Mr Rick Rudd, MNZM, for services to ceramic art
Rick Rudd has been creating ceramic artwork for 45 years and has exhibited widely. He established the Rick Rudd Foundation to provide a public amenity in the ownership, curation and exhibition of the Rick Rudd Collection, and the education of studio potters. He personally funded the establishment of Quartz Museum of Studio Ceramics in Whanganui and now runs the free museum with little assistance and outside funding. He donated his collection of ceramics and the building that houses them. Mr Rudd was President of the New Zealand Society of Potters and the Auckland Studio Potters Society and a member of the Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare o Rehua Trust Board.