TAIRAWHITI MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011 CONTENTS From the Chairman...................................................................……..2
Current Board of Trustees……………………………………………….4
Director's Review of the Year.............................................................5
Statement of Financial Performance...............................................12
Statement of Financial Position ......................................................14
Notes to the Financial Statements ..................................................15
Audit Report .....................................................................................17
Cover Photograph: Tokomaru Bay c.1965 Miller Collection A photograph set up by a professional photographer. This photograph shows Tom Edge’s store (which was previously Oates Brothers’), Chemist Shop, the garage and the fish shop to the left of the store.
BOARD MEMBERS POSITION APPOINTED BY
Dr Apirana Mahuika Chairman Ngati Porou
Victor Walker Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti
Allan de Lautour Treasurer Gisborne District Council
Keri Kaa Gisborne District Council
Michael Muir Deputy Chairperson Friends of the Museum
Norman Maclean Friends of the Museum
Ingrid Searancke Friends of the Museum
Richard Brooking Friends of the Museum
Pene Brown Te Aitanga-a-Mahaki
Steve Gibbs Ngai Tamanuhiri
Hineiromia Whaanga Rongowhakaata
Note: During this year Victor Walker replaced Anne McGuire as Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti representative and Pene Brown replaced Tawera Tahuri as Te Aitanga-a-Mahaki representative.
MUSEUM STAFF
Director Dr David Butts
Administration Officer Leanne Rattray
Exhibitions Curator Jolene Douglas
Archivist/Kaitiaki Māori Jody Wyllie
Curator of Photography/Technician Dudley Meadows
Collection Manager Ann Milton-Tee
Aaron Compton Museum Teacher
Jennifer Pewhairangi Museum Teacher (Te Reo Māori)
Jonty Hall Fabricator/Maintenance Officer
Fiona Challies Receptionist
Christine Page Weekend Receptionist
Anna Cirolli Weekend Receptionist
Marija Cooper Weekend Receptionist
Director’s Review of the Year Tairāwhiti Museum has continued to offer local communities and visitors to the region a diverse
programme of long and short term art, history and science exhibitions. The Museum Education
Programme services thousands of children in the region every year.
1. Introduction
1.1 This report reviews the Museum’s progress for the 2010-11 financial year and evaluates
performance against the KPI’s set out in the Annual Plan 2010-11.
1.2 The Museum has met all of its key performance targets for 2010-11 .To meet these key
performance targets the Museum has:
(a) met all of the targets for the first year of LEOTC Contract 2010-13 with the Ministry of
Education;
(b) exhibited an innovative and diverse programme of art exhibitions;
(c) maintained and developed the museum collections;
(d) made the museum collections accessible to a wide range of individuals and communities;
(e) developed a strategic plan to address limited exhibition, storage and workshop space;
(f) continued working with Nga Taonga a Nga Tama Toa Trust and GDC to develop a new
facility for the C Company (28 Maori Battalion) Price of Citizenship exhibition;
(g) continued to strengthen the Museum’s revenue generating capacity.
1.3 Ann McGuire, Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti representative, resigned from the museum trust board
this year after more than a decade of service to the museum. Mrs McGuire made a significant
contribution to the development of the relationship between the museum and Te Aitanga-a-
Hauiti leading to a number of important exhibition projects both at the museum and at
Tolaga Bay. She also contributed to the development of important policies and practices
relating to care and use of taonga Māori within the museum.
1.4 The museum has developed a long term facility development strategy, including the building
of additional storage and exhibition space on the current museum site. Surveying and
geotech testing has been undertaken. It is anticipated that resource consent will be sought to
build the first extension to the museum facility during the 2011-12 year.
1.5 This year the museum added 266 items to the collection, including 8 taonga Māori, 36 art
works, 45 archival items, 12 photograph collections, and 165 historical items.
1.6 The museum continues to take an active role in facilitating the Tairāwhiti Marae
Conservation Project in partnership with Te Puni Kōkiri and Tairāwhiti Iwi. The Project
Working Group initiated a pilot project to undertake a conservation survey of marae
buildings in the Wiwi Nati Cluster in the Waiapu area. A preliminary report has now been
received from the Historic Places Trust Buildings Conservator and a report will now be
commissioned from a conservation architect.
2. Funding
2.1 The Tairāwhiti Museum Trust Board continues to focus on generating increased operational
funding. The GDC funding to the museum for 2010-11 of $635,346 represented 71.7% of
the total income of $886,404.
