Peter Stichbury (potter)
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Peter Stichbury {{post-nominals|country=NZL|MNZM}} (10 March 1924 – 24 March 2015) was a studio potter from Auckland, New Zealand.{{Cite book |url=https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124332334 |title=Crafting Aotearoa: A Cultural History of Making in New Zealand and the wider Moana Oceania |date=2019-01-01 |editor-last=Chitham |editor-first=Karl |pages=278-279 |language=English |editor-last2=Māhina-Tuai |editor-first2=Kolokesa U. |editor-last3=Skinner |editor-first3=Damian Hugh}}
Biography
Stichbury was born in 1924.{{cite web | last1=Elliott | first1=Moyra | title=Peter Stichbury 1924–2015 | url=https://conetenanddescending.wordpress.com/2015/03/25/peter-stichbury-1924-2015/ | website=Cone Ten and descending... | accessdate=26 March 2015 | date=25 March 2015}} In 1957, he was the first recipient of a fellowship from the Association of New Zealand Art Societies, which is now Creative New Zealand, and went with his wife Diane to St Ives, Cornwall, England to study with Bernard Leach. From there, he went to Africa and was Michael Cardew’s first western student in Abuja in Nigeria. These overseas periods were a source of inspiration for his work.{{cite web | url=http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/topic/2289 | title=Topic: Peter Stichbury in St Ives and Abuja: The formative years | publisher=Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa | accessdate=27 March 2015}}{{cite web | url=http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/topic/2265 | title=Topic: Peter Stichbury: Abuja, Nigeria | publisher=Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa | accessdate=27 March 2015}} Stichbury set up the pottery department at Ardmore Teachers College. His pottery was given to Queen Elizabeth II during her 1974 royal tour to New Zealand.
While Stichbury is mostly known for his pottery he also built musical string instruments (cellos, violas) in his later years. The work of Stichbury was honoured by exhibitions at the Auckland Museum{{cite book | title=Peter Stichbury: a survey of a pioneer New Zealand studio potter | publisher=Auckland War Memorial Museum | year=2007 | location=New Zealand | pages=62 | isbn=9780908623129}} in 2004 and the New Zealand National Museum Te Papa{{cite web | url=http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/party.aspx?irn=33190 | title=Peter Stichbury: Exhibition at the New Zealand National Museum Te Papa | publisher=Te Papa National Museum of New Zealand | accessdate=9 August 2013}} in 2011/12.
In the 2002 Queen's Birthday and Golden Jubilee Honours, Stichbury was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to pottery.{{cite web |url=https://dpmc.govt.nz/publications/queens-birthday-and-golden-jubilee-honours-list-2002 |title=Queen's Birthday and Golden Jubilee honours list 2002 |date=3 June 2002 |publisher=Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet |accessdate=25 June 2020}} Stichbury died on 24 March 2015, survived by his wife Diane and three children.{{cite web | title=Peter M. Stichbury | url=http://notices.nzherald.co.nz/obituaries/nzherald-nz/obituary.aspx?n=peter-m-stichbury&pid=174470254&fhid=12602 | publisher=The New Zealand Herald | accessdate=27 March 2015}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.ngataonga.org.nz/collections/catalogue/catalogue-item?record_id=64969 Filmarchive of New Zealand: Peter Stichbury]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20130205193311/http://ceramics.co.nz/Newsletter/Newsletters/ASPnewsMay2004.pdf Auckland Studio Potters Society Newsletter]
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Category:Artists from Auckland
Category:Members of the New Zealand Order of Merit
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