Gwyn Hanssen Pigott, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian ceramic artist
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Place of Birth: Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
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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