# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Hook Hand Heart Star: Opening floor talk with Warwick Freeman
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 25 Jul, 2026 at 11:00 am – Sat, 25 Jul, 2026 at 12:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Join us for an opening weekend floor talk celebrating Warwick Freeman’s contribution to contemporary jewellery.

Made to be worn close, these works come from public and private collections across Aotearoa and around the world, reflecting big ideas and material mastery developed over more than 40 years of practice.

Hear from Freeman himself as he is joined by co-curators of Hook Hand Heart Star, Kim Paton and Bronwyn Lloyd. Together they will explore Freeman’s ongoing interest in making jewellery in Aotearoa, the richness of the materials it offers, and what it took to put together this dazzling retrospective. 

Registrations appreciated via https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/opening-floor-talk-hook-hand-heart-star-tickets-1987373935941?aff=oddtdtcreator

Warwick Freeman began making jewellery in 1972. As a prominent member of the 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. His works are held in public and private collections in Aotearoa and internationally including the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, the V&A, London, the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, LACMA, Los Angeles, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.

Dr Bronwyn Lloyd is a writer, curator and avid crafter based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Lloyd is co-curator and archivist for the exhibition Warwick Freeman: Hook Hand Heart Star, having spent one day a week across three years assembling a catalogue raisonné of Warwick Freeman’s jewellery. She contributed an essay to the accompanying monograph Warwick Freeman: Hook Hand Heart Star (arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2025), and has also recently been published in The Chair: A Story of design and making in Aotearoa (Objectspace, 2024), Modern Women: Flight of Time (Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 2024) and Crafting Aotearoa: A Cultural History of Making in New Zealand and the Wider Moana Oceania (Te Papa Press, 2019). 

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. Paton has curated and written extensively on object-based art forms, including for the Warwick Freeman monograph Hook Hand Heart Star (arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2025). She is the co-editor of the publication The Chair: A story of design and making in Aotearoa (2024), co-authored the book Contemporary Jewellery in Context (arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2017).
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/lower-hutt/hook-hand-heart-star-opening-floor-talk-with-warwick-freeman/200030344534207
- **Event Categories**: art, exhibitions, fine-arts, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 6

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Lower Hutt
- **state**: WG
- **country**: New Zealand
- **location**: 45 Laings Road, Lower Hutt, New Zealand 5010
- **lat**: -41.21203
- **long**: 174.90409
- **full address**: 45 Laings Road, Lower Hutt, New Zealand 5010, New Zealand

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Hook Hand Heart Star: Opening floor talk with Warwick Freeman being held?
  - **A:** Hook Hand Heart Star: Opening floor talk with Warwick Freeman takes place on Sat, 25 Jul, 2026 at 11:00 am to Sat, 25 Jul, 2026 at 12:00 pm at 45 Laings Road, Lower Hutt, New Zealand 5010, New Zealand.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Hook Hand Heart Star: Opening floor talk with Warwick Freeman?
  - **A:** Hook Hand Heart Star: Opening floor talk with Warwick Freeman is organized by The Dowse Art Museum.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** Hook Hand Heart Star: Opening floor talk with Warwick Freeman is ideal for art lovers, trade professionals, collectors, and exhibition enthusiasts exploring the latest in their field. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Lower Hutt, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Hook Hand Heart Star: Opening floor talk with Warwick Freeman sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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