School of Art

Contact Details

School of Art
Aberystwyth University
Buarth Mawr
Aberystwyth
Ceredigion
SY23 1NG

Tel: +44 (0)1970 622460

Fax: +44 (0)1970 622461

Email: artschool@aber.ac.uk


Display artist/maker:

Gwilym Thomas

Born: 1914, UK, Wales, Swansea   Died: 1995

Ceramicist. He attended Swansea School of Art in 1931 before attaining a place at the Royal College of Art in London where he studied with William Staite Murray, one of the leading pioneer studio potters. He spent most of his life teaching in Kent and London and in 1973 he became Head of Ceramics at Hammersmith School of Art. He retired from teaching in 1975. In 1956 he had moved to Orpington in Kent and built his own studio. The items in the collection were purchased in 1999 with the help of the V&A Purchase Fund and the Museums and Galleries Collection purchase fund

Objects in the collections associated with this artist/maker

[Bowl] C1441 Ceramics

[Goblet] C1356 Ceramics

[Vase] C1355 Ceramics

[Vase] C1439 Ceramics

[Vase] C1440 Ceramics

[Vessel] C1354 Ceramics




 
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