My award arrived today

Here is a quick 'selfie' with my award, which arrived in the post today. I will have to take some better photos later. It will find a home in my tiny studio and hopefully inspire me to create more great things with polymer clay.

 

Thank you IPCA for arranging the competition and the jurors for selecting my sculpture as a winning finalist.

 

Also, a big thank you to CreativeNZ for the grant funding, which enabled me to attend the EuroSynergy Conference where the awards were announced.

I made it into the North Shore Times

PRESS RELEASE: Local artist representing NZ at conference in Malta

Browns Bay polymer clay artist, Claire Fairweather, is thrilled to have received grant funding from Creative New Zealand towards travel costs to attend EuroSynergy 2014. This conference from 30 April to 3 May, organised by the International Polymer Clay Association, will have seminars presented by the world’s leading polymer clay artists and practioners.

Claire also has one of her polymer clay artworks, a three part sculpture titled “Spring Trio”, selected by the jurors for the 2014 International Polymer Clay Awards Exhibition. The photo exhibition will be displayed and prizes awarded at the Eurosynergy Conference.

“Polymer clay is still in its infancy as a creative medium in New Zealand” says Claire, “I have started teaching others how to use polymer clay but there is so much more for me to learn as I am self taught. I am so fortunate to have this opportunity to meet and learn from the masters, to improve my own skills and knowledge, which I can then pass on here in New Zealand”.

You can see “Spring Trio” and other examples Claire’s polymer clay artwork in her solo exhibition running throughout April at Beach Café at 1a Beach Front Lane, Browns Bay. It is a great place to have a coffee or food from the tempting menu, whilst enjoying the sea view and the artwork on the walls.
(https://www.facebook.com/events/662729837103512)

If you want to try it for yourself, Claire will be teaching polymer clay workshops and classes at Glaze, 17c Vega Place, Rosedale, North Shore (http://www.glaze.co.nz/craft-art-classes/polymer-clay-classes/polymer-clay-intro-class.html) and at the Lake House Arts Centre in Takapuna (http://www.lakehousearts.org.nz/calendar/adult-weekend-workshops)

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Spring Trio selected for International Polymer Clay Awards Exhibition

Spring Trio

One of my three entries in the International Polymer Clay Awards 2014 has been selected by the jurors for the International Polymer Clay Awards Exhibition. This selection will also be evaluated by the jurors for 'Best in Show' and IPCA members for 'Members Favourite'. The photo exhibition will be displayed and prizes awarded at the Eurosynergy Conference in Malta on 30 April.

 

I am so excited that I will actually be going to the conference in person, so I will be able to see the exhibition and be present when the awards are announced and presented.

EuroSynergy may be a possibilty?

Today I sent off my grant application to Creative new Zealand, for a Quick Response Grant, to attend the International Polymer Clay Association's EuroSynergy Conference in Malta.

This would be such a fantastic opportunity for my development as a polymer clay artist and to be able to bring back as much new knowledge as I can for the benefit of polymer clay artists in New Zealand. There are no attendees from New Zealand booked on the conference so far, and if polymer clay is to advance in this country, someone really needs to be there. So, I shall keep everything crossed but the announcement of the successful grant applicants will not be made until 14 March 2014.