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19
Alasdair Clayre, Work and Play; Ideas and Experience of Work and Leisure, London, 1974, pp.8 &
51-3.
20 Ivan D. Illich, The Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies, London, 1978, p.84.
21
The text of the paper was published in the Ceramic Review the following year. See Harry Davis, 'An
Assessment of the Craft Movement', Ceramic Review, January February, 67 January / February,
1981, p.33.
22 Harry Davis, The Potter’s Alternative, North Ryde, NSW, 1987.
23
Hamish Keith flatted with Brickell in the late 1950s. He claimed that Brickell was more interested in
fire and its effects on clay than pottery per se. See Hamish Keith, interview with Moyra Elliott and
Damian Skinner, Museum of New Zealand/Te Papa Tongarewa Visual Culture in Aotearoa,
Wellington, CA000801.
24
Between 1958 and the late 1980s Barry Brickell was the subject of six major articles and the author
of twenty in the magazine.
25
Barry Brickell, 'New Wine into Old Bottles', New Zealand Potter, 1, 1 August, 1958
p.3.
26
ibid.
27
Barry Brickell, 'Function and Form - Futility and Fertility', New Zealand Potter, 7 February, 1965,
p.22.
28 Bernard Leach, A Potter’s Book, London, 1940, pp.26-7.
29
ibid., p.27.
30 ibid., pp.257-8.
31
Royce McGlashen, email to the author, 6 June 2007.
32 Inkson, 'The Craft Ideal and the Integration of Work: A Study of Potters', p.170.
33
C. Wright Mills quoted in ibid.

11. Taking Care of Business

1
June Reay, 16 December 2006, OH 133, interview with Vic Evans, Nelson Pottery Club Members,
Oral History, Nelson Provincial Museum.
2
Ibid.The potter/ceramic artist, Peter Lange, expressed a similar amazement. Jeanette Cook, Crafted
by Design: Inside New Zealand Craft Artist’s Studios, Auckland, 2005, p.85.
3
Peter and Dianne Beatson, in their survey of the arts in New Zealand, defined the term ‘economy’ in
the following way: ‘We are using the term “economy” broadly to refer to the zone of society where
labour is carried out, nature is transformed into objects for human use, goods or services are
exchanged and money circulates.’ Peter Beatson and Dianne Beatson, The Arts in Aotearoa New
Zealand. Themes and Issues, Palmerston North, 1994, p.246.
4
Economists generally recognise the 1970s as a point of change. For instance Tim Hazledine uses
the dates 1956 – 76 and 1977 – 96, labelling the former as the ‘years of external shocks’ and the
latter, ‘years of internal shocks. See Tim Hazledine, Taking New Zealand Seriously: The Economics of
Decency, Auckland, 1998, p.32. Geoff Bertram discusses three eras, locating the periods that this
book is concerned with first from the mid-1930s to the 1970s ‒ ‘insulation and industrialisation’, and
the final period, between the 1980s and 2000 ‒ as ‘the swing to services and the arrival of neo-
liberalism. See Geoff Bertram, The New Zealand Economy, 1900 – 2000’, in Giselle Byrnes, ed., The
New Oxford History of New Zealand, South Melbourne, Vic., 2009, pp.540-1.
5
The economist, P. G. Elkan, estimated that ‘effective protection’ was over 50% in the 1950s and 70 –
75% by the mid-1960s. See 'Industrial Protection in New Zealand 1952 to 1967', 1972, p.80.
6
Sutch was a collector of Asian and English ceramics and a supporter of the studio craft movement.
See Moyra Elliott and Damian Skinner, Cone Ten Down: Studio Pottery in New Zealand, 1945 - 1980,
Auckland, 2009, p.93.
7 Brian Easton, William Ball Sutch 2007; available at: http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/dnzb/ (8 August 2008)
8
Bob Heatherbell, 5 November 1984, OH 16, interview with Karen Patterson, Nelson Ceramics, Oral
History, Nelson Provincial Museum. By ‘industry’ Heatherbell is referring to the studio pottery
‘industry’.
9 Hazledine, p.53.
10
The most notable patron for pottery was Fletcher Challenge Ltd. (formed through the merger of
Fletcher Industries Ltd. and Challenge Corporation Ltd. in 1981). See The Fletcher Trust Collection,
2008; available at: http://www.fletchercollection.co.nz/ceramics.php (27 June 2008)
11
Brian Easton, In Stormy Seas: The Post-War New Zealand Economy, Dunedin, 1997, p.2.

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