An Idea Needing to be Made
Australia’s most distinguished potter, the late Gwyn Hanssen Pigott, is attributed with breaking the barrier between craft and art, turning everyday objects into arrangements that resembled still life paintings. Her life’s work, produced between 1955 and 2005, is characterized by restraint and clarity, and interrogates the function, display and purpose of the vessel. During the late 1980s, the most
