{{for|the computing memory paradigm|Object Space}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=April 2024}} {{Infobox museum | name = Objectspace | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image = Objectspace.jpg | image_size = | caption = | alt = | coordinates = {{coord|-36.8580|174.7475|display=inline,title}} | former_name = | established = {{Start date|2004}} | location = 13 Rose Road, Ponsonby, Auckland | type = Art gallery | accreditation = | key_holdings = | collections = | collection_size = | visitors = | founder = | director = Kim Paton | president = | curator = | owner = | public_transit = | parking = | network = | website = {{URL|http://www.objectspace.org.nz}} | embedded = }} '''Objectspace''' is a public art gallery in Auckland, New Zealand. It opened in 2004 and is dedicated to the fields of craft, applied arts and design.<ref>{{cite web|title=Craft and applied arts|url=http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/ephemera/45335/best-in-show-exhibition-at-objectspace-2008|website=Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand|publisher=Ministry for Culture and heritage|access-date=9 December 2014}}</ref>
==Organisation== Objectspace's founding chair was jeweller Warwick Freeman.<ref>{{cite web|title=Three new Governors|url=http://www.thearts.co.nz/news.php%26news_id%3D473|website=The Arts Foundation|access-date=10 December 2014|archive-date=6 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141206023016/http://www.thearts.co.nz/news.php%26news_id%3D473|url-status=dead}}</ref> The gallery's founding director was Philip Clarke (2004 - 2015). Kim Paton was appointed as the current director in 2015.<ref>{{cite web|title=Objectspace announces new Director|url=http://www.creativenz.govt.nz/news/objectspace-announces-new-director|website=Creative New Zealand|publisher=Ministry for Culture and Heritage|access-date=18 February 2024|date=14 August 2015|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180219154633/https://www.creativenz.govt.nz/news/objectspace-announces-new-director |archive-date=19 February 2018}}</ref>
Administered by the Objectspace charitable trust, the gallery receives support from Creative New Zealand and The Friends of Objectspace.<ref name='Objectspace'>{{cite web|title=Objectspace About us|url=http://www.objectspace.org.nz/About-Us/|website=Objectspace|access-date=9 December 2014|archive-date=14 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141214111008/http://www.objectspace.org.nz/About-Us/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Arts Leadership Investment|url=http://www.creativenz.govt.nz/en/results-of-our-work/who-got-funded/funding-rounds/arts-leadership-investment-toi-totara-haemata-2011-4?page=2&sort=artform_name&utf8=%E2%9C%93|website=Creative New Zealand|publisher=Ministry for Culture and Heritage|access-date=9 December 2014}}</ref>
The 2017 trustees are: *Andrew Barrie *Ben Corban (Chair) *Kristin D’Agostino *Tommy Honey *Kim Smith *Kimina Styche *Pauline Ray *Deborah Crowe *Kolokesa Mahina-Tuai *Cathy Veninga
The trustees have appointed Octavia Cook, Marianne Hargreaves, Justine Olsen and Areta Wilkinson as special advisors.<ref name='Objectspace'/>
==Master of Craft series== The Objectspace Masters of Craft exhibition series highlights a New Zealand practitioner and is accompanied by a publication. Former chair Warwick Freeman writes 'A Master of Craft is someone who has acquired a deep understanding around a particular making practice. They make work that is honed by the experience of doing something very well for a very long time'.<ref>{{cite web|title=Masters of Craft|url=http://objectspace.org.nz/Objectspace-Masters-of-Craft/|website=Objectspace|access-date=9 December 2014|archive-date=14 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141214114127/http://objectspace.org.nz/Objectspace-Masters-of-Craft/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Artists who have been recognized in this series include:
* industrial designer Peter Haythornthwaite (2018)<ref>{{cite web|title=Design Generation|url=http://www.objectspace.org.nz/exhibitions/design-generation/|website=Objectspace|access-date=2 March 2018|language=en}}</ref> * graphic designer Mark Cleverley (2014)<ref>{{cite book|last1=Valentine|first1=Jonty|title=Mark Cleverley: designer|date=2014|publisher=David Bateman|location=Auckland|isbn=9781869538699}}</ref> * interior designer Nanette Cameron (2013)<ref>{{cite book|last1=Cameron|first1=Kirsty|last2=Lockhart|first2=Katie|last3=Stone|first3=Vivienne|title=Nanette Cameron: Interior design legend|date=2013|publisher=Objectspace|location=Auckland|oclc=871006704}}</ref> * jeweller Kobi Bosshard (2012) * potter Richard Parker (2011)<ref>{{cite book|last1=Fahey|first1=Richard|title=Richard Parker: masters of craft|date=2011|publisher=Objectspace|location=Auckland|isbn=9780987650207}}</ref>
==2017 relocation and extension of mission==
In 2017 Objectspace moved from its original premises to new premises at 13 Rose Road in Ponsonby, Auckland.<ref name="12 Questions">{{cite news|title=Twelve questions with Objectspace director Kim Paton|agency=New Zealand Herald}}</ref> The new gallery has increased space for exhibitions.<ref name="Noted">{{cite web|last1=Barratt|first1=Michael|title=Objectspace gallery reinvents itself as an architecture and design destination|url=http://www.noted.co.nz/culture/arts/objectspace-gallery-reinvents-itself-as-an-architecture-and-design-destination/|website=Noted|access-date=28 July 2017|archive-date=28 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170728124428/http://www.noted.co.nz/culture/arts/objectspace-gallery-reinvents-itself-as-an-architecture-and-design-destination/|url-status=dead}}</ref> The move was driven by an increase in Objectspace's funding from Creative New Zealand, to include the disciplines of architecture and design alongside craft and applied art.<ref name ="Noted"/> The opening exhibitions included an installation in the new courtyard space by Warwick Freeman, an exhibition of a collaboration between typographer Kris Sowersby and design agency Alt Group, and ''FutureIslands'', a restaging of the New Zealand presentation at the 2016 Venice Biennale of Architecture.<ref name ="Noted"/> The new gallery opened on 27 July 2017.<ref name="12 Questions"/>
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== External links == * [http://www.objectspace.org.nz/ Objectspace website] *[http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/standing-room-only/audio/201783589/objectspace's-crafty-plans Interview with director Kim Paton], ''Standing Room Only'', RNZ National, 20 December 2015
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