Papers of Peter Timms, 1919-1998 [bulk 1978-1992]. 1919-1998.

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Papers of Peter Timms, 1919-1998 [bulk 1978-1992]. 1919-1998.

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Research and subject files relating to his book "Australian studio pottery and china painting" (1986). The papers include alphabetically-arranged artist files, photographs, historical notes on technical education, arts and craft societies, commercial potteries and ceramic styles and motifs, together with a small amount of interesting original correspondence with potters, their relatives and associates. The collection also incorporates documentation relating to Timm's 1978 exhibition entitled 'Australian Pottery 1900-1950', and a cancelled 1992 exhibition on the influence of Japanese folkcraft pottery on Australian post-war ceramics, focusing particularly on the work of ceramists Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada.

1.54 m. (11 boxes) + 3 folio boxes.

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Leach, Bernard, 1887-1979

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Bernard Leach was born in 1887 in Hong Kong and lived in the Far East until the age of ten, when he came to England as a pupil of Beaumont Jesuit College, Windsor. At the age of 16, in 1903, he went to the Slade, as their youngest student, to study drawing under Professor Henry Tonks. After a year's stint as a bank clerk he left the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank in 1907 to learn etching under Frank Brangwyn at the London School of Art and in 1909 went to work in Japan as an etcher. ...

Hamada, Shōji, 1894-1978

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Timms, Peter, 1948-....

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Curator, gallery director, art critic and writer. Timms was born in Melbourne in 1948 and is a graduate of the Swinburne College of Art. A specialist in Australian pottery and porcelain, he has curated many exhibitions in metropolitan and regional Australia, including shows for the Shepparton Art Gallery and Manly Art Gallery and Museum, of both of which he is a former director. As well as acting as a consultant to public institutions, Timms has written a number of books and journal articles, an...