This review was written by Peter Gibbs and published in the Nelson Mail on 7 September 2011 Complete account of a potter who touched hundreds of lives. In 1973 I was a young maths teacher at Glenfield College in Auckland, moonlighting as a pottery night class teacher at Rangitoto College. My enthusiasm wasn’t quite matched […]
The Quarry Arts Centre based in Whangarei, Northland, New Zealand, was founded by Yvonne Rust, and is famous for its Summer Do. Whangarei’s Arts Resource Centre since 1980 The Quarry Arts Centre in Whangarei was begun against all odds, during the economic recession of 1980, by Yvonne Rust, QSM. At the time, New Zealand was […]
Listen to a radio interview with Theresa Sjoquist about Yvonne Rust, QSM, and the the writing of her biography, Yvonne Rust: Maverick Spirit. www.radionz.co.nz/audio/player/2492686
Beginning in August 2007, I started research for the biography, Yvonne Rust – Maverick Spirit. The completed work included the location and interview of 400 people, approximately 80 of them in depth. Yvonne’s great grandfather, John Stewart Rust, arrived in Whangarei when thirty-six houses constituted the township. His son, Gordon, Yvonne’s father, was a native schools headmaster. In 1928, when Yvonne was six, he […]
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