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

Tel: +44 (0)1970 622460

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Email: artschool@aber.ac.uk


Display artist/maker:

Dora Billington

Born: 1890, UK, England, Stoke-on-Trent   Died: 1968

Ceramicist. From a family of potters. Studied at Hanley School of Art before working as a decorator for Bernard Moore, 1912-15. She then studied ceramics at the Royal College of Art where she taught alongside John Adams, 1916-24, before teaching at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, 1924-55. She rose to Head of Department in both institutions. Whilst teaching she continued to design for industry and worked with J. & G. Meakin during the 1920s and 1930s. She served as President of the Arts and Crafts Society, 1940-56, and published numerous books and articles including 'The Art of the Potter', Oxford University Press, 1937, and 'The Technique of Pottery', Batsford, 1962. In her teaching she encouraged the making of one-off individual pieces, emphasised the importance of handbuilding and generally opposed the oriental aesthetic of Bernard Leach

Objects in the collections associated with this artist/maker

Owl C457 Ceramics




 
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