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Hedley POTTS

Hedley Potts studied ceramics at RMIT in the early 1960s. In 1974 he received an Australian Council Crafts Board grant to study overseas, and was visiting artist at the Goldsmith's College, University of London in 1979. In the 1980s Potts was working as a senior lecturer in Ceramics at Monash University's Gippsland Campus (now Federation University). In 1995, Hedley Potts was appointed artist in residence at Kingston Arts Centre in Moorabbin. He was one of the artists represented in the Ceramics Victoria Inc 40th Anniversary exhibition in 2009. He incises his works 'Hedley Potts' on the base.

Stoneware and castable

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Arthur WARREN (1958- )
Born Yallourn, Victoria

Arthur Warren attended Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education from 1977 to 1979. He later returned as a visiting lecturer. After graduating Arthur Warren trained with Victor Greenaway for six and a half years, before establishing Amesfield Pottery in Upper Beaconsfield in 1986.

Four porcelain lace pieces

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Two handled plate

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Possible made by Dedang?

A ceramic satay stick. If you are able to assist with information on this artist or artwork please use the email link below.

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Peter G. WILSON
After completing a Bachelor of Arts at Macquarie University in 1976, undertook a Graduate Diploma of Arts (Visual Arts) at Monash University Gippsland (now Federation University Australia) in 1993. In 1995 Wilson was awarded a Master of Creative Arts (Distinction) from Wollongong University, and a Doctor of Creative Arts University of Western Sydney in 2003.

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Wheelthrown glazed jug

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Russell Thorpe was a Diploma of Visual Art student at the Gippsland Centre for Art and Design (GCAD) from 1977 to 1979.

Woodfired Vessel

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Woodfired sculpture

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Robert WYNNE (1959- )
Born Yarram

Robert Wynne studied a Diploma of Visual Arts at the Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education (now Federation University) from 1977 to 1979, and a Graduate Diploma of Visual Arts in 1981 majoring in Ceramics. During his final year he met visiting glass artist, Nick Mount, who had recently established a studio within Monash University. Robert was captivated by glass blowing and worked with Mount in those heady, pioneering days and carries with him many of the lessons he learned from Nick.

Rob Wynne completed a Masters Degree in Glass at the California State University and visited private glass studiost in the USA. In 1991 he established his own studio, Denizen Glass Design at Manly, New South Wales, where he produces a range of hand-blown glass including smaller production work and large, one-off sculptural pieces.

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Hugh LEGGE

Hugh Legge attended the Canberra School of Art (at time of Alan Peascod) and moved to Rosedale (near Batemans Bay) back in the 1980s where he was wood firing. His work may be marked with an impressed 'HL' in a circle

Woodfired bottle with handle

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Les CLOUGH

Les Clough was a Diploma Student at the Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education from 1979 to 1982.

This work is part of the Jan Feder Memorial Ceramics Collection. It was presented to the collection by Les Clough. Jan Feder was an alumna of the Gippsland Campus who studied ceramics on the campus. She passed away in the mid 1980s. Her student peers raised funds to buy ceramic works in her memory. They bought works from visiting lecturers who became leading ceramic artists around the world, as well as from many of the staff who taught there.

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rings

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Copper flare

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Glazed ceramic platter with crazing.

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Kim Batty was a Diploma Student at the Gippsland Centre for Art and Design

Fluted glazed vessel

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Four blackware slabs

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Nine blackware Forms

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Professor Vernon PATRICK Professor Vernon Patrick was a visiting artist to the Gippsland Campus. In 2018 he was listed as an Emeritus Professor of the California State University.

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Steven CUTHILL

Steven Cuthill was a diploma graduate from the Gippsland Centre of Art and Design (GCAD), and was later a tutor.

A salt glazed bottle with titanium slip glaze.

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Nankervis prefers the pre-Industrial Revolution method of firing pottery, involving heating the kiln by burning wood for five days, to the modern, quicker methods using gas or electricity. The distinctive surfacing in wood-fired ceramics is generated by the ash and volatile salts from the burning wood. "Because the wood ash and salts blush the ceramic pieces in the kiln, the finished work tends to take on the nature of the firing process," he said. "One colleague has described the process as painting with fire."(https://www.strathnairn.com.au/studios/artist-in-residence/montessa-maack-ursula-burgoyne-jen-lyall-and-vicki-grima-5ndd6, accessed 09 July 2021)

Tony NANKERVIS

Tony Nankervis taught ceramics from 1984 when the university was the Northern Rivers College of Advanced Education from 1984. before moving to Southern Cross University (SCU) in 1994. He retired from full time teaching in 2004.
Nankervis was a pioneer of the long wood-fired ceramics technique in Australia: a technique he has been practising since the late 1970s Nankervis prefers the pre-Industrial Revolution method of firing pottery, involving heating the kiln by burning wood for five days, to the modern, quicker methods using gas or electricity. The distinctive surfacing in wood-fired ceramics is generated by the ash and volatile salts from the burning wood. "Because the wood ash and salts blush the ceramic pieces in the kiln, the finished work tends to take on the nature of the firing process," he said. "One colleague has described the process as painting with fire. There are particular qualities that only come from firing in that way, he said. "If you see some of these older ceramics, particularly from Asia, the surface qualities are discernible from the surfaces generated by post-Industrial fuels." (https://www.scu.edu.au/engage/news/latest-news/2004/leading-australian-potter-who-paints-with-fire-retires-from-lecturing-at-scu-after-19-years.php, accessed 09 July 2019)

Three Lidded Woodfired Cylinders

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