Marsden Parents Association ADVENT FAIR 2015 Catalogue
All funds raised to support the school and the new building. To purchase an item please email marsdenparents@gmail.com and cite the number, description and price. For more information, please contact Anita Hartshorne 021 079 5176 These items were kindly donated by Ros Elliott (nee Kirkcaldie) who is an Old Girl. We thank her for her support of the school.
Matua Tangira 1: Hand Crafted Pacific Shell Necklace $50 2: Hand Crafted Pacific Shell Necklace $40 61mm x 23mm 3: Hand Crafted Pacific Shell Necklace $40 43mm diameter cite the number, description and price. Page 3
4: Hand Crafted Pacific Shell Necklace $40 68mm x 30mm 5: Hand Crafted Pacific Shell Necklace $40 50mm x 40mm cite the number, description and price. Page 4
David Woods 6: Carved Bone Pendant $50 34mm diameter 7: Carved Bone Pendant $50 42mm x 33mm 8: Carved Bone Pendant $50 29mm diameter cite the number, description and price. Page 5
9: Carved Bone Pendant $50 45mm x 35mm cite the number, description and price. Page 6
Chris Elliott Chris Elliott is a Hawke's Bay artist who was born in Uganda, moved to England when he was 6 and finally to New Zealand in 1974 where he earned his living as a musician for18 years. In his own words, he is an 'eclectic, multi-talented artist working in a variety of media and styles'. He has been commissioned to create a number of public sculptures in bronze : bust of Gottfried Lindauer, the NZ portraitist, life-size bronze sculptures of John Balance and Peter Snell for the Wanganui City Council. He has studied under Alan Brown and attended various workshops in painting, drawing, sculpture, particularly carving greenstone, marble, wood and bone. 10: Greenstone Pendant $40 61mm x 23mm cite the number, description and price. Page 7
Unknown Artist 11: Ceramic Pendant $40 51mm diameter cite the number, description and price. Page 8
Rowan Baker An up and coming artist, Rowan Baker was born and remains located in Hawke's Bay. At the young age of fourteen he started honing his abilities of manipulating materials, firstly in Bone & Pounamu, next adding wood to the mix, creating small contemporary pieces of sculpture. After spending a number of years focusing on the trade of cabinet-making, he has returned to his roots with his newly developed skills in precision grinding, designing pendants and cabinets thus creating personal sculptures for men and women in a range of materials. 12: Greenstone Pendant $70 70mm x 29mm 13: Greenstone / Stone Pendant $70 58mm x 48mm cite the number, description and price. Page 9
14: Greenstone / Stone Pendant $70 54mm x 38mm 15: Greenstone / Granite Paperweight $40 44mm x 61mm x 23mm cite the number, description and price. Page 10
Lynden Over Lynden Over has studied glass extensively. His training was at Northland polytechnic where he completed the diploma of applied arts, majoring in glass and jewellery. On the completion of his study he continued to work in glass renting a local glass studio where he developed his own original range of collectable glassware. In 2002 Lynden, Christine and family moved to Taupo and opened Lava Glass Glass Blowing Studio and Gallery. All work in the gallery is made on the premises. 16: Signed by Lynden Over $80 97mm x 70mm cite the number, description and price. Page 11
Judith Rosamund I work predominately in ceramics and glass but incorporate other mediums as needed. Currently I am using LED lights in my sculptures and a modified screen printing process with my ceramics. One of my favourite formats is the tile; an interest that began many years ago after a visit to the Alhambra in southern Spain. The many examples of beautiful handmade tiles in this old Moorish castle inspired me to start making my own when I returned to New Zealand. Over the years since, I have developed a wide range of ceramic and glass tile making techniques. 17: Ceramic Glazed Tile $40 180mm x 180mm, depth 9mm 18: Ceramic Glazed Tile $40 180mm x 180mm, depth 9mm cite the number, description and price. Page 12
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Unknown 19: Ceramic Tile $40 150mm x 150mm depth 10mm (felt backing) cite the number, description and price. Page 14
Keith Mahy Keith Mahy is one of the founding fathers of art glass in New Zealand. He studied sculpture and design at Elam School of Fine Arts. His career in glass started in 1970 when he was appointed Design Director at Crown Crystal Glass in Christchurch. Keith designed many of the successful ranges of glassware produced by Crown Crystal Glass. In 1976 Keith started making his own glass creations from a studio he built in a derelict cow shed just north of Hikurangi at Otonga, Northland. Over the years, Keith has won many awards and has exhibited his work widely overseas. In 1984 and 1985 he won Phillips Studio Glass Awards, and in 1986 he became tutor in Glass and Design at Northland Polytechnic. 20: Pink Cylinder Shard Vase $80 220mm x 70mm 21: Pink Cylinder Shard Vase, slight imperfection in firing process $80 250mm x 85mm cite the number, description and price. Page 15
