The Journal of Australian Ceramics Vol 49 No 1 April 2010

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Perspective Left: Wmdows at Bennetts; right: Bennetts garden pots; photos: Damon Moon fire from destroying the pottery in 1956. Reginald Bennett seriously considered whether to rebuild the pottery, but since his own son, Robert William Bennett, was now working at the pottery, it was decided that the business would continue. In 1964, Robert assumed control, in a marketplace where conditions were changing rapidly. Although the majority of garden wares used in Australia were still produced locally, the lifting of post-war restrictions had allowed an ever greater amount of imported ceramics to enter the market, a move which led to the demise of many of the small manufactories which had sprung up in the immediate post-war years. Bennett's responded to this decline by diversifying their manufacturing base, for a time even supplying bricks to a booming building industry, but also, conversely, by sticking to their guns and continuing to make a range of utilitarian pots almost identical to those they made in the late nineteenth century. A growth of interest in the crafts throughout the 1970s saw these traditional pots come back into fashion, while the proliferation of ceramics courses and increasing numbers of practitioners provided a ready market for Bennett's clay. With the closure of Koster's Pottery in 1977, Bennett's was left as the sole South Australian pottery operating along more or less traditional lines. In the mid- 1970s, Robert's son, John William Bennett, became the fifth generation to work at the pottery, and he now runs the business in a family lineage that spans three centuries. The last twenty or so years have seen added pressure on the business from imported garden wares, but Bennetts endures, providing a fascinating link to the vernacular ceramic traditions of the past. Damon Moon, Willunga 2010 12 THE JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIAN CERAMICS APRil 2010
Perspective 1 & 2 John Bennett throwIng a garden pol 3 Bennetts clay preparatIon photos: Damon Moon 4 Robert Wilham (Bob) Bennett, cIrca 1987 Photo: courtesy Bennetts Pottery Further information about the history of Bennetts Pottery and other historic South Australian potteries can be gained from Noris Ioannou's Ceramics in South Australia, 1836-1986: from Folk to Studio Pottery, Wakefield Press 1986 and from Geoff Ford's 19th century South Australian pottery: guide for historians and collectors, published in a limited edition in 1985 by Salt Glaze Press. 1 Gaskin, A.J., "Preliminary Investigations on clays from South Australia" Department of Mines Report Book No. 22, 1946 THE JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIAN CERAMICS APR IL 2010 13
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