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Vase - Carl McConnell (1926-2003)
stoneware
height 23 cm base diameter 5.6 cm
Vase by Dr. Carl McConnell OA made in the first period of the Pinjarra Pottery between 1958 and 1962. McConnell started pottery in Brisbane in 1948, where he studied at the Central Technical College (assisting Hatton Beck 1901-1994) and became instructor of painting and carving from 1952-1954. His first studio was set up at Norman Park in 1954. Five years later, in 1959, he opened up the "Pinjarra Pottery", where he produced a wide variety of Japanese influenced stoneware items. McConnell was one of the first potters in Australia to do so and it is in this respect that he became influential to many studio potters of the 1970s and 1980s. His honours include a Fellowship of Brisbane advanced Education and a doctorate for the Arts at Queensland University of Technology, as well as Medal of the Order of Australia (granted 2004), for service to the arts as a ceramic artist and teacher of the craft.
Vase - Carl McConnell (1926-2003)
stoneware
height 23 cm base diameter 5.6 cm
Vase by Dr. Carl McConnell OA made in the first period of the Pinjarra Pottery between 1958 and 1962. McConnell started pottery in Brisbane in 1948, where he studied at the Central Technical College (assisting Hatton Beck 1901-1994) and became instructor of painting and carving from 1952-1954. His first studio was set up at Norman Park in 1954. Five years later, in 1959, he opened up the "Pinjarra Pottery", where he produced a wide variety of Japanese influenced stoneware items. McConnell was one of the first potters in Australia to do so and it is in this respect that he became influential to many studio potters of the 1970s and 1980s. His honours include a Fellowship of Brisbane advanced Education and a doctorate for the Arts at Queensland University of Technology, as well as Medal of the Order of Australia (granted 2004), for service to the arts as a ceramic artist and teacher of the craft.