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Today in 2020 the ABC has 150 plus members covering New Zealand and overseas,Chapters around New Zealand are located in Northland, Warkworth,Auckland, Wairarapa, Wellington Christchurch,, Central Otago and Dunedin. with additional members from both the North Island and the South Island |
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From humble beginnings......the recollections of John SansomIn 1989 a small group of people met as a "bookbinding interest group!”, namely Pamela Robson, Jocelyn Windsor, Marthin Mare, Jack O’Brien, Peter Goodwin and John Sansom. Prior to this there was correspondence back and forth with Edgar Mansfield in the UK to establish if he knew of a bookbinders guild in New Zealand as Edgar, prior to moving back to the UK, had been an artist, sculptor and teacher at Fielding High School. Edgar of course later began a movement in Britain which heralded the renaissance in bookbinding. Edgar’s advice to me was “do your own thing and get on with forming our own guild”. This we did and from the 'Interest Group' the Association of Book Crafts (NZ) Inc. was finally formed. Marthin Mare was the first newsletter Editor and the first letter was produced in 1989. Those six original members are still active members today. Our letterhead and logo were designed for us by David Buck. Arthur W. Johnson, the author of several books, binder, calligrapher and teacher who later became our Patron and made a number of visits to New Zealand with his wife Pamela, an international tutor in lace making. They both fell in love with our country, especially the Catlins area. At the time we became an Incorporated Society we had 22 foundation members. |
Arthur W Johnson, ABC's one time patron and author of several books on binding. He presented ABC with some of his bound books, now in the Auckland Library |
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Executive committee President: Stuart Reader president@abc-nz.org.nz Vice President: Vacant vicepresident@abc-nz.org.nz Secretary: Terrie Reddish secretary@abc-nz.org.nz Treasurer: Chris Stewart treasurer@abc-nz.org.nz 2020-2021 Committee Karen Vidler Tom Bichler Jennifer Simpson Regional Representatives and local contacts
| Materials Supply Manager: Lynne Fryer, email: materials@abc-nz.org.nz Correspondence: Secretary - Communications Manager Terrie Reddish secretary@abc-nz.org.nz Membership Manager Stuart Reader memberships@abc-nz.org.nz Treasurer /Accounts Chris Stewart treasurer@abc-nz.org.nz Home Study, DVD and CD Libraries: Brendan Laing, email: brendan@abc-nz.org.nz Webmaster for all your stories, activities pics etc. |
Regional Representatives and local contacts Dargaville -- Maria Higginson Warkworth – Merryl Houghton Auckland – Lynne Fryer Bay of Plenty/ Rotorua - Robyn Hunt (contact only) Hawke's Bay - Julz Henderson (contact only) Wanganui - Di Harries (contact only) Wairarapa - Jill Rose (contact only) Wellington - Meredith Paterson Nelson/ Tasman - Rosie Ann Pinney (contact only) Christchurch - Liz Davidson (contact only) Southland – Sam Chandler (contact only) Central Otago - Robyn Van Reenan (contact only) Australia - Karen Vidler (on Executive) | 09 407-3233 027 213 8159 09 425-6722 027 249 8245 07 346-0478 022 307 9212 021 163 6955 0274 498 939 027 6499 926 03 548-3147 021 181 9275 021 1412 194 027 443 1812 0061 458572168 |