Ceramics in the collection

Harry Memmott. (1921-1991)

Jug

Donated by Sally Sutton (Muller, 1993)

Harry Memmott trained as a painter, studying art at the Brisbane Technical College, and completing a rehabilitation art course at the East Sydney Technical College after the war. He returned home in 1950 and set up a business making silk screen prints and picture frames. Memmott learnt to make pots under the guidance of Merv Feeney. In the late 1950s, he began to make and teach studio pottery. In the late 1960s, he visited Japan, and soon afterwards, moved to the Dandenong Ranges, Victoria, to take up a position at the Prahran Technical College.