Josephine Hughes

An award-winning exhibition designer, Josephine is best known for her dramatic displays of Decorative Arts. Her credits include Fashion on Wheels: The New Zealand Gown of the Year, Black Dress White Vase: A Surrealist Tableau (DINZ Gold Best Award 2007), and The Miniatures: An Adventure in the Bren Collection (DINZ Gold Best Award 2010; Museums Aotearoa Innovation Award 2010.

In 2009 she travelled to the UK as the 2009 recipient of  the Clark Collection/Creative New Zealand Scholarship. She attended the prestigious Attingham Trust Summer School for the study of English Country Houses, their architecture, furnishings, collections and landscape setting. The scholarship also provided for brief internships with The National Trust, English Heritage, Historic Royal Palaces and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

She likes hedges and poodles and lives in Napier.

Wineboxes 2010, 2011.