Platform 24 – Craft Encounters

The exhibition opening 17 November at The Gray Place Gallery in Auckland, brings collectively ten mid-career designer/makers, presenting an array of craft explorations, furnishings kinds, assemblages, and carved sculptures, with widespread beliefs of respect for supplies and the surroundings working by way of the work.

Guests can count on top quality craftsmanship and numerous supplies starting from boiled leather-based to plexiglass, with discovered objects and treasured native timber inbetween. Every practitioner brings their journey of trade expertise, concepts, and abilities to the discussion board, making for a diverse and completed present.

Platform 24 — Craft Encounters options Platform instigators Edward Fuller and Kennedy Brown, joined by Leon Kipa, Tim Wigmore, Rebecca Asquith, Chad Heays, Marion Courtillé, Roger Kelly, Rupert Herring, and Katy Wallace.

With the cohort based mostly as far aside as Auckland, Hawkes Bay, Taranaki and Tairawhiti, Platform has created a motive to come back collectively — energy in numbers. One of many greatest outcomes organisers anticipate from the discussion board is: “The chance to hang around with individuals who converse the identical language of creating and share a ardour for supplies and concepts.”

Platform 24 is the primary in what Platform envision will likely be an ongoing occasion in New Zealand’s design and craft calendar.

Key data and dates

Exhibition identify: Platform 24 — Craft Encounters
Dates: 19 November–7 December 2024
Opening occasion: Sunday 17 November, 3:00 pm
Closing occasion/meet the artists: Saturday 7 December, 12.30 pm
Location: The Gray Place Gallery, 37 Scanlan Road, Gray Lynn, Auckland