The Journal of Australian Ceramics Vol 48 No 3 November 2009

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Perspective left: Selection of designs for pottery shapes by David; photo: The Pottery and Ceramics of David and Hermia Boyd by John Vader, page 98 below: David and Hermia Boyd, Coffee pots, 22cm and 23.5cm. Both terracotta and both tin glazed. One has a metallic (opper glaze with manganese, the other sgraffito and copper oxide. England 1966. photo: The Pottery and Ceramics of David and Hermia Boyd by John Vader, page 115
Perspective Another reason David and Hermia Boyd's contribution to Australian ceramics was overlooked was simply because they had worked exclusively in earthenware, when the orthodoxy of Leach-inspired Anglo Oriental ceramics was at its zenith. Colourful, earthenware ceramics, no matter how well done, were deemed to be old-fashioned, crass even, by the exponents of Antipodean Sung, who somehow overlooked Leach's own enthusiasm for English slip-wares, which of course were also earthenware. For their part, David and Hermia Boyd held similar prejudices, having seen and dismissed much of British studio ceramics in the 1950s as being rather amateurish essays in a 'recently evolved tradition'12, with Hermia remarking on the preponderance of 'Japanese squiggles or the Leach-introduced Eastern hieraglyphic [sic[ for ripening corn'.13 Therefore, when the journal Pottery in Australia was first published in May 1962, with editor Wanda Garnsey taking pains to 'acknowledge the stimulus of Bernard Leach's personality .. . following his visit to Sydney'14, it's hardly surprising that the recent, spectacular contribution of two generations of Boyds would be ignored, as indeed it was for many years to come. It is therefore entirely fitting that this article appears in the successor publication to Pottery in Australia and I can only hope that the contribution of the Boyds, and in particular that of David and Hermia Boyd, is re-assessed and appreciated by a new generation of Australian ceramic artists. Damon Moon Willunga 2009 Emma Minnie Boyd nee a'Beckett, daughter of the first Chief Justice of Victoria, Sir William a'Beckett. 2 Vader, J, p.1S 3 Niall, B, The Boyds: a family biography, Melbourne University Press, 2002 4 Both Arthur Boyd and John Perceval went on to become very well-known and respected painters. 5 Herbst went on to become Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University and a founder of the Humanities Research Centre. 6 Cochrane p. 70 7 Sir Sidney Nolan, Albert Tucker and Joy Hester all become well-known painters. Sidney Nolan was also married to Mary Boyd. S Vader, J p.27 9 The Boyds' licence to trade was issued by the Crafts Council of Great Britain against the wishes of its Director, the potter Heber Mathews. For a revealing glimpse into post-war British craft politics, see Vader, J, pp. 37-39 10 ibid p. 107 11 ibid p. 113,114 12 ibid p. 36 13 ibid p. 37 14 Garnsey, Wanda, Editorial, Pottery in Australia, Vol. 1 No.1, 1962 THE JOURNAL Of AUSTRALIAN CERAMICS NOVEMBER 2009 29
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