| 1935 |
Born Ballarat , Victoria |
| 1954 |
Bachelor of Arts (Fine Arts) University of Melbourne |
| 1955-60 |
Trained with Ivan McMeekin, Sturt Pottery, Mittagong & with Ray Finch, Bernard Leach & Michael Cardew, UK |
| 1960 |
Established studio, Notting Hill, London , UK |
| 1963 |
Elected Fellow, Society of Designer Craftsmen, UK |
| 1965 |
Research Fellow, Dept. of Industrial Arts UNSW, Sydney |
| 1966-73 |
Established pottery at Acheres, near Bourges , France |
| 1975-80 |
Established workshop, Tasmania . Crafts Board funded |
| 1981-88 |
Potter-in-Residence, QUT, Brisbane |
| 1989 |
Artist-in-Residence, Fremantle Art Centre, VACB funded |
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Established studio at Netherdale, Central Queensland |
| 1992 |
Residency, School of Mines and Industries, Ballarat |
| 1994 |
Arts Queensland Creative Development Grant |
| 1997 |
Australia Council Emeritus Award |
| 1998 |
Commission: Neville Bonner Building , William St , Brisbane |
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Australia Council Fellowship Award |
| 2000 |
Established studio at Ipswich , South east Queensland |
Selected Solo Exhibitions |
| 1990/91 |
Narek Gallery, Tharwa, ACT |
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Margaret Francey Gallery, Brisbane |
| 1991/93/95 |
PRO-ART, St. Louis , USA |
| 1992 |
Galerie Besson, London , UK |
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Ballarat Fine Art Gallery , Victoria |
| 1993 |
Crafthouse Gallery, CCBC, Vancouver , Canada |
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Garth Clark Gallery , New York , USA |
| 1995 |
Christine Abrahams Gallery , Melbourne |
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Rex Irwin, Sydney |
| 1996 |
Gwyn Hanssen Pigott: A Twenty Year Survey , Queensland Art Gallery |
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Garth Clark Gallery , New York |
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Small Works, Narek Galleries, Canberra |
| 1997 |
Gwyn Hanssen Pigott: Bowls and Still Lifes, Craftwest Gallery, Perth |
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Galerie B15, Munich , Germany |
| 1998 |
Christine Abrahams Gallery , Melbourne |
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Rex Irwin, Sydney |
| 1999 |
Garth Clark Gallery , New York , USA |
| 2000 |
Galerie Besson, London , UK |
| 2001 |
Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane |
| 2003 |
Garth Clark Gallery , New York , USA |
Selected Group Exhibitions |
| 1990,91,92 |
Chicago International New Art Forms Exposition (CINAFE) , Narek Gallery, Chicago , USA |
| 1990 |
La Borne en Feu , La Borne, France |
| 1991 |
Une Passion pour la Ceramique , La Collection Fina Gomez, Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris |
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Asia Pacific Crafts Exhibition , Kyoto , Japan |
| 1992 |
Australia : New Design Visions , 2nd Australian International Crafts Triennial, AGWA |
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Le Bol , Galerie Leonelli, Lausanne , Switzerland |
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The Ceramic Still Life , Garth Clark Gallery , New York |
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VicHealth National Craft Award , NGV, Melbourne |
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Commonwealth Bank National Ceramic Award Exhibition , Canberra School of Art Gallery , Canberra |
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Jahresmesse Kunsthandwerk , Hamburg , Applied Art Museum |
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6th National Ceramics Exhibition , Thailand |
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Sturt Potters , NSW Government Exhibition, Tokyo |
| 1993 |
Woodfired Ceramics , Studio 20 Galley, Blackwood, SA |
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Delegates Exhibition , 7th National Ceramics Conference University of SA |
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The Raw and the Cooked , Barbican Art Gallery , London |
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Confrontations , Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney |
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48th International Ceramic Art , Faenza , Italy |
| 1992,93,95 |
Fletcher Challenge Ceramics Award Exhibition , Auckland , New Zealand |
| 1994 |
The Art of the Object , Craft Australia touring exhibition, Uruguay , Brazil & Chile |
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The Private Collection: Aspects of the Leach-Hamada tradition in Australia , Craft Victoria Gallery , Melbourne |
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The bowled and the beautiful , The Door Exhibition Space, Fremantle |
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SOFA , Narek Gallery, Chicago , USA |
| 1994-95 |
Sydney Myer Fund Acquisition Award , Shepparton Art Gallery |
