Peter Rushforth, potter, interviewed by Ken Henderson [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 2201365
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Rushforth, Peter, 1920-2015, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Written permission required for research, personal copies and public use during the lifetime of the interviewee.
- Description:
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- 1986 Jun. 18
- 2 sound cassettes (ca. 134 min.)
- Summary:
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Rushforth reflects on his life as a potter and the Japanese influences on his work. He describes taking up pottery in late 1940s; post-war attitudes to pottery as an artform; influence of crafts movement; pottery as a vocation; materialism; love for his work; early life; (break in tape); RAAF war service; teaching at East Sydney Technical College; Japanese aesthetic; Australian pottery; art education; (interruption because of cat); art as a softener of industrial society; owner-building; glazing techniques; use of local materials; aesthetic standards; functional versus aesthetic design; firing techniques; kiln as a tool; Japanese regional techniques; intuition in design; passing down art values; teacher-pupil relationship; self-development; tradition and dogma; Japanese values; (Henderson interjection); Japanese and teaching colleagues; polishing clay; overseas and Australian exhibitions; style in pottery; positive environment at ESTC; mature and young students; admittance to art schools.
Rushforth also talks about pottery courses; former students; educators as innovators; workshops; pottery as a cottage industry; recreational pottery; ceramic pollution; interest in Japanese art; books and art training; Zen discipline; Eastern and Western cultures.
- Notes:
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- Transcript unavailable.
- Background noise throughout recording.
- Lending copy: 2 cassettes.
- Recorded at the home of Peter Rushforth, Shipley via Blackheath, N.S.W. on 18 June 1986.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Henderson, Kenneth Russell, 1924?-1986, interviewer
- Copyright:
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- Until 2056 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1986
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