Helen Schamroth
Helena Jeannette Schamroth ONZM is a Polish-New Zealand craft artist and author.
Biography
Born in Kraków just after World War II to two Jewish Holocaust survivors,[1] but her milliner grandmother and shoemaker grandfather did not survive.[2] The family emigrated to Australia and later moved to North Shore, Auckland, New Zealand. She served on the CreativeNZ Arts Board from 2000 to 2006.[3][4] In the 2005 Queen's Birthday Honours she was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the arts.[5]
Art
Schamroth makes textile arts, exhibiting primarily in Australia and New Zealand.[4] In 2010 she was selected for the 13th International Triennial of Tapestry at the Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź, Poland.[1]
100 New Zealand Craft Artists
A commission by Godwit Press led to 100 New Zealand Craft Artists which won the Illustrative Arts Award and the E.H. McCormick Best First Book Award for Non-Fiction at the NZ Post book awards.[6][7][8][9] Among the artists included in this work are Raewyn Atkinson, Kobi Bosshard, Barry Brickell, Freda Brierley, Len Castle, Jens Hansen, Manos Nathan and Diggeress Te Kanawa.[10]
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