Search results for the tag 'pottery'

Henning Rathjen: Victorian art potter 1948–1968

In the aftermath of World War II, many commercial potteries were established in Australia to satisfy the market disrupted by hostilities, particularly for Japanese and European imports. While some of these new commercial potteries were established by immigrants from war-ravaged Europe, Henning Alfred Rathjen (1...

Queensland 1859 Secession’ pottery medals

Glen went on to tell us, in a joking manner, that he had made these fake 1859 Secession Medals in 1977 for fun in the hope of making some money while he was a student working in the Visual Arts department at the Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education in
Toowoomba (now the University of Southern Queensla...

Victoria’s earliest potteries

Greg Hill’s new research, using contemporary newspapers and other resources now easily available on Trove, has found a raft of previously unknown potteries operating in Victoria in the 19th century. These push back the dates of Victorian pottery manufacture into the 1840s. Many examples of these wares however...

Mauchline Ware and Melbourne

Melbourne’s International Exhibition of 1880 was a huge event in its day, allowing Victoria to parade the colony’s achievements to the world. The magnificent building designed by Joseph Reed has hosted many important events for Victoria and Australia. Today, with the gardens, it is UNESCO listed as one of t...

A Cook discovery

Exactly 250 years ago, HMB Endeavour commanded by Lt James Cook was the first British ship to sight the east coast of Australia, then known as the Great South Land or Terra Australis Incognita. As one of the most important exploration milestones in Australia’s history, it now seems to be passing largely unnot...

Una Deerbon 1882–1972, Australian potter

Una Deerbon was a well-known maker of hand-built pottery, often with applied moulded decoration. When in her late 40s, she began making pottery in 1930. Just three years later she held three solo commercial exhibitions in Sydney and Melbourne, launching her on a successful career as a potter which lasted until ...

The founding years of Harvey School pottery 1916-1922: completing the story

Australiana is often defined by the combination of local materials, local motifs and local skills to create art that is distinctively and recognisably Australian. The Harvey School of pottery making, which flourished at the Central Technical College in Brisbane from 1916 for more than thirty years is one of the...

Australia's first art potters

Brothers Graham and William Ferry both trained as potters in Yorkshire, emigrated to Victoria and set up their own potteries in Melbourne’s Brunswick in the last two decades of the 19th century. Noted for their sculptural domestic wares and colourful majolica wares, here Greg Hill makes the case for recognisi...

Book Review: With Heart & Hand. Art Pottery in Queensland 1900-1950

With Heart & Hand: art pottery in Queensland 1900–1950. Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane, 2018. Standard edition $125, limited edition (with designer print)

Madame Bourdic's little plate

In the 19th century, many artists trained in Europe came to Australia, where the strange new land often impacted on how they saw the world and what they depicted. French china painter Madame Bourdic did not succumb to the Australian environment. She continued to paint china in the academic tradition she had lea...

Australiana Society gift to Sydney Jewish Museum

The Australiana Society committee recently voted to make financial grants of up to $5,000 to museums to acquire Australian-related material that they could not otherwise obtain. The Sydney Jewish Museum situated in Darlinghurst, Sydney and celebrating its 25th year in 2018, was the successful applicant for the ...

Book review: Glenda King, ‘Maude Poynter: painter and potter’

Glenda King, Maude Poynter: painter and potter. Tasmanian Chapter of the Australiana Society Inc., Hobart, 2018. Soft cover, 108 pages, plentiful colour and black and white illustrations. ISBN 978-0-646-98281- 6,

The Beleura collection of Klytie Pate pottery

Beleura, the house and garden on the Mornington Peninsula on the southern shore of Port Phillip Bay, is an estate left to the people of Victoria by John ‘Jack’ Morton Tallis (1911–1996), the youngest son of Sir George Tallis of J C Williamson theatres fame... Here was a mystery: how did John Tallis know K...

Going Back to (Harvey) School

I started at the Queensland Art Gallery as the first Curator of Decorative Arts in 1981 ‘wet behind my (curatorial) ears’. The first project I initiated, LJ Harvey & his School, opened in September 1983, following the relocation of the Gallery’s collection to its new building on the south bank of the Bris...

A chance beginning: the Lyons collection of decorative art

The Art Gallery of South Australia is showcasing for the first time over 50 examples of Australian decorative arts given to the Gallery by Adelaide psychiatrist Dr Robert Lyons, who had assembled one of the finest private collections of South Australian decorative arts.

A rare Feint format: "Shells" designed and painted 1947 for "Jo" Fakhry

This soft-paste porcelain mug, 8.7 cm high and 9 cm diameter, is painted in overglaze enamels on a Wedgwood “Barlaston” blank dated 1947. Feint’s choice of this Wedgwood form, together with the incorporation of the date 1947 and the letters J F as key elements in the design, suggests an awareness of the n...

The Fereday service

The Fereday service is a rare example of armorial porcelain tableware relating to colonial Australia, bearing the name, position and crest of the owner Dudley Fereday, first Sheriff of Van Diemen’s Land (1823–33) (plate 1). Although none of the surviving pieces bears a mark identifying the manufacturer, the...

Book review: Kevin Power, 'John Campbell Pottery'

Produced from its premises in Launceston, Tasmania, Campbell’s pottery products were shipped to shops and agents in Tasmania, mainland Australia, New Zealand and as far as India and the USA. Examples can be found regularly at antique shops and auction rooms throughout Australia. The vast majority of pieces av...

Book review: Elizabeth Ellis, 'The Sydney Punchbowl'

Hordern House commissioned Elizabeth Ellis OAM, the Emeritus Mitchell Librarian, to research the background to the Chinese export porcelain punchbowl in the Mitchell Library showing scenes of the colony about 1814.

Porcelain painting in the 1970s and 1980s

‘Lalla’: Alice Rochford Cayley and Jack Castle Harris, part 2

An 1865 watercolour of Fowler's Camperdown Pottery

Tasmania's Huon Pottery

The National Museum of Australian Pottery

A new catalogue of Remued Pottery

Rosedale, Lyndale, Roselyn and Superior Ceramics: the pottery of Worthington and Comber

Exhibition: Gumnuts and glazes: the story of Premier Pottery, Preston 1929-1956

Darbyshire pottery

Australian pottery exhibitions in Queensland

Australian Art Pottery 1900-1950

Neil Douglas and the Murrumbeena Pottery

William Holford's art and influence on Australian Pottery

Commercial art pottery in Western Australia 1920s-1960s

Industrial Art Pottery in Western Australia

Book review: The People's Potteries

Clay Heritage. The Lyons and Chamberlain Collections of Australian Ceramics

Diana Pottery's Musical Jugs And Mugs

From the Editor's Desk: early Australian Pottery

Book review: Geoff Ford, ’Australian Pottery: The First 100 Years'

A new museum for Australia - National Museum of Australian Pottery

Modern Ceramic Products

William Holford - North Shore Pioneer Potter

English Ceramics with an Australian Association

Book review: Noris Ioannou, ‘Ceramics In South Australia 1836-1986. From Folk to Studio Pottery’, Wakefield Press

The Caarnarvon Ceramic College

Art and Utility - Ceramics in South Australia 1836 - 1986

Book review: Geoff Ford, ‘19th Century South Australian Pottery’, Salt Glaze Press 1985

New books: Peter Timms, ‘Australian Studio Pottery and China Painting’, Oxford University Press

The Brian Everard Easterbrook Collection of Ceramics

History In Clay - Muriel MacDiarmid's Drinking Vessels