Peter Rushforth (1920- ) was born in Manly, NSW. After serving in the war, he began training as a potter in 1946 at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and continued his studies at the National Gallery School in Melbourne and then at the National Art School in Sydney.
In 1951, he set up a studio at Beecroft, NSW. and took up an appointment at the National Art School, where he went on to become Head of the Ceramic Department. He travelled extensively in the UK, Denmark and the USA on a Churchill Fellowship and has spent time working in Japan. In 1966, he moved to Church Point, NSW, and in 1978 to Shipley in the Blue Mountains. Since 1978, when he retired from teaching, he has worked full-time as a potter. He produces high-fired stoneware vessels in a woodfired kiln with chun, tenmoku, limestone and ash glazes, and wax resist, brush or inlay decoration. In 1985, he was awarded the Order of Australia for his services to ceramics and, in that year, the National Gallery of Victoria held a retrospective exhibition of his work, which is marked with an impressed or incised 'PR’.
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- Date written:
- 2013
- Last updated:
- 2013
