Marea Gazzard was a special person. She was an artist with a clear and refined sensibility who, over a lifetime of work, established an international reputation for her reductive, essential forms in clay. Her work is widelycollected and exhibited.
Gazzard has been acknowledged for her enormous contribution to art in Australia becoming a Member of the Order of Australia in 1979.
Beyond her own practice she was an advocate for the dismantling of the art vs craft divide. She dedicated herself to the promotion of Australian Craft and in 1970 was elected Director of the World Craft Council, followed by her election as Vice President
