Warwick Freeman

Warwick Stephen Freeman (born 5 January 1953) is a New Zealand jeweller.

Biography

Freeman was born in Nelson in 1953,[1][2] and was educated at Nelson College from 1966 to 1970.[3] He began making jewellery with Peter Woods in Perth in 1972.[1] He returned to New Zealand the following year and established a workshop in Nelson before moving to Auckland in 1975.[4] In 1977 he worked with Daniel Clasby, and with Jens Hansen in 1978.[4] Freeman was a member of the Auckland-based jewellery co-operative Fingers between 1978 and 2003.[1]

Freeman was one of twelve jewellers selected for the landmark 1988 Bone Stone Shell exhibition, developed by New Zealand's Craft Council for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and shown in Asia, Australia and New Zealand.[5] In 2002, he received a Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureate Award.[1] In the same year he was named 2002 Laureate by the Françoise van den Bosch Foundation, based at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.[1] He was the founding chair of Auckland contemporary craft and design gallery Objectspace, and in 2013 became a Governor of the New Zealand Arts Foundation.[6] In 2013 he was also the 'featured master' at the German contemporary jewellery festival Schmuck.[7]

In 1983, Freeman and fellow jeweller Alan Preston were asked by James Mack, then director of The Dowse Art Museum, to select items from the Auckland Museum's collection for an 1984 exhibition at The Dowse titled Pacific Adornment.[8] In 2014 Freeman co-curated Wunderrūma: New Zealand Jewellery with Karl Fritsch, a touring exhibition of New Zealand jewellery that showed at Galerie Handwerk in Munich as part of the Schmuck festival, and The Dowse Art Museum.[9]

His works are held various New Zealand and international collections, including at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, the Auckland War Memorial Museum, the Powerhouse Museum, the Neue Pinakothek, The Dowse Art Museum, the National Gallery of Australia, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.[10][11][12][2]

Selected solo exhibitions

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Selected group exhibitions

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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Biography, Warwick Freeman - Jeweller". The Arts Foundation. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Freeman, Warwick". Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Retrieved 13 December 2014.
  3. ↑ Nelson College Old Boys' Register, 1856–2006, 6th edition (CD-ROM).
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Schamroth, Helen (1998). 100 New Zealand Craft Artists. Auckland: Random House. p. 27. ISBN 1869620364.
  5. ↑ "Bone Stone Shell". Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Retrieved 4 December 2014.
  6. ↑ "Three new Governors". The Arts Foundation. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
  7. ↑ "Warwick Freeman". Art Jewelry Forum. 24 August 2013. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
  8. ↑ Skinner, Damian; Murray, Kevin (2014). Place and Adornment: A history of contemporary jewellery in Australia and New Zealand. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i. p. 141. ISBN 9781869538200.
  9. ↑ "Wunderrūma: New Zealand Jewellery". The Dowse Art Museum. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
  10. ↑ "Warwick Freeman". The National. Retrieved 17 March 2015.
  11. ↑ "'Warwick Freeman'". Luminaries. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
  12. ↑ "Warwick Freeman". Stedelijk Museum. Retrieved 17 March 2015.

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