelor of Ceramics - and Broke', New Zealand Crafts, 7 Sept/Oct, 1983, p.4.
38
ibid.
39
ibid., p.6.
40
ibid.
41
ibid.
42
Shona Carstens, 'Letter to the Editor', New Zealand Crafts, 8 Dec - Jan 1983 - 84, p.3.
43
Edith Ryan, 'Editorial', Craft New Zealand, 36 Winter, 1991, p.2.
44
ibid.
45
Carin Wilson, 'Craft Education', New Zealand Craft, 11 Spring, 1984, p.31.
46
Michael Smythe, 'Education: The Graduates', Craft New Zealand, 39 Autumn, 1992, p.23. Smythe
received a Diploma of Industrial Design at the Wellington Polytechnic School of Design in the mid-
1960s.
47
Peter Gibbs, 'Two Nelson Shows', Craft New Zealand, 39 Autumn, 1992, p.26.
48
ibid.
49
Douglas Lloyd-Jenkins, 'We're Younger Than You, Please Listen', Craft New Zealand, 46 Summer,
1993, p.3.
50
ibid.
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