Jeffery Wilkinson b. 1921

  • Artist
While Wilkinson is best known as a potter and teacher at Melbourne Technical College, he also worked in metal sculpture and designed timber furniture in an Arts and Crafts style. Employed as an Official War Artist in the 1939-45 War, his work was included in the 1956 Olympic Games Arts Festival.
exhibited at
Jeffrey Wilkinson: Untitled
Date
19 October 2013 - 19 December 2013
Place
The Gallery @ BACC, cnr Carpenter and Wilson Streets Brighton VIC 3186, Australia
Description

A major retrospective exhibition of works by the Melbourne sculptor and ceramicist.

exhibited at
1956 Olympic Arts Festival
Date
1956
Place
Melbourne, Vic
Description

Olympic Arts Festival 1956 – Melbourne’s Cultural Olympiad.
Architecture & sculpture – Uni of Melb. Painting & Drawing – NGV, Literature – Melb Public Library. Graphics, Ind Design, Ceramics – Royal Melb Tech College, Aboriginal art – National Museum.

- Neville Bunning, Mollie Douglas, Dyson Studio Pottery, Ivan Englund, Pamela Hallandal, Harold Hughan, Graham Jones, Eileen Keys, John A. Barnard Knight, Henri Le Grand, Allan Lowe, Marguerite Mahood, Martin Boyd, Ivan McMeekin, Klytie Pate, Reg Preston, Peter Rushforth, Edward Shaw, Dorothy Sutherland, Jeffery Wilkinson

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Melbourne Olympics 1956, Industrial DesignCraft, Textile, Aboriginal Art, Sculpture, Olympic Arts Festival 1956, Melbourne’s Cultural Olympiad