Ms Guelda Esther Leah Pyke b. 11 September 1905

  • Artist (Ceramist),
  • Designer (Jewellery Designer),
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Designer (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer)
Australian ceramist, jewellery and fashion designer who, after visits to Bali and training with George Bell, took up painting in the 1950s and worked in a boldly colourful modernist manner.
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Roles
  • Artist (Ceramist)
  • Designer (Jewellery Designer)
  • Artist (Painter)
  • Designer (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer)
  • Artist
Periods active
  • 1930 - 1980
Residences
  • 1939 Bali, Dutch East Indies
  • 28 January 1933 - January 1934 Hampstead, London, England, UK (with visits to Denmark and Scotland )
  • June 1954 - 14 July 1954 Bali, Dutch East Indies (with Yvonne Cohen)
  • 1961 - 1960 (Toured Greece, Iran, Pakistan, and India by caravan with Nancy Grant and Dorothy Braund)
  • 1965 Greece (with Dorothy Braund)
Trainings
  • Commercial art, c.1928 - c.1930 Swinburne Technical College, Melbourne, Vic.
  • 1946 - 1951 George Bell School, Melbourne, VIC
  • Painting, 1957 - c.1957 National Gallery School, Melbourne, Vic.
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