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Boyd, Merric, b. 1888
Merric Boyd's organic decorative ceramics led him to be credited as the father of studio pottery in Australia. He was also a dominant figure in ...
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Dunn, Phyl, b. 1915
Potter who, with Reg Preston, established a pottery studio at Warrandyte in 1947.
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 & ...
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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 ...
Hughan, Harold Randolph, b. 1893
Although Harold Hughan admired the genius of the Song and T’ang dynasty potters, his own practice as a studio potter was devoted to developing a ...
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Lowe, Allan
McSwain, Heather, b. 1921
Heather McSwain was a potter. She was aware of international trends and historic work but as an artist/designer-potter strove for individuality.
Memmott, Harry, b. 1921
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Moon, Milton, b. 1926
Milton Moon has been a key figure in developing close links between Japanese studio pottery and Australia. In 2012 he wrote: 'I remain concerned, if ...
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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 ...
O'Reilly, Maud, b. 1886
Maud O'Reilly was one of L.J. Harvey's students who furthered her skills by studying wheelthrowing and glazing when she visited London in 1925. She made ...
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Olsen, John, b. 1928
John Olsen's exuberant paintings, which were first exhibited in Sydney in the 1950s, are often celebrations of Sydney, Majorca, marine life, good food and sunshine. ...
Pate, Klytie, b. 1912
A potter and printmaker who was encouraged by her aunt, Christian Waller and uncle, Napier Waller, to pursue a career in art. In 1947, Pate, ...
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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 ...
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Preston, Margaret, b. 1875
Margaret Preston specialised in still life subjects, seeking to reinvent the genre, with inspiration from Aboriginal art and Australian native flowers, but she also made ...
Pryor, Aase, b. 1914
Aase Pryor was one of most significant of Milton Moon's pottery students in Brisbane and combined this skill with jewellery design and theatre work when ...
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Pyke, Guelda Esther Leah, b. 1905
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 ...
Richardson, Maude Rose, b. 1879
Maude Rose Richardson was born in 1879. With her friends Alma Pericles and Mrs W. E. Stephenson, she formed the West Australian Women Painters and ...
Rushworth, Peter, b. 1920