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Tuckson, Margaret, b. 1921
Tuckson was a potter working first in low-fired earthenware. She expanded her interest to Papua New Guinea ceramic traditions publishing "The Traditional Pottery of Papau ...
Warren, Joy, b. 1921
Ceramicist who founded the 'Craft Australia' journal in 1969, and was its editor and producer until 1975.
Sheen, Margaret Burgess, b. 1922
Potter, teacher and craftsman supplier. Her students included Joan Campbell, Robert Bell, Ray Sampson, Joan Piggford and the first teachers of pottery for high schools ...
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Boyd, Guy, b. 1923
Guy Boyd was the sculptor of the Boyd family, taking a different direction from his brothers and parents. His humanist vision is evident in all ...
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Perceval, John, b. 1923
John Perceval had little formal training as an artist, but after he fell ill with polio at the age of 15 he concentrated on painting ...
Havekes, Gerardus Wilhelmus Hendricus, b. 1925
Havekes appears to be a self-taught artist. He was active in ceramics, painting, sculpture, sculpture and tapestry. He later studied ceramics at East Sydney Technical ...
McConnell, Carl, b. 1926
Chicago born Carl McConnell became the most significant potter in post World War II Brisbane as he introduced porcelain and stone firing techniques to Brisbane. ...
Laycock, Peter , b. 1927
Smith, David, b. 1927
David Smith is largely remembered in Brisbane as a teacher at the Central Technical College although the pottery pieces he produced are neatly and precisely ...
Travis, Peter, b. 1927
Travis is a noted colour consultant, kite-maker, ceramic artist and designer. Travis was hired by Alistair McCrea to revolutionise Speedo's range of men's leisurewear, now ...
Livesey, Alice Mary, b. 1928
Alice Mary Livesey was born in 1928. Sh was a china painter, potter, watercolorist, printmaker and teacher. She exhibited with the Western Australian Women's Society ...
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Mora, Mirka Madeleine, b. 1928
Mirka Mora’s joyeous experimental art gave a bohemian flavour to Melbourne life, both with her former husband, the resistance fighter and restaurateur Georges, and then ...
Chapman, Vic, b. 1932
Ceramicist born 14th March 1932 on Currawillinghi Station Qld. Chapman's earthenware slip cast pieces are painted with the Dreaming stories of the Yuwaalaraay people of ...
Leckie, Alexander, b. 1932
Alexander Leckie, an adventurous Scot with a modernist sensibility, was one of the generation of studio potters responsible for establishing Australia's post war culture of ...
Mansfield, Janet, b. 1934
As a speaker, writer, publisher, juror and convenor, Janet Mansfield put Australian ceramics on the international stage. Her magazine "Ceramics: Art and Perception" set a ...
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Hanssen Pigott, Gwyn, b. 1935
Gwyn Hanssen Pigott was one of Australia's most distinguished potters whose career extended over more than five decades in Australia, England and France. She has ...
Rogers, Ray, b. 1935
Ray Rogers made a significant contribution to the ceramics medium in both New Zealand and Australia and was especially noted for introducing the pit-firing technique ...
Flood, Noel, b. 1936
Flood trained as a potter and artist, worked with Alan Caiger-Smith UK, Royal Delft Pottery, Netherlands c 1962, and in Australia with David Boyd & ...
Wordsworth, Donald, b. 1938
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Whiteley, Brett, b. 1939
Brett Whiteley was the first Australian to combine a pop star's persona with that of a visual artist. He worked across the mediums of painting, ...