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A good Muriel Moody (1907-1991) salt glazed sculpture of a shag,…
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A good Muriel Moody (1907-1991) salt glazed sculpture of a shag, modelled with head raised, variable dark blue to its back, caramel to its front, the beak cracked and repaired, raised on mahogany square plinth base, the tail of the bird overhanging. Original exhibition label to base 'No. 5 Salt Glazed Bird...'. Height 50 cm. Note: Moody was a noted N.Z. commercial artist, welfare worker, sculptor and potter. Her lifelong interest in art included lessons with Harry Richardson. In the mid-1930s she moved to Christchurch, becoming the head of advertising for the department store Ballantynes. There she met other artists such as Rita Angus and Louise Henderson. In 1941 Moody joined the British YWCA War Service, working closely with the Director of Welfare for the Far East, fellow New Zealander Jean Begg, where she spent seven years in England, Egypt, Ceylon and India setting up residential, recreational and welfare clubs for servicewomen. In 1946 she worked in Japan to open clubs for women of the British Commonwealth Occupation Forces, including a Muriel Wilson Hostel. She settled in Days Bay, Wellington, where she set up kilns and began to specialise in pottery. In the 1950s she attended ceramics classes at the Petone Technical College with Wilf Wright, June Black, Mary Hardwick- Smith, Lee Thomson, Roy Cowan and Juliet Peter. She fired her larger salt glazed pieces in Roy Cowan's kiln in the Wairarapa. Further biographical details available
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Ceramics: New Zealand Potters & Themes