Bio & Information
Grace Seccombe (1880-1956) Bio
Grace Seccombe born in England and employed in a pottery in Burslem Staffordshire England her father was a potter Grace moved to Sydney Australia where she became a renowned Australian potter Grace attended Sydney Technical College and studied black and white drawing In the mid 1902’s she started focusing on hand-modelled earthenware Grace became a member of the Sydney Society of Arts and Crafts in 1930 and exhibited with the society until 1951 In the 1930s Grace designed plates dishes and bowls decorating them with Aboriginal motifs By 1937 she and her husband were living at Eastwood a suburb of Sydney where she had a studio equipped with a kiln During the 1940s Grace became known for her small hand-modelled brilliantly painted pottery birds and animals its these beautiful object that are rare and sort by collectors Grace’s early kookaburras, other birds and animals of the 1920s are marked ‘Australia’ and ‘S’ The range of Australiana fauna she modelled in the 1930s and 1940s for the Sydney jewellers Prouds Ltd are either initialled ‘GS’ or signed ‘Grace Seccombe Australia’ on the base Grace also sold pieces through other retail outlets and through the gift shop at Taronga Zoo