Jewellery Tutors Art and Craft Tutor Hungry Creek Art & Craft School Puhoi Auckland New Zealand

Hungry Creek Art & Craft School, Puhoi, New Zealand

TUTORS

Hungry Creek Art and Craft School is a Private Training Establishment registered with the New Zealand Qualifications Authority. Currently the school consists of 60 full time students and 17 staff. Being a relatively small school we have a friendly atmosphere, we all know and support each other. Hungry Creek welcomes students of all ages from different backgrounds and origins.

Andrew Venter - Founder and Head of School
Andrew established and built Hungry Creek Art & Craft School on 20 acres of native bush in Puhoi. During the 1980s, he established work schemes focusing on the crafts, in particular, jewellery and pottery. In 1990 the first NZQA approved tertiary qualifications were offered. Since then the school has grown to offer five approved qualifications.

Ruth Tait - Director of Studies
Diploma in Applied Arts, Northland Polytechnic Ruth has been with Hungry Creek since 1994. During this time the school has grown from having two qualifications to five and from approximately 19 students to 50-60 students.

JEWELLERY TUTORS

HOD Jewellery: Shane Hartdegen
Trade of Precious Metal Working and Mounting including Diamond Mounting, Department of Labour, Pretoria, South Africa. National Higher Diploma: Jewellery Design and Manufacture (Cum Laude), Technikon Kwa-Zulu, South Africa.

Jewellery Design Tutor: Andrea Daly

Andrea is a practicing jeweller who works from her own studio.
She studied in Australia at Sydney College of the Arts and completed an undergraduate Bachelor and Post Graduate Diploma in Visual Arts majoring in Contemporary Jewellery. She later went on to complete a Masters in Philosophy First Class Honors majoring in Art History at Auckland University. Andrea exhibits nationally and internationally and is held in both public and private collections. She has been a partner in Fingers Jewellery Gallery, Auckland, since 1991. Andrea has been involved in teaching on numerous night courses, weekend workshops and guest lecturer spots as well as being a lecturer at Manukau Institute of Technology, in the Visual Arts Degree Course, until 2004.

Technical and Practical Skills Tutor: Lisa Woods

Dip, Teaching Early Childhood Education, Cert Adv Craft Diamond Mounting, Sir John Cass, London, B.A. (Hons) Degree Art and Design, Jewellery, Central St Matins School of Art London. Lisa left New Zealand in 1982 and lived overseas mostly in England, returning in 1994. She taught Jewellery on an itinerant basis at A.S.A, M.I.T, Unitec and currently at Hungry Creek part-time since 2004. Lisa has a private studio where she works on commissions and Gallery pieces.

ART AND CRAFT TUTORS

Senior Painting: Patrick Malone

MFA (Honours) Painting, Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland University.

Ceramics: Cherrie James
Cherrie is a qualified teacher. She is a graduate of Hungry Creek Art & Craft School with a Diploma in Art & Craft Advanced. Cherrie has exhibited in Sculpture on the Shore, been a finalist in the Wallace Art Awards and winner of the Rodney Art Awards.

Painting and Ceramics: Richard Darbyshire
Diploma in 3D Design (ceramics major), Waikato Polytechnic. Diploma in Art & Craft (Honours) (painting major), Hungry Creek Art & Craft School. Richard is a working artist who exhibits new paintings every year, both solo and group shows. He worked as a potter for ten years, and continues to create ceramic artworks.

Life Drawing: Alan Croggon
Spending several years working at a Fine Arts publishing company in London gave Alan an appreciation of the diversity of fine art. In 1995 he enrolled at Hungry Creek as a full time student and gained a Diploma in Art & Craft majoring in Painting. Alan feels Hungry Creek has always placed a strong emphasis on Life Drawing believing, as he does, that it is a solid foundation base from which to work no matter which subject. Alans preference is to paint landscapes in oils.
'My imagination is my compositional source.'

Sculpture, Art History and Professional Studies: Anna McLeod
Anna holds a BFA(Hons) from Elam School of Fine Arts, with a long standing interest in sculpture. She has been a practicing artist for 9 years, and has exhibited regularly in both solo and group shows. Her interest is site specific sculpture and installation, referencing a constructivist approach to making. Anna discovered her passion for teaching whilst teaching sculpture workshops in the community and in schools. She is currently the sculpture tutor, as well as teaching year 3 and 4 art history and professional studies.

Design and Art History: Alexis Neal
Since completing a Masters degree in Fine Art Media at the Slade School of Fine arts in London, Alexis has continued to develop her professional practice as a contemporary New Zealand artist. Alongside her professional career Alexis has also fulfilled tutoring positions in both academic and community intuitions. As a practicing artist her work involves defining a place for women’s cultural identity and predominately has looked at the duality of artifacts in terms of personal adornment and material culture. Her studio practice is interdisciplinary, combining components of printing, sewn feather canvases, weaving and installation works together to address Maori traditional whakapapa in a contemporary context.