Lucy Hammonds. SUPPLIED
Rotorua Museum has announced the appointment of highly regarded New Zealand art curator Lucy Hammonds as the judge for this year's Rotorua Museum Art Awards.
Hammonds has recently been appointed to the position of Curator at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Known for its extensive background as a leader in
the presentation of cutting edge contemporary art, Dunedin Public Art Gallery also cares for a significant collection of historical art.
Formerly Curator, Art and Design Collections at MTG Hawke's Bay, Hammonds was born in Auckland and trained in the innovative Critical Studies programme at Unitec School of Design. After a period in the commercial gallery world, she emerged in the early 2000s as a curator with wide ranging interests including contemporary New Zealand art, craft/object making, design and fashion history.
Hammonds is a prolific writer, with major publishing projects including 'Architecture of the Heart' (MTG Hawke's Bay, 2013) and 'The Dress Circle - New Zealand Fashion Design Since 1940' (Random House, 2010), a finalist in the 2011 New Zealand Post Book Awards.
Entries for the 2015 Rotorua Museum Art Awards close on Monday 4 May so there is just over a week for people to submit their entry forms.
