Gwyn Hanssen Pigott

Who was Gwyn Hanssen Pigott?

Gwyn Hanssen Pigott was an Australian ceramic artist. With a career spanning over 45 years, influences from her early apprenticeships with English potters Ray Finch, Michael Cardew and Bernard Leach were still apparent in her later work. Hanssen Pigott wood-fired her porcelain still-life arrangements that are noticeably influenced by the still life work of Italian painter Giorgio Morandi. Her palette was clearly inherited from China’s Song Dynasty wares introduced to her through her various apprenticeships in the Leach tradition. Hanssen Pigott maintained a studio in Ipswich, Queensland, and was recognized as one of Australia’s most significant contemporary artists.