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Australian artist (1935–2013)

Gwyn Hanssen Pigott OAM (1935–2013) was an Australian ceramic artist.

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She was recognized as one of Australia’s most significant contemporary artists.^[1] By the time she died she was regarded as "one of the world's greatest contemporary potters".^[2] She worked in Australia, England, Europe, the US, 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.^[2]

Early years 1935–1955

Gwyn Hanssen Pigott was born Gwynion Lawrie John on 1 January 1935 in Ballarat, Australia.^[2] She was the second of four daughters.

Her father was director of an engineering firm and her mother an eclectic arts and crafts teacher–practitioner who surrounded Gwyn Hanssen Pigott | NETS Victoria HOWU