Urban Designer - Vernacular Architect - Maritime Planner - Owner-Builder - Servant of Piglet - Educator - Author - Revolutionary - Peacenik - Tour Guide 

Tony Watkins

 ~ Vernacular Design 

The Coromandel Group
2012 Hauraki House Print E-mail

ImageAs was the custom the opening of the 25th anniversary Coromandel Group exhibitio, on Saturday 31 March, the week before Easter, was followed by a pot luck dinner at Tom and Wailin's.

 

 

 

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2010 Hauraki House Print E-mail

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Eric's sculpture in the Sanctuary
We all gathered once again at Hauraki House for the opening of the annual Easter Exhibition. Wailin then hosted another wonderful pot-luck dinner, and on the Sunday took us for a tour of the Sanctuary.

 

 

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2009 Hauraki House Print E-mail

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2008 Hauraki House Print E-mail
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Deirdre Airey Retrospective 2004 Print E-mail

Image"Deirdre never parked her car. She just abandoned it." She was the doctor in Coromandel for many years. In those days Coromandel still boasted a thriving friendly hospital.

 

 

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2006 Hauraki House Print E-mail
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2005 Hauraki House Print E-mail
ImageIn 2005 the traditional opening was followed by the traditional pot luck dinner.
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Ikon Exhibition Print E-mail

ImageEugene O'Sullivan had been very sick and went down to coromandel to recuperate. He was erudite, intelligent, and good company. Before long he knew every potter and every artist in the Coromandels.

After six months he returned to Auckland. He came back with an idea.

He would have an exhibition to display the work of all his friends.

No one else was crazy enough so Joe Farrant, a group of students and I took up the challenge of designing and building the exhibition.

 

 

 

 

 

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