Historical information

Gwyn HANSSEN PIGGOT (1935-2013)
Born Ballarat

Gwyn Hanssen Piggot completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Melbourne University in 1954. She spent three years apprenticed to Ivan McMeekin at Sturt Pottery, Mittagong, New South Wales. Between 1958 and 1965 Gwyn Hanssen-Pigott worked at various potteries in the United Kingdom, including Winchcombe Pottery in Gloucestershire, Leach Pottery at St Ives, and Wenford Bridge Pottery and Aldermaston Pottery in Berkshire. In 1960 she established her own studio in London.

The essence of her work is purity, simplicity and form. She worked with porcelain for strength and for its translucent nature, and fired with wood to add a dine ash bloom to glazes.

In 1992 Gwyn Hanssen Piggot was artist in residence at the Ballarat School of Mines.

Physical description

A small woodfired bowl by internationally renown ceramicist Gwyn Hanssen Piggot.