Australia’s first art potters


Gregory Hill

Australiana, Vol 41 no 4, November 2019

Brothers Graham and William Ferry both trained as potters in Yorkshire, emigrated to Victoria and set up their own potteries in Melbourne’s Brunswick in the last two decades of the 19th century. Noted for their sculptural domestic wares and colourful majolica wares, here Greg Hill makes the case for recognising them as Australia’s first art potters.

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