Jan Dunn

Jan Dunn (23 May 1940 – 15 May 2002) She held positions on national ceramics committees and the ACT Crafts Council and taught pottery at the Australian National University (ANU) Arts Centre and Workshop, in schools, colleges and in her own studio. Her ceramics are held in the Canberra Museum and Gallery, Central Craft in Alice Springs and the National Gallery of Australia where her art diaries and papers are also in the gallery's archives. Slides of Dunn's work were accepted into the Craft Australia (then the Crafts Council of Australia) slide library.

Dunn maintained a network of colleagues and continued to learn from them; Australian potters and ceramicists such as Marea Gazzard, Rod Bamford, Janet deBoos, Anita McIntyre, Alan Peascod, and international speakers at the National Ceramics Conferences in the 1980s such as Colin Pearson, Michael Cardew and Paul Soldner. She contributed to the development of Australian ceramics through her committee work which included the National Ceramic Award Committee 1990 to 1994, National Ceramic Conference Committee 1996, Management Committee ACT Crafts Council 1988 to 90 and ACT Crafts Council fundraising Committee 1992.

Technique During the 1980s Dunn produced lustreware vases, pots and occasionally platters, often decorated with traditional motifs. She built two kilns in her home studio in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory with some kiln parts bought from her time in Japan. She also began studies in life drawing as her health deteriorated. Dunn's last solo exhibition, Metamorphica, was at the Link Gallery, Canberra Theatre Centre in 2000 where she showed her later dry-glaze fantasy creatures.

Exhibitions, grants, awards 1979 Graduation exhibition, Canberra School of Art

1980 Emerging Craftsmen, Melbourne Vic exhibition and received Emerging Craftsman Grant

1981

Canberra Potters Society Annual Exhibition, First Prize Potters Gallery, Sydney NSW Year of the Tree, Craft Council ACT, Canberra Craft Council Showcase, Canberra

1991

ACT Department of Education and the Arts Professional Development Grant Teapots, Customs House Gallery, Warrnambool, Vic Pieces of Importance, Crafts Council of the ACT Candlesticks, The Old bakery Gallery, Lane Cove Bed and Breakfast: Annual Members' Exhibition, Crafts Council of the ACT Gallery Canberra Contemporary Craft, Meat Market, Melbourne Vic

1998 Orientations, Ceramic Art Gallery, Sydney

2001

Bowled Over, Fremantle Art Gallery, Fremantle WA