Coffee & Croissants with Warwick Freeman and Kim Paton

10.30am coffee pouring
11am talk begins

Join us for an opening weekend Coffee & Croissants kōrero to welcome in with jeweller Warwick Freeman and curator Kim Paton.

Warwick and Kim will share reflections on the unconventional approach taken for this retrospective exhibition, working in partnership with one of the largest design museums in the world – Die Neue Sammlung in Munch – and the five decades of practice brought together in Hook Hand Heart Star.

Get your $10 ticket to attend this morning talk with a coffee & croissant in hand.

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Warwick Freeman (b.1953, Nelson) began making jewellery in 1972. As a prominent member of Auckland Jewellery Co-operative, Fingers, he was at the forefront of a rethinking of New Zealand contemporary jewellery practice that began in the 1980s. He has exhibited internationally since that time. In 2002 he was made a Laureate by the Francoise van den Bosch Foundation based at the Stedelijk Museum. In the same year Freeman received a laureate award from the Arts Foundation of New Zealand. In 2014, Freeman co-curated the exhibition Wunderrūma, with jeweller, Karl Fritsch. Wunderrūma was presented at Galerie Handwerk in Munich, and on its return to New Zealand at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. In 2025 he was honoured by the Designers Institute of New Zealand with a John Britten Black Pin. Freeman has also been involved in governance and curatorial activities, and his works are held in public and private collections in Aotearoa and internationally.

Kim Paton has been the Director of Objectspace since 2015. Her interest is in interdisciplinary exhibition making across the fields of craft, design, architecture and contemporary art. In 2024 she was awarded the Garvey Cup by Te Kāhui Whaihanga NZIA in honour of her commitment to supporting architecture and its place in the public realm. Paton has curated and written extensively on object-based art forms.

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Coffee & Croissants is a conversation series supported by our friends at Allpress Espresso and Daily Bread.

Images:

[Header] Warwick Freeman, Insignia, 1997, photograph by Sam Hartnett
[Above] Warwick Freeman in his studio, photograph by Sam Hartnett

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