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Dowse Art Museum's Pakohe exhibition, 1985–86

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Dowse Art Museum's Pakohe exhibition, 1985–86

Under the directorship of James Mack (1981–88) the Dowse Art Museum in Lower Hutt championed New Zealand craft and repositioned the gallery as a repository of decorative rather than fine arts. The Pakohe exhibition of 1985 and 1986 celebrated, in the parlance of the day, master craftsmen working in stone. 

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: Eph-D-ARTS-1985-01

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Douglas Lloyd Jenkins and Lucy Hammonds, Crafts and applied arts – New developments, 1980s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/ephemera/45317/dowse-art-museums-pakohe-exhibition-1985-86 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Douglas Lloyd Jenkins and Lucy Hammonds, published 16 May 2014.