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John Teschendorff was born in Melbourne in 1942 and moved to Perth in 1985.
He studied at the Caulfield Institute of Technology (now Monash University),
the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and the Royal College of Art London.
He has held solo exhibitions in Melbourne, Sydney, Newcastle (NSW) and Oxford (UK)
This is his first solo exhibition in Perth. He has participated in numerous national
and international group exhibitions; representing Australia at the 36th Concorso
Internazionale della Ceramic DíArte, Faenza, Italy (1978) and in
Contemporary Australian Ceramics at the Smithsonian Institute, Washington USA (1981).
In 1995 he was selected for Australian Ceramics 1830-1995 a major survey exhibition
presented at the Museo Internazionale della Ceramiche, Faenza Italy.
Since the early 1980’s Teschendorff has been working with constructed forms and works
on paper whilst holding a number of senior academic appointments in Melbourne (Melbourne State College),
Perth (Curtin University) and Kuala Lumpur (Malaysian Institute of Art & Limkokwing Institute of Technology).
His work is represented in major Australian and international public collections.
John Teschendorff currently lives and works in Fremantle.
2021

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2021