Leon Saper b. 1928

  • Artist (Ceramist)
Leon Saper became a member of Clifton Pugh's Dunmoochin Artists' Collective at Cottles Bridge. He took up pottery in 1970.
Tags: Dunmoochin Artists’ Collective

Leon Saper became a member of Clifton Pugh’s Dunmoochin Artists’ Collective at Cottles Bridge and bought a bush block there c1955.

Leon took up pottery in 1970, inspired by the community of potters who had come to live and work at Dunmoochin in the 1960s.

Saper made a living selling his striking colourful work on hessian bags at the St Andrews Market.
A retrospective exhibition of work collected by friends was held at the Nillumbik Council Offices in 2005..

His mark is an incised 'L. Saper’.

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Date written:
2022
Last updated:
2022