Nicholas Vergette

Sculpture of Nicks Vergette at his home near Carbondale, 1974.

Nicholas (Nick) Vergette (1923–1974) was a British potter and sculptor,[1] and Professor of Art at the Southern Illinois University, School of Art and Design from 1960 to 1974.[2]

Vergette was trained in European, where he studied pottery under Dora Billington at the Central School of Art and Design in London.[3] In Britain during the 1950s Nicholas Vergette, Caiger-Smith, Margaret Hine and others including the Rye Pottery made tin-glazed pottery, going against the trend in studio pottery towards stoneware.[4]

He emigrated to the United States in 1957. Donhauser (1978) recalled, that "Dirk Hubers and Nicolas Vergette are two examples of potters who, through their distinctive form language, added to the diversity of style and attitudes which comprised the American studio-pottery scene during the 1950's."[5]

References

  1. ↑ John Gardner (1978). Nicholas Vergette, 1923-1974. Lord John Press.
  2. ↑ Vergette Gallery at cola.siu.edu.
  3. ↑ Sandra Alfoldy. Crafting Identity: The Development of Professional Fine Craft in Canada. 2005. p. 37.
  4. ↑ Caiger-Smith, Alan, Lustre Pottery: Technique, Tradition and Innovation in Islam and the Western World(Faber and Faber, 1985) ISBN 0-571-13507-2
  5. ↑ Paul S. Donhauser (1978), History of American Ceramics: The Studio Potter. p