June Black
{{Short description|New Zealand ceramic artist and painter}}
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June Black (22 March 1910 – 1 November 2009) was a New Zealand ceramic artist and painter.
Early life
Black was born in Auckland in 1910.{{Cite web|url=https://findnzartists.org.nz/artist/1422/june-black|title=Black, June|website=findnzartists.org.nz|publisher=Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki and Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū|language=en|access-date=2018-09-23}} Her parents, Lesley and Hermia, emigrated to America when she was six months old. By 1927 her parents' marriage had ended and Hermia, Black and her sister Faith returned to New Zealand to live in Auckland. Black married Robert Frank in 1932 and they moved to Christchurch. She had three children, one tragically lost to cot death.{{cite web|url=http://www.nzfashionmuseum.org.nz/june-black/|title=June Black|last1=van Woerden|first1=Janie|website=New Zealand Fashion Museum|accessdate=4 March 2012}}
Education
Black briefly attended Auckland University’s Elam Art School at the age of 16 but it wasn't until 1952 and living in Wellington that she took pottery classes with Helen Mason at the Petone Polytechnic.
Career
Black had a successful career as an artist with her original ceramics and paintings. Her works were shown alongside well known New Zealand artists Rita Angus and Colin McCahon in the 1950s and 60s.{{Cite web |last=Swannix |first=John-Michael |date=11 November 2016 |title=New life breathed into ideas of visionary Kiwi artist |url=http://www.tewahanui.nz/culture/new-life-breathed-into-ideas |access-date=2018-09-23 |website=Te Waha Nui}} She exhibited at the Architectural Centre Gallery in Wellington, Christchurch’s Gallery 91 and New Vision gallery in Auckland. Her work was also exhibited in international shows, including shows held in Washington D.C. and in Australia. She also exhibited in the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts exhibition Academy Women; a century of inspiration. This exhibit celebrated 100 years of women's art in New Zealand.{{Cite web|url=http://www.artsdiary.co.nz/bt68/1825n.html|title=June Black, Blikfang - Artsdiary 1825 notes|website=www.artsdiary.co.nz|access-date=2018-09-23}} Black had a passion for fashion and incorporated this into her artworks.{{Cite web|url=http://www.depotartspace.co.nz/news/pecha-kucha-sheridan-keith-on-her-mother-artist-june-black/|title=Sheridan Keith on her mother, artist June Black – Depot Artspace|website=www.depotartspace.co.nz|language=en-US|access-date=2018-09-23}} She was a founding member of Ceramics New Zealand.{{Cite web |title=Foundation Members of Ceramics NZ - October 1963 |url=https://www.ceramicsnz.org/AboutNZP/FoundationMembers.cfm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180812121412/https://www.ceramicsnz.org/AboutNZP/FoundationMembers.cfm |archive-date=12 August 2018 |access-date=2018-09-23 |website=Ceramics NZ}}
June Black died at the age of 99 on 1 November 2009. Her archives are held at the E H McCormick Research Library, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.{{Cite news|url=https://www.aucklandartgallery.com/explore-art-and-ideas/archives/25428|title=June Black Archive|work=Auckland Art Gallery|access-date=2018-09-23|language=en}}
Her daughter, Sheridan Keith, is a notable New Zealand writer.{{cite web |title=Keith, Sheridan |url=https://www.read-nz.org/writer/keith-sheridan/ |website=Read NZ Te Pou Muramura |access-date=4 March 2021}}
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Category:New Zealand women potters
Category:Elam Art School alumni
Category:20th-century New Zealand ceramists
Category:New Zealand ceramicists