With the Creative NZ cake being cut into thinner
and thinner slices it's easy to forget how important some of those slices have
been. We saw a solid demonstration when we visited John Parker a few weeks ago.
He was in the midst of a firing for his next exhibition and as we stood around
the kiln John mentioned that he had been firing his work in it for 23 years
almost to the day. He has had two arts council grants. With the first he bought
a wheel and with the second of $14,000 in 1990 this electric kiln. Thousands of
pots later it's still going strong.
You can check out who received grants
from the latest CNZ round by going here at 5 pm. The fact that we know this is
thanks to CNZ now pre announcing when grants will be made public.
