| Description |
127 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
The pots -- Les Blakebrough: potter -- Apprenticeship years 1957-62 -- The Sturt Workshops -- The Sturt pottery -- Japan 1962-63 -- The Onda potters -- The Kawai pottery -- Return to Sturt 1964-72 -- The new kiln -- The exhibition pots -- New forms - classic and organic -- Sturt and the Australian craft movement -- The late 1960s -- Tasmania: a new era -- The Tasmanian School of Art -- The Crafts Board of the Australia Council -- The Mt Nelson Workshop -- Working in glass -- Ceramics and the Pot Company -- Recent work |
| Summary |
“In Les Blakebrough: potter, Jonathan Holmes examines the work of Les Blakebrough - one of Australia's finest and most innovative potters. The exuberance and vitality of Blakebrough's work, coupled with his extraordinary technical mastery, makes it among the very best produced in Australia.” “Holmes takes us on a journey through Blakebrough's career, detailing his early apprenticeship days at Sturt in New South Wales, the influential period of study in Japan and the subsequent years at Sturt as a potter and Director of the Sturt Workshops. Also covered is Blakebrough's involvement in the development of an Australia-wide craft network. In 1972 Blakebrough moved to Tasmania to teach pottery at the Tasmanian School of Art and in 1978 established The Pot Company, resuming full-time work as a potter.”--Book jacket |
| Notes |
Hardie Collection copy signed and dated by the potter |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 122-123) |
| Subject |
Blakebrough, Les, 1930-
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Blakebrough, Les, 1930- -- Catalogs.
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Potters -- Australia -- Biography.
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Potters -- Australia.
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Pottery -- Australia -- 20th century.
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Pottery, Australian -- 20th century -- Catalogs.
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Pottery, Australian -- 20th century.
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Pottery, Australian.
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| Genre/Form |
Catalogs.
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Biographies.
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| Author |
Blakebrough, Les, 1930-
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| LC no. |
90136086 |
| ISBN |
1862563160 |
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9781862563162 |
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