Flora Annie Landells
{{Short description|Australian painter and potter (1888–1981)}}
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| birth_name = Flora Annie Margaret Le Cornu
| birth_date = 1 April 1888
| birth_place = Adelaide
| death_date = 30 July 1981 (aged 93)
| death_place = Nedlands
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| occupation = potter
| spouse = Reg Landells
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Flora Annie Margaret Landells born Flora Annie Margaret Le Cornu (1 April 1888 – 30 July 1981) was an Australian painter and potter. She is credited with inspiring interest in pottery in Perth.
Life
Landells was born in 1888 in Adelaide.{{Cite web |title=Flora Annie Margaret Landells :: biography at :: at Design and Art Australia Online |url=https://www.daao.org.au/bio/flora-annie-margaret-landells/references/ |access-date=2024-02-19 |website=www.daao.org.au}} Her name was Flora Annie Margaret Le Cornu{{Cite book |last1=Gooding |first1=Janda |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4PoHqvP-Q6sC&q=Flora+Annie+Landells |title=Western Australian Art and Artists, 1900-1950 |last2=Australia |first2=Art Gallery of Western |date=1987 |publisher=Art Gallery of Western Australia |isbn=978-0-7309-0503-5 |language=en}} and her parents were Emma Trephena (born Cole) and John Le Cornu who was a gardener.{{Citation |last=Erickson |first=Dorothy |title=Flora Annie Landells (1888–1981) |work=Australian Dictionary of Biography |url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/landells-flora-annie-14109 |access-date=2024-02-19 |place=Canberra |publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University |language=en}} It was her ambition to teach people to paint so in 1903 she set out on her own to study at Perth Technical School. Her fees covered the cost of tutors like James W. R. Linton and she was able to win scholarships to cover these costs. By 1904 she had joined an art society{{Cite web |last=Melbourne |first=The University of |title=Landells, Flora Annie Margaret - Woman - The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia |url=https://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0649b.htm |access-date=2024-02-19 |website=www.womenaustralia.info |language=en-gb}} and by 1907 she was teaching art at the Methodist Ladies’ College.
She exhibited at the Australian Exhibition of Women’s Work in 1907 and the Franco-British Exhibition at Wembley in the UK in the following year.
She used a motif based on Sturt's Desert Pea to decorate some of her pottery tea sets from the 1910s{{Cite book |last=Griggs |first=Peter D. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=60bhDwAAQBAJ&dq=Flora+Landells&pg=PA331 |title=Tea in Australia: A History, 1788-2000 |date=2020-03-26 |publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing |isbn=978-1-5275-4882-4 |language=en}} when her work was being fired in Helen and May Creeth's kiln. In 1920 she imported her own kiln but her other equipment and her clay was created by her husband.
She was credited with inspiring interest in pottery in Perth. In 1925 she had established the Maylands School of Art in Maylands at the home she shared with her husband, Reg Landells. The school's students included Rolf Harris, Marina Shaw, Amy Harvey and Jean Darbyshire. Landells ran the school of art in addition to her art teaching in schools. She was organising a solo exhibition of her landscapes in 1927.{{Cite news |date=1927-08-31 |title=WATER COLOR EXHIBITION |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article78748415 |access-date=2024-02-19 |work=Daily News}}
She and Reg Landells later created Landells Studio Pottery.
Landells died in Nedlands in 1981. Landells pottery is in the National Gallery of Australia.{{Cite web |title=Landells Pottery - One of a set of six cups and saucers (green) - Search the Collection, National Gallery of Australia |url=https://searchthecollection.nga.gov.au/object/8326 |access-date=2024-02-19 |website=National Gallery of Australia |language=en}}
References
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External links
- [http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/landells-flora-annie-14109 Biography at ADB]
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