2.2 The annual income from the Ministry of Education contract for the Museum Education
Service was $164,684 (18.6% of budget). The museum’s shop sales, entry fees, exhibition
income, donations, photographic sales and café lease generated $47,678 of income.
2.3 The museum finished the 2010-11 year with an audited surplus of $60,031.
Note: The museum has exercised considerable restraint with expenditure this year in the
knowledge that there will be additional expenditure required in 2011-12 for the proposed
building projects. Capitalised assets including collection acquisitions and equipment are paid
for from this surplus.
2.4 External grants, totalling $34,229 were secured for the following projects:
Iwi Karioi HakaNation Exhibition: Te Puni Kōkiri, Clarke Trust, Matatini Society
Taonga Conservation Project: Te Puni Kōkiri
Surveying and Geotech Testing: Marjorie Redstone Trust, Dr Jack Richards
2.5 The audited accounts for Tairāwhiti Museum for 2010-11 are attached to the end of this
Report.
3. Collections
3.1 The museum’s collections continue to be maintained at a high standard, within the space
constraints of the current museum facility. Planning for the redevelopment of storage,
loading bay, work and administration spaces continued through the year. Site surveying and
geotech testing have been undertaken and the geotech report is due.
3.2 The museum’s collections continue to develop although the museum has taken a much more
selective approach to new gifted acquisitions in recent years. Loans are only accepted into
the collection when they are items of considerable cultural or scientific significance and they
either require the standard of care the museum can provide to ensure their long term
maintenance or in order to make them accessible for the museum’s education and exhibition
programmes. The museum also deaccessioned a number of items that it was no longer
appropriate to keep in the collection. This programme of collection rationalisation is
ongoing.
3.3 The following temporary exhibitions used items from the museum’s collections in this
financial year: Tairāwhiti Landscapes, The Written Word: Nigel Brown Paintings, Iwirakau,
HakaNation, Jewellery and Silver, Scene in Tokomaru Bay, Norman Scott.
3.4 Each year the museum endeavours to improve the documentation of part of the permanent
collection. In recent years attention has focused on the taonga Māori collection and the
museum’s collection of dresses. This year the museum commissioned Mrs Margaret Wirepa,
local gemologist, to document the museum’s jewellery collection. Following the completion
of this work a selection of jewellery items was shown in the Concourse Gallery.
3.5 Increasing use is being made of the museum’s collection of historical photographs. This year
Dudley Meadows, the museum’s Curator of Photography, selected a range of images of
Tokomaru Bay for an exhibition that was shown both at the museum and at Tokomaru Bay.
The public response to this exhibition was very positive and visitors were able to provide
additional information about the images for the museum’s records.
4. Education Service
4.1 The Museum Education Programme offers a museum and place-based education programme
funded by a contract with the Ministry of Education. The programme is based in the
Discovery Gallery and Lysnar House is used when additional space is required. The
programme is supported by an Advisory Group of local school principals and teachers.
4.2 The first year of the LEOTC contract for 2010-13 with the Ministry of Education is
complete. The museum has recently been advised that this contract is to be extended to June
30, 2014.
4.3 The Museum Education Programme delivers programmes in three modes: Museum Based,
Outreach and Wānanga. The total number of students attending Museum Education Service
programmes this year was 11,064. The contract target was 8,600.
4.4 Aaron Compton was appointed to replace Senior Teacher Mrs Gayle Te Kani. Jennifer
Pewhairangi continued in her role as Education Officer (Te Reo Māori). Teachers using the
Museum Education Programme continue to rate the teachers’ performance very highly.
4.5 The Body in Action touring interactive exhibition was very popular with schools. This attests
to the importance of the museum being able to bring a major interactive exhibition to
Gisborne each year. Many children visited the exhibition in the weekend with their parents
after having been to the exhibition during the week with their school class.
4.6 The Museum Education Programme continues to make regular use of the Watersheds: Ngā
Waipupū exhibition (an overview of Tairāwhiti history), Te Moana (Tairāwhiti maritime
history) and the Star of Canada. The C Company 28th Māori Battalion Price of Citizenship
exhibition is also a focus for many lessons. The changing programme of art exhibitions
provides important resource material for the art lessons provided by the Education
Programme. This year the museum hired the Star Lab from Te Manawa in Palmerston North,
as a focus for the celebration of Matatini, for the Education Programme. School bookings for
this exhibition were very heavy and it was very well received.
