Gwyn Hanssen Pigott

GWYN HANSSEN PIGOTT (b. 1935)

Gwyn Hanssen Pigott was born in Ballarat, Victoria in 1935 and studied Fine Arts at Melbourne University. She trained with Ivan McMeekin in New South Wales and worked with Ray Finch, Bernard Leach and Michael Cardew in Britain. Setting up studio, first in London in 1960 and later in Acheres, France, she returned to Australia in 1975 and has lived and worked there since.

Gwyn Hanssen Pigott has exhibited extensively in Australia, America, Europe and Asia and is the recipient of many awards. Her work is in numerous private and public collections worldwide. In 2002 she was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for service to the arts as a ceramic artist and teacher.

Above: Gwyn Hanssen Pigott, Japan 2006
Photo © Wakae Nakamoto

Curriculum Vitae...

Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2010	Galerie Besson, London
2008	Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
2007	Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
2006	Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney Parades: Freer Ceramics Installed by Gwyn Hanssen Pigott, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington DC
2005	Gwyn Hanssen Pigott: A Survey 1955 - 2005, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
2004	Galerie Besson, London Caravan, Tate St. Ives, touring to Crafts Study Centre, Farnham, Surrey and Ruthin Craft Centre, Wales, UK
2003	Garth Clark Gallery, New York Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney
2002	Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
2001	Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
2000	Galerie Besson, London
1999	Garth Clark Gallery, New York
1998	Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne Rex Irwin, Sydney
1997	Gwyn Hanssen Pigott: Bowls and Still Lifes, Craftwest Gallery, Perth Galerie B15, Munich, Germany
1996	Gwyn Hanssen Pigott: A Twenty Year Survey, Queensland Art Gallery Garth Clark Gallery, New York Small Works, Narek Galleries, Canberra
1995	Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne Rex Irwin, Sydney
1992	Still Lifes, Galerie Besson, London

Selected group exhibitions since 2001:
2009	Pots for Light: New International Porcelain, Galerie Besson, London
2008	Twenty Years - Twenty Pots, Galerie Besson, London
2005-6	Transformations, The language of craft, NGA, Canberra
2004	Porcelain: Galerie Handwerk, München, Germany
2003-4	50 Years of Australian Ceramics, Newcastle Region Art Gallery Australia
2003	Still Life: Ceramics and Paintings, Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland, NZ The dish ran away with the spoon: Exploring Still Life, Academy Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania Changing Surfaces, Shepparton Art Gallery, Australia Now and Now, World Contemporary Ceramics - The 2nd World Ceramic Biennale 2003 Korea Inaugural Exhibition: The Legacy of Modern Ceramic Art – Part 2: Ceramic Art from an International Perspective, Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu, Japan The Second Wave. Ceramics and Glass Circle of Australia Inc. Fo Guang Art Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
2002-3	Clemenger Contemporary Art Award 2002, The Ian Potter Centre, NGV: Australia, Melbourne Fieldwork, Australian Art 1968-2002, Inaugural exhibition, The Ian Potter Centre, NGV Australia Teapots and Opium, Garth Clark Gallery, New York
2002	Less is More - Less is a Bore, Brisbane City Gallery Kunstmesse München, Galerie B 15, Munich Ceramic Modernism: Hans Coper, Lucie Rie and Their Legacy, Gardiner Museum Of Ceramic Art, Toronto Ritual of Tea: Jam Factory Contemporary Craft and Design, Adelaide, S.A. and Object Galleries, Sydney
2001-2	“Poetics of Clay”: An International Perspective, Philadelphia Art Alliance and Konstindustrimuseet, Helsinki

Exhibitions at Galerie Besson

Gwyn Hanssen Pigott	2010
Pots for Light: New International Porcelain	Apr - May 2009
Classic & Contemporary Ceramics	Jan - Feb 2009
Twenty Years - Twenty Pots	Sep - Oct 2008
Gwyn Hassen Pigott: Still Lifes for Windows	Jun 2004
Gwyn Hanssen Pigott	May - Jun 2000
Commemorative Mugs for the Millennium	Dec 1999 - Jan 2000
Gwyn Hanssen Pigott: Still Lifes	Sep - Oct 1992

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