Pippin Drysdale was born on 18 May 1943 and is an Australian ceramic artist and art teacher.
21 Facts About Pippin Drysdale
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Pippin Drysdale is regarded as the foremost interpreter of the Australian landscape in the field of ceramics.
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Pippin Drysdale's works are known for their intensity of colour and linear markings that interpret the artist's relationship with the Australian landscape.
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Pippin Drysdale was recognized as one of Western Australia's State Living Treasures in 2015.
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Pippin Drysdale's father, John Hastings "Bunny" Carew-Reid, was a successful businessman and real estate developer.
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Pippin Drysdale failed her Junior Certificate at Methodist Ladies' College, Perth.
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Pippin Drysdale then worked for a short stint at her father's company as a typist, then as a secretary in Canberra, then worked odd jobs in England for a year, and traveled throughout Europe.
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Pippin Drysdale returned to Fremantle, Perth in the 1970s, and started a successful business selling herbs.
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Pippin Drysdale is a painter, a colourist, whose chosen canvases are ceramics.
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Pippin Drysdale is stimulated by the colours and textures of landscape, putting her emotional interpretations into her work.
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Pippin Drysdale has taught ceramic art in Australia, Canada, UK, Italy and Russia.
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Pippin Drysdale went from an initial period of throwing bowls to making slab plates that she used as canvases for expressionistic drawing with coloured slips, glazes, and resists.
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Pippin Drysdale cites Willem de Kooning as an early influence.
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Pippin Drysdale moved from the toxicity of waxes and lustres to the much safer Liquitex medium, which allowed her to further refine her line work.
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Pippin Drysdale was influenced by indigenous painting and painter Fred Williams.
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Coalescing all these influences and ideas together, Pippin Drysdale arrived at her signature style of intense colour and fine linework in the first Tanami series called Red Desert, which was a great success.
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Pippin Drysdale's technique encompasses the selection of a suitable vessel, the adding the layers of glaze, then the careful linear incisions with a knife through a masking resist to inscribe the tracery that defines and shapes each work.
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Pippin Drysdale finds constant renewal of self in the creative process, dating back to her earliest contact with clay:.
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Pippin Drysdale's pottery is thrown by Warrick Palmateer, a fellow Curtin graduate.
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Pippin Drysdale has a studio team of helpers to do the glaze mixing, colour testing, firing, bisque-ware sanding, internet work and shipping of work.
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Pippin Drysdale's work is represented in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Powerhouse Museum, Auckland Art Gallery, Queensland Art Gallery, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, National Museum of Scotland, Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Tomsk State Gallery and Museum, Novosibirsk State Art Museum, as well as in the Victoria and Albert Museum ceramic collection, London.