Neil Hanna Neil Hanna is a well-known New Zealand artist who has had a lifetime interest in collecting, cutting and carving stones. Originally trained as a jeweller, he worked in London where he studied gemmology, graduating as a Fellow of the Gemmological Association of Great Britain in 1971. Neil has since worked as a professional artist in Auckland. During that time he has built his reputation on lapidary and stone cutting techniques. Materials such as nephrite jade, opal and lapis lazuli feature in his work. 22: Kauri Gum / Mother of Pearl Pendant $70 68mm x 38mm 23: Mother of Pearl Pendant $60 67mm x 50mm cite the number, description and price. Page 16
24: Mother of Pearl Pendant $50 68mm x 38mm cite the number, description and price. Page 17
Graham Jeremy 25: Dolphin Tie Slide Sterling Silver $80 7 grams length 65mm 26: Cup and Saucer, Tie Slide Sterling Silver $80 7 grams length 65mm 27: Plain bar, Tie Slide Sterling Silver $60 cite the number, description and price. Page 18
7 grams length 65mm 28: Sun Tie Slide Sterling Silver $80 7 grams length 65mm 29: Frog Tie Slide Sterling Silver $80 7 grams length 65mm cite the number, description and price. Page 19
Luke Jacomb "Once glass gets a hold of you, it's impossible to break free," says Luke Jacomb, who must have crystalline coursing through his blood. His father, John Croucher, is a wellknown glass artist who, in the 70s, started one of the first glass-blowing co-op studios in New Zealand. A chip off the old block, Jacomb is a master of glass blowing, an under-appreciated artform that embraces thousands of techniques. "You never, ever learn everything about it. Some days I hate it but glass is still my teacher," he says. Known for his impossibly beautiful, intricately detailed blown-glass paddles, Jacomb brings a breadth of experience to his work. With a solid grounding in glass chemistry from his dad, he lived for eight years in the US where he was fortunate to spend summers working at the Corning Museum of Glass. There he was classically trained by virtuosos such as Elio Quarisa, a primo maestro of Murano glass work. 30: Hand Blown Black Glass Pendant $60 60mm x 32mm 31: Hand Blown White Glass Pendant $60 cite the number, description and price. Page 20 +
58mm x 34mm 32: Hand Blown Black Glass Pendant $60 56mm x 32mm 33: Hand Blown Blue Glass Pendant $60 55mm x 30mm cite the number, description and price. Page 21
Peter Mitchell Peter is New Zealand born of European-Maori-Pitcairn Island descent. Bone carving is a traditional New Zealand Maori craft and it is on this culture that his contemporary designs are based. Fishing is an important part of Maori culture, and this is reflected in his carvings depicting dolphins, whales tails and fishhooks. Another key element in many designs is the Koru, which is designed from the new fern frond as it opens. His carvings are made from beef (bovine) bone and whale bone and have been featured in Galleries, Museums and quality Souvenir outlets throughout New Zealand for 22 years. He has also had his work exhibited in the UK where he exhibited in National Trust Galleries. 34: Carved Bone Pendant $50 38mm x 32mm 35: Carved Bone Pendant $50 38mm x 32mm cite the number, description and price. Page 22
36: Carved Bone Pendant $50 55mm x 30mm cite the number, description and price. Page 23
37: Carved Bone Pendant $50 38mm diameter 38: Carved Bone Pendant $50 62mm x 28mm 39: Carved Bone Pendant $50 32mm diameter cite the number, description and price. Page 24
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Wall Mountings 40: Wall Mounting in Red Brick Glaze $30 120mm x 100mm 41: Wall Mounting in Red Brick Glaze $30 120mm x 100mm cite the number, description and price. Page 26
Ron van der Vlugt A life-long fascination with moving colour and light motivates glass blower Ron van der Vlugt. His work has a sense of movement, an instant of fluid light and colour frozen in glass. As a child Ron experimented in the dark with torches and pieces of coloured plastic from car tail lights. As a glass blower, he is intrigued by the elusive challenge of capturing the shifting qualities of light and colour as the glass moves from a glowing, flowing, molten state into a cool, hard, solid shape. Like the Italian glass blowers, Ron works "hot and fast" with few tools, working the glass quickly while it is fluid and hot, relying on the natural forces of gravity and spinning to shape it. He says this makes him more in tune with the glass, so that while he doesn't always control the tricky medium, at least he understands it. Ron developed his art first in the US, at California Art Glass, then the Wanganui Glass Blowing School, and the Toyama Institute of Glass Art in Japan where he was exposed to Japanese aesthetics and the sophisticated techniques of the Italians. Ron now works from his own De Flute Glass studio in Rotorua. 42: Paperweight $70 118mm depth 30mm cite the number, description and price. Page 27
43: Paperweight $70 112mm depth 27mm cite the number, description and price. Page 28
Necklaces 44: Necklace $30 25mm x 19mm 45: Necklace $30 19.5mm diameter 46: Necklace $30 25mm x 19mm cite the number, description and price. Page 29
Hook Earrings 47: Hook Earrings $30 13.5mm diameter 48: Hook Earrings $30 13.5mm diameter 49: Hook Earrings $30 13.5mm diameter cite the number, description and price. Page 30
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