The People

Penny Eames JP, MA (Applied)

Penny Eames has been involved in setting up programmes in the arts and education, particularly for people on the margins of society for several decades. Until November 2004 she was Executive Director of Arts Access Aotearoa an organisation she set up in 1995.

She has also worked with the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council of New Zealand, New Zealand Workers Educational Association, and as a Supervisor for the Playcentre Federation in Lower Hutt. She is also a Justice of the Peace and Marriage Celebrant.

Her specialist skill has been her ability to work with communities, hospitals, prisons, territorial local authorities and government departments as they plan programmes that celebrate cultural diversity and encourage social inclusion.

She has an extensive publishing record which includes publications in a wide range of subjects, including: Arts Solutions (2004), Creative Business for people on the margins (2004) Creative Solutions and Social Inclusion - Culture and the Community (2003), Arts Solutions for Social Problems (1996 reprinted four times), The Art and Health Partnership (1999 reprinted 2003) and Expressions of Freedom and Fantasy art in prisons and the justice sector (2001) and she assisted in the writing of a publication on Cultural Diversity, The Arts and New Zealanders (2002). She has also written books on Fund Raising.

See detail in the publications page of this website.

Her public speaking record has included keynote speeches and presentations at international forums and conferences in USA, India, England, Australia, Germany, New Zealand and Sri Lanka.

Ms Eames is also known both in New Zealand and internationally for her strategic thinking and the original way she encourages group planning. Her methods enable decision makers to plan and develop healthy environments where physical, intellectual, emotional, spiritual and cultural well-being are recognised and celebrated.

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Hubert Eames, BA (Hon) Psychology

Hubert provides back up and intellectual support to the consultancy. His experience includes working as an industrial psychologist for people experiencing work transitions, including people with physical and psychiatric disabilities. Hubert plays the cello in the Hutt Valley Concert Orchestra and is an accomplished watercolour painter and cartoonist.

Alistair Eames

Advanced Diploma in Photography, Massey University, Wellington Polytechnic, Professional Certificate in Photographic Design. He provides professional photographic backup to the consultancy.