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11
Colin Slade to the Public Relations Committee of the CCNZ, Proposal for the Establishment of
Regional Branches within the Crafts Council of New Zealand, February 1986, CCNZ Records, 92-278,
08/05.
12
Barry Brickell, 'Craft Index', New Zealand Crafts, Spring 1987, p.2.
13 Jack Laird, 20 May 1987, CCNZ Records, 92-278, 01/09.
14
Submission on Sales Tax’, 1979, CCNZ Records, ABRL 7514W5068, Box 20 4/3/8, 1976 – 1981.
The protests of craftspeople resulted in the establishment of the Interdepartmental Committee on
Sales Tax but had little impact on the decisions that the committee made.
15 Margaret Symes to Jenny Pattrick, received 28 November 1979, CCNZ Records, 92-278, Box 30.
16
Bevin Fitzsimons, Crafts as a Livelihood: Information for Craftspeople and Others Working
Independently, Co-Operatively or in Other Small-Scale Enterprises, Wellington, 1980.
17
'Factory and Commercial Premises Bill: Submission to Labour Select Committee by Crafts Council
of New Zealand', 14 March 1980. CCNZ Records, 92-278, 10/01.
18
D. F. Butler to the Manager of the Hot Glass Company, 1 October 1980, 92-278, 10/01.
19
Howard Williams and Craftspeople Against Sales Tax Committee to Select Committee: Factories
and Commercial Premises Act 1979, 12 March 1980, CCNZ Records, 92-278, 10/01.
20 Rosaleen McCarroll, Otago Daily Times, 3 October 1988.
21
ibid., Liquid embroidery is the painting of fabric.
22 Simon King, Otago Daily Times, 12 October 1988.
23
Fiona Dunkley, Otago Daily Times, 14 October 1988. New Zealand Craft Shows Ltd was a CCNZ
member and advertised the shows in New Zealand Crafts.
24
Beverly Greig, 'Letter: The Craft Shows', New Zealand Crafts, Spring 1989, p.2.
25
M. F. McClelland to Alan Loney, Editor of Craft New Zealand, 18 October 1989, CCNZ Records, 92-
278, Box 12.
26
Justine Olsen, John Parker, and Cliff Whiting, eds, Mau Mahara : Our Stories in Craft Auckland,
1990.
27
Approximately one sixth of the projected audience viewed the exhibition in Wellington and
Auckland.
28 Jenny Pattrick to John Scott, 6 August 1991, CCNZ Records, 92-278, 03/04.
29
W. H. Oliver, 'The Awakening Imagination', in W. H. Oliver and B. R. Williams, eds, The Oxford
History of New Zealand, Oxford, 1981, p.452.
30
'Review of the Professional Infrastructure in the Craft Sector in New Zealand', 1991, p.20.
31
ibid., pp.6-7.
32
By 30 September 1991 the CCNZ’s membership had fallen from approximately 1400 in 1984 to 960,
representing approximately 4.3 ‒ 6.4% of all craftspeople in New Zealand.
33
The Board’s final name. AMBA closed down in December 1995 after its funding from Creative New
Zealand (previously the QEII Arts Council) was withdrawn.
34
Peter Gibbs, 'Craft Art Crossroads', Listener, 145, 2835 August 13, 1994, p.43.
35
ibid.
36
ibid.
37
Judy Wilson Goode, 'Craft Aotearoa', Craft Context, July 1993, p.3.
38
Lawrence Ewing, 'Options for a National Craft Organisation', Craft Context, February 1993, p.3.
39
The Charter was granted in 1982.
40
Craft Aotearoa was wound up in September 1993.

16. What went wrong?

1 The work had been subjected to a selection procedure
2
Janet Mansfield, 'Plurality and Necessity: An Antipodean Case Study,' in Paul Greenhalgh, ed., The
Persistence of Craft. The Applied Arts Today, London, 2002, p.149.
3
Bruce Metcalf, 'Replacing the Myth of Modernism', American Craft, 53, 1 1993, p.40.
4
ibid.

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