The national impact of a Crown Lynn designer
will be echoing through the Titirangi War Memorial Hall at Going West Books and Writers
Festival when Mark Cleverley— a Crown Lynn son –will take the stage to
discuss his design career and the recent book published about him in the
session called Home Grown on Saturday 13th September at 9:00am.
Mark has been honoured by his peers this year
as a Master of Craft, and a retrospective recognising his work is currently
showing at Objectspace Gallery in Ponsonby. His bilingual communication design
has been recognised with a Winston Churchill Fellowship Award, and in 2013 he
was inducted into the Massey University, College of Creative Arts Toi
Rauwharangi Hall of Fame.
Cleverley worked as Development Designer at
Crown Lynn Potteries from 1967 to 1979 and is best known for designs such as
the classics Echo and Juliana. Juliana
features a simplified tulip shape, although Mark says a relative of his thought
they looked more like chickens. In the 1970s, Mark designed the dinnerware used at Bellamy’s Restaurant
in Parliament, commissioned, reputedly, after the ‘Minister for Wine and
Cheese’, Jonathon Hunt, then MP for New Lynn, insisted that the Parliamentary
crockery should be made in New Zealand.
Mark’s experience at Crown Lynn and his work as
a packaging, graphic and postage stamp designer and typographer contributed to
his subsequent successful career as a highly respected lecturer at Wellington
Polytechnic and Victoria University, where he has taught generations of students
who will in turn shape the future of design in New Zealand.
The session is called Home Grown and is on Saturday 13th
September at 9.00am. At this session
Mark will be joined by Jonty Valentine, one of the authors of the recent book Mark Cleverley: designer, and Valerie
Monk, author of Crown Lynn: a New Zealand
Icon and the Crown Lynn Collector’s
Handbook. The session will be
chaired by Objectspace director Philip Clarke.
Going West Books and Writers Festival is keen to add your Crown Lynn stories to their archives .
Send in your favourite Crown Lynn story to info@goingwestfest.co.nz (put Crown Lynn
Story in the subject line and include your name and full contact details)
and if we receive your story before the 11th of Sept. you have a chance to win
a ticket to attend the Home
Grown session. Stories will be accepted up to Sept
30th, and will
be added to the Going West Archives, held at the West Auckland Research Centre,
Waitakere Central Library, Henderson.
The
Going West Books and Writers Festival, 12 – 14 September 2014,
Titirangi War Memorial Hall. www.goingwestfest.co.nz. Tickets at the door or from www.eventfinder.co.nz
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