| 1995 |
Aspects of Minimalism, Garth Clark Gallery , New York |
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VicHealth National Craft Award 1995 , NGV, Melbourne |
| 1996 |
Australian Wood-Fire Survey , Strathnairn Ceramics Association and Vessel: Contemporary Australian Ceramics , CSA Gallery, both in conjunction with the 8th National Ceramics Conference: International Connections , Canberra |
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Aurora , Australian wood, metal, glass, fibre & ceramics RMIT, Melbourne & Seoul Arts Centre, Korea |
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Objects of Ideas , Ten Approaches to Contemporary Craft Practice, touring exhibition by Queensland Regional Galleries |
| 1997 |
International Ceramic Art , Faenza , Italy |
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Australische Keramik , Galerie Handwerk, Munich , Craft Australia project, touring to Kunstgewerbemeuseum, Dresden |
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The Somatic Object , Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney |
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Sydney Myer Fund Acquisition Award , Shepparton Art Gallery |
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Containment , Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart and touring Tasmania & Victoria |
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Still-Life Still Lives , Art Gallery of SA (Still Lifes from the AGSA collection) |
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Material Perfection: Minimal Art and its Aftermath, A Selection from the Stokes Collection , Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery , UWA |
| 1998 |
A View of Clay , Contemporary Applied Arts, London , UK |
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The Contemporary Teapot , Keramikmusset Grimmerhus, Middelfart , Denmark |
| 1998-99 |
The Ceramic Still Life , Dowse Art Museum & Auckland Art Museum , New Zealand |
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10th Anniversary Exhibition, Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery , NSW |
| 1999 |
(Un)Limited: Repetition and Change in International Craft , UK Crafts Council, London |
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Artisti del Mondo (Artists of the World), Museo Internationale delle Ceramiche, Faenza , Italy |
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Contemporary Australian Craft , Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art , Japan |
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Commemorative Mugs for the Millennium , Gallerie Besson, London , UK |
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Contemporary Ceramics in Georgia Collections , Macon , Georgia , USA |
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New works in Clay , Dolphin Gallery , Kansas City, USA |
| 2000 |
Colour & Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics , LA County Museum of Art, California , USA |
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Return of Beauty , Jam Factory Gallery, Adelaide & Object Gallery, Sydney |
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8. Craft from Scratch , Frankfurt Triennale, Germany, JamFactory Contemporary Craft and Design, Adelaide & Object Gallery, Sydney |
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12 th Biennale of Sydney , Art Gallery of New South Wales , Sydney |
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A Decade of Collecting Australian decorative arts and design , Powerhouse Museum , Sydney |
Selected Public and Private Collections |
AUSTRALIA -
National Gallery of Australia
All Australian State Galleries
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
New Parliament House, Canberra
Brisbane Civic Art Gallery & Museum
Banyule Art Collection, Victoria
Regional Galleries in Australia: Newcastle, Ballarat, Castlemaine, Launceston, Geelong, Gippsland, Shepparton, Stanthorpe, Townsville, Gold Coast, Devonport, Bendigo, Orange, Bathurst, Darwin, Gladstone, Cairns; Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, University of NSW, Tasmanian School of Art at Hobart.
INTERNATIONAL -
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Crafts Council of Great Britain, London
Fina Gomez Collection, Paris
Holburne Museum and Crafts Study Centre, Bath, UK
Belfast Museum, Northern Ireland
Henry Rothschild Collection, Cambridge, UK
Boijmans Museum, Rotterdam, Holland
Dr. Hans Thiemann Collection, Hamburg Germany
Winnipeg Museum, Canada
Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Shigaraki, Japan
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA
Auckland Museum, New Zealand
Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, Wisconsin, USA
Jack Lenor Larsen Collection, USA
Regional Galleries, UK. Bristol, Maidstone, Manchester, Paisley
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