Lot 107

There are no apparent losses or chips. There are some brown spots, it is uncertain if beaneath the glaze or within. The smaller vessel has some crazing.


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Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, 1997 (Blue Bowl)
Narek Galleries, Canberra (Vessel and Bowl)

"It was Pigott who did most to remove the invisible barrier between 'art' and 'craft' that saw potters looked down upon by the art crowd as makers of functional, commercial objects.It was a silly act of condescension because a great pot is as unique and aesthetically satisfying as any painting. Pigott made this point, not with heroic, singular objects, but with collections of bowls, cups and bottles in still life arrangements reminiscent of the pictures of Giorgio Morandi."
(John McDonald)

Pigott was inspired by the still-life paintings of the Italian Giorgio Morandi - the intensity of Morandi's gaze, his ability to make commonplace utility objects into something poetic and his focus on negative space, and intervals in his carefully staged groups.

In 2002 Pigott was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) "for service to the arts as a ceramic artist and teacher of the craft".