Clark Collection/Creative NZ Scholarship
19 July 2009
The prestigious Clark Collection/Creative NZ Scholarship, worth $25,000, enables one New Zealander a year to attend the annual Attingham Summer School in England. It is a remarkable opportunity for mid-career professionals in the arts and heritage sector to expand their knowledge of built-heritage and decorative arts. Recipients also have the opportunity to undergo relevant internships with up to four leading UK heritage and decorative arts organisations: the Victoria & Albert Museum (the V&A); the Royal Collection; English Heritage; and the National Trust. They can also visit other collections during their time in the UK.
Josephine Hughes (pictured right) is the 2009 Clark Collection/Creative NZ Scholar, the sixth to win the Scholarship.
Josphine is design leader at Hawke's Bay Museum and Art Gallery and has been designing exhibitions there since 1999. Recognised by her peers as one of NZ's leading museum exhibition designers, she is known for her dramatic design and has previously worked at the Auckland War Memorial Museum, the DowseArt Gallery in Lower Hutt and the Robert McDougall Gallery in Christchurch.
She says the fresh perspectives and additional knowledge gained from this "fantastic opportunity" will be invaluable going into a major re-development of the Hawke's Bay Museum that will see the museum complex, designed by Art Deco architect Louis Hay, restored and new buildings designed to meet the museum's needs for the 21st century.
Since its inception, the NZ-UK Link Foundation has provided assistance for this Scholarship for New Zealand Decorative Arts/Built Heritage Sector professionals in the form of a return British Airways airfare for the successful candidates.
Previous Scholars
In 2008, Priscilla Pitts, general manager heritage destinations for NZ's Historic Places Trust, said the Scholarship programme offered her "unique insights into the conservation of historic buildings, their contents and their grounds, as well as a better understanding of hos to bring heritage sites to life through skilful presentation." Claire Regnault, concept development manager at TheNewDose and Petone Settlers Museum was the 2007 Clark Collection/Creative New Zealand Scholar. In 2006, Robyn Notman, now public programmes manager at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery went to Attingham. In 2005, Angela Lassig, senior curator history at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, spent time at the Royal Collection, part of which was spent assisting with preparations for Buckingham Palace's summer exhibition "Queen Elizabeth's White Wardrobe by Norman Hartnell, Paris, 1938", the remainder with Senior Curator of the Royal Dress Collection, Joanna Marschner, who is based at Kensington Palace. Louis le Vaillant, Curator of Applied Arts at Auckland Museum was the winner of the 2004 Scholarship, which enabled him to become more informed about the cultural and historical context of the objects in the Auckland Museum collection and to assist his further interpretation, he said. The inaugural 2003 Scholar was David Reynolds, Auckland area office coordinator for the NZ Historic Places Trust.
The Clark Collection/Creative New Zealand Scholarship is gifted by financier, art connoisseur and heritage advocate Erroll Clark, with the support of Museums Aotearoa, Creative New Zealand, the NZ-UK Link Foundation and British Airways.
Files
- Clark Collection Scholar 2006
- Download: CCCNZ_Scholarship_announcement1__media__2006.pdf (147.46 KB)
- Clark Collection/Creative New Zealand Scholar 2007
- Download: CCCNZ_Scholarship_announcement__media__2007.pdf (63.61 KB)
- Clark Collection/Creative NZ Scholarship
- Download: Clark_Collection_2006_-_Speech_1-3-06.pdf (107.93 KB)
- Notman to UK Release
- Download: CCCNZ_Scholarship_begins__media__2006_June__5_.pdf (183.82 KB)