Gwyn Hanssen Pigott, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Gwyn Hanssen Pigott

Australian ceramic artist

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-1935

Place of Birth: Ballarat, Victoria, Australia

Date of Death: 05-Jul-2013

Profession: ceramist

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Gwyn Hanssen Pigott

  • Gwyn Hanssen Pigott OAM (1935–2013) was an Australian ceramic artist.
  • She was recognized as one of Australia’s most significant contemporary artists.
  • By the time she died she was regarded as "one of the world's greatest contemporary potters".
  • She worked in Australia, England, Europe, the USA, New Zealand, Japan and Korea.
  • In a career spanning nearly 60 years, influences from her apprenticeships to English potters were still apparent in her later work.
  • But in the 1980s she turned away from production pottery to making porcelain still-life groups largely influenced by the Italian painter Giorgio Morandi.

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