Phoebe Stabler

Phoebe Gertrude Stabler (née McLeish, 1879–1955) was an English artist working across many mediums including metalwork, pottery, enamel and wood in the late nineteenth and early-mid twentieth centuries. "Although Stabler is best known for her pottery figures, during the 1920s and 1930s she was also well known for her stone carvings and was an important contributor to the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley, 1924."

Biography Stabler was born in Birmingham, but grew up in Liverpool, where both her parents originated.

Artwork In 1906, she married Harold Stabler. From 1912, Stabler and her husband, had a kiln in Hammersmith, London, where they worked collaboratively as well as Stabler producing garden ornaments. She created richly glazed pottery figures which were produced by both the Royal Worcester and Royal Doulton and Poole Pottery.

In 2018, The Light of Knowledge (1927) ceramic tile panel was put on display at the Rugby Art Gallery & Museum following a fundraising effort to have it restored.

Selected exhibitions Stabler's work was exhibited widely, including at the following institutes,

Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Society of Women Artists Royal Academy of Arts New Society of Artists Walker Art Gallery Women's International Art Club Sir John Cass Arts and Crafts Society Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society British Institute of Industrial Art

Works held in Collections