4.7 The museum and art gallery collections are readily accessible to the Education Programme
and museum staff facilitate this access at the request of the teachers. These collections are an
important resource for the Education Programme and provide access to taonga Māori,
historic objects and art works of all media that are not available to teachers in the school
environment. Of particular interest is the growing use of the clothing collection for secondary
school classes.
4.8 The Education Programme continues to provide outreach services to schools in small
communities on the East Coast and in Wairoa. Travel costs make access to the museum
resources difficult for these schools. The outreach service ensures that items from the
museum’s collections can be made accessible to the students in these schools and that they
are used to emphasise aspects of local history.
5. Art Gallery Exhibitions
5.1 The museum had a very successful programme of exhibitions in 2010-11. Twenty
exhibitions were displayed in the temporary exhibition galleries during this year.
Art Gallery Exhibitions 2010-11:
Power Dressing Chinese and Korean Robes – Richards Collection
Tairāwhiti Landscapes From Tairāwhiti Museum painting collection
Nigel Brown Paintings from Museum collection and on loan
Body in Action Science interactive exhibition
Jack Straker and Romilly Brown Painting and sculptures
The Art of John Hovell Painting retrospective
Ocean and Fire Paintings/Pots by Juliet Bowen and Anna Cirolli
Rockers and Rollers Prints from Aratoi Museum Collection
Toihoukura Annual Student Exhibition
Iwi Karioi HakaNation National Te Matatini Festival Exhibition
Tangata Whenua Paintings and drawings by Rongo Tuhura
Guatemalan Textiles Textiles from the Richards Collection
Legacy: Royal Portraits Paintings from Government House, Wellington
A Story of Quilting Bi-annual exhibition of Gisborne Quilters Group
Jewellery and Silver From Tairāwhiti Museum collection
The Labours of Herakles Prints by Marion Maguire
Scene in Tokomaru Bay Historical photographs
Annual Exhibition Gisborne Artists and Potters Societies
Norman Scott Paintings from Tairāwhiti Museum Collection
Project #12 Paintings by Rowan Belcher, Gisborne
5.2 Each year the museum endeavours to provide a programme of exhibitions by local
artists, touring exhibitions and exhibitions of art works borrowed from other institutions,
trusts and private collectors. Exhibitions are also created from the museum’s own art and
history collections. This year the touring exhibitions included Rockers and Rollers, an
exhibition of prints from Aratoi Museum of Art and History, The Labours of Herakles,
an exhibition of prints by Marion Maguire, and Legacy: Royal Portraits, paintings from
Government House, Wellington, toured by the National Portrait Gallery.
5.3 This year there were several exhibitions with local connections that were of particular
interest. The Art of John Hovell was a major retrospective exhibition, organised by the
museum, for an artist who is increasingly recognised as one of the major figures of the
contemporary Māori art movement. This exhibition provided an opportunity to celebrate
the full range his work. John Hovell is renowned for his innovative kōwhaiwhai designs
in wharenui and wharekai in Tairāwhiti and beyond. He very generously gifted four of
his paintings to the museum fine art collection at the end of the exhibition thus filling
what had been a significant gap in the museum’s collection.
5.4 The Norman Scott exhibition focused on a significant local artist whose work is
receiving renewed interest at the present time. After military service during the Second
World War, Norman Scott studied at the Slade School of Art in London before returning
to Gisborne where he worked as an artist until his death in 1978. He is best remembered
for his oil paintings, although he was also an accomplished watercolour painter and
sculptor. The museum has a number of his works in the collection including a
representational image of Mount Hikurangi and a number of abstracted local landscapes.
5.5 The museum’s art galleries provide an opportunity for local artists and art collectives to
share their work with the local community and visitors to the region. It is notable that
this year there was a diverse range of work by local artists, from the abstract paintings
and installations by Rowan Belcher and the strange figures created Jack Straker and
Romilly Brown, to the landscapes and ceramics exhibited by Juliet Bowen and Anna
Cirolli. Rongo Tuhura’s paintings and drawings also made a strong statement about
whakapapa (geneology) and whenua (land). Exhibitions by the Artists Society, the
Potters Society and the Quilters Group confirmed the growing strength of these
collectives.
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