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Archer, Florence, b. 1888

Florence Archer was one of the most accomplished potters of the second generation of the Harvey School. She studied pottery under Alice Bott for a ...

Boyd, Mary, b. 1926

A member of the well-known artistic Boyd family, Boyd started to paint and pot from an early age and despite an ongoing arts practice that ...

Boyd, Merric, b. 1888

Merric Boyd's organic decorative ceramics led him to be credited as the father of studio pottery in Australia. He was also a dominant figure in ...

Pate, Klytie, b. 1912

A potter and printmaker who was encouraged by her aunt, Christian Waller and uncle, Napier Waller, to pursue a career in art. In 1947, Pate, ...

Perceval, John, b. 1923

John Perceval had little formal training as an artist, but after he fell ill with polio at the age of 15 he concentrated on painting ...

Preston, Margaret, b. 1875

Margaret Preston specialised in still life subjects, seeking to reinvent the genre, with inspiration from Aboriginal art and Australian native flowers, but she also made ...

Pyke, Guelda Esther Leah, b. 1905

Australian ceramist, jewellery and fashion designer who, after visits to Bali and training with George Bell, took up painting in the 1950s and worked in ...

Hughan, Harold Randolph, b. 1893

Although Harold Hughan admired the genius of the Song and T’ang dynasty potters, his own practice as a studio potter was devoted to developing a ...

O'Reilly, Maud, b. 1886

Maud O'Reilly was one of L.J. Harvey's students who furthered her skills by studying wheelthrowing and glazing when she visited London in 1925. She made ...

Richardson, Maude Rose, b. 1879

Maude Rose Richardson was born in 1879. With her friends Alma Pericles and Mrs W. E. Stephenson, she formed the West Australian Women Painters and ...

Rushforth, Peter, b. 1920

Peter Rushforth's pots are a synthesis of European and Japanese aesthetic influences. He came to an appreciation of the Japanese Mingei (folk) aesthetic in unusual ...