MAG&Ms Ceramics Collection
MAG&M is working towards uploading its permanent collection online. In total, we have over 6,800 items across five collection areas, so it is a big job!.
In the meantime, and as part of our new online offering, we plan to showcase works from the collection for you to enjoy.
First up, we present pieces from our ceramics collection which currently holds 408 items. This selection of works were purchased or donated over the past decade and include some of the most significant ceramicists working in Australia today, as well as a special piece by Peter Rushforth (1920-2015) who was known as the ‘father of Australian ceramics’ and lived between Sydney’s Northern Beaches and the Blue Mountains NSW.
Simone Fraser (b.1951)
Impression Series #5
2014
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Simone Fraser (b.1951)
Impression Series #5, 2014
dry glaze, mid-fired ceramic vessel, 33 x 16cm
MAG&M Collection - Purchased through the Roger Pietri Bequest 2015
Item C0369
Honor Freeman (b.1978)
Flood tide, 2012
slip cast, wheel thrown and hand built porcelain, 28 x 46 x 36cm
MAG&M Collection - Purchased through the Roger Pietri Bequest 2015
Item C0372
John Dermer (b.1949)
Bell form, 2013
salt glazed porcelain with oxides, wheel thrown, 32 x 25cm
MAG&M Collection - Gift of MAG&M Society 2014
Item C0365
Fairlie Kingston (b.1954)
Collaroy, 2010
Ceramic relief tile
MAG&M Collection - Purchased 2017
Item C0334
Peter Rushforth (1920-2015)
Plate with blue glaze
c1980
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Peter Rushforth (1920-2015)
Plate with blue glaze, c1980
Chun glaze on tenmoku underglaze, 5 x 43cm
MAG&M Collection - Gift in the name of Anthony Schoer by daughter Alyson 2012
Item C0349
Neville French & Belinda Fox
Tilt 12, 2017
porcelain with inlaid and brushed slips, wood ash, limestone glaze and acrylic, 3 pieces, 30 x 32 x 20cm
MAG&M Collection - Gift of MAG&M Society 2017
Item C0398
Barbara Campbell-Allen (b.1954)
Long awaited rain
2019
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Barbara Campbell-Allen (b.1954)
Long awaited rain, 2019
woodfired stoneware, earthenware slip, ash glaze, 39 x 45 x 33cm
MAG&M Collection - Purchased 2019
Item C0422
Julie Bartholomew (b.1956)
Weeping container
2015
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Julie Bartholomew (b.1956)
Impression Series #5, 2014
porcelain with white matt and red copper glazes and decals, 28 x 24.5cm
MAG&M Collection - Purchased through the Theo Batten Bequest 2016
Item C0394
Guan Wei (b.1957)
Blue Like Sky 1, 2014
porcelain vase, hand-painted, 44 x 29cm
MAG&M Collection - Purchased through the Roger Pietri Bequest 2015
Item C0371
Rupert Jack (b.1951)
Kaltu Kaltu, 2017
stoneware with sgraffito, 17 x 26 x 14cm
MAG&M Collection - Purchased 2017
Item C0396
Cathy Franzi (b.1964)
The Sanctuary, North Head
2014
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Cathy Franzi (b.1964)
The Sanctuary, North Head, 2014
porcelain, englobe, glaze, sgraffito, raku, clay and oxides, 32 x 55 x 42cm
MAG&M Collection - Purchased through the Theo Batten Bequest 2014
Item C0364
Stephen Bird (b.1964)
Last Muster of the Tasmanian Aborigines at Risdon with paint tin
2012
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Stephen Bird (b.1964)
Last Muster of the Tasmanian Aborigines at Risdon with paint tin, 2012
hand-painted and glazed ceramic form, 20 x 37 x 36cm
MAG&M Collection - Purchased through the Roger Pietri Bequest 2015
Item C0368
