Ms Anneke Borren, MNZM, of Porirua, for services to ceramic art
Anneke Borren’s established Chez-Moi Ceramics in 1969. She was Wellington Delegate, Vice President and President of the New Zealand Society of Potters.
She was a Pottery Lecturer at Whitirea Polytechnic and a member of the Council of New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts. Her work appears in collections nationally and internationally.
She was a sculptor with Wellington’s bi-annual Tareitanga stone symposium. She was commissioned by the Ministry of Works to produce ceramic furnishings for the then newly designed ‘Beehive’.
She participates in the Kapiti and Porirua City Arts Trails and mentored at Driving Creek Pottery in the Coromandel. Ms Borren is a Life Member of Ceramics New Zealand.