WARREN TIPPET: ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

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Year
1994
Reference
F43995
Media type
Moving image
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Rights Information
Year
1994
Reference
F43995
Media type
Moving image
Item unavailable online
Place of production
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Categories
Television
Duration
0:12:34
Production company
TVNZ: Sunday Arts
Credits
Director: Mary Debrett

After 7 years in Sydney, local potter Warren Tippet returns to Auckland to take up the position of Artist in Residence at Carrington Polytechnic Design School. Warren’s work is known for its Pacific context but he claims it to be plain fantasy. The combination of fantasy and the durability of his pieces has won him a keen following here and overseas.
In the 1980s while visiting friends in Japan, an invitation to exhibit in Tokyo resulted in a resounding success for Warren and today his pieces are much sought after.
Craft design students are encouraged to develop skills across a broad range of disciplines, to be strong enough to go ahead and test their own ground and not be dictated to by the market.
Following a successful show of decorative, tile framed mirrors in Sydney, Warren intends to explore architectural applications of ceramics which he feels will start a whole new way of thinking for him.