author and photographer: Damon Moon
A ppearing under the banner ‘Scotland’s Last Ceramics Course to Close’, the March 2008 article from the Glasgow Sunday Herald discussed the imminent demise of ceramics at the Glasgow School of Art. Responding to concerns raised by current students, ex-students and staff – one of whom was the potter Alex Leckie, an influential figure who worked in South Australia as far back as the late 1950s – the article quoted a statement released by the school, which reads as follows:
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By Jeff Doyle
2 October 1951 – 25 February 2008
O n 25 February 2008, the Australian art world lost one of its finest ceramics artists when Lex Dickson died suddenly from the unforeseen side-effects of the cancer therapy he had so recently come through seemingly with success. Lex was born in New Zealand where he still has family (parents) and friends, and had travelled widely before settling in the northern regions of Sydney in the early seventies. After some time in Terry Hills, he and his wife Sharon built a studio, kiln and house at Clareville, overlooking Pittwater. That local area of the Sydney Northern beaches, combined with Lex’s continual re-assessment of his wider South Pacific origins, was to find maturing artistic expression in much of his work of the last decade, as his potting practice moved into that of narrative and historical interpretation presented through ceramic art.
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A selection of artist work from Issue 47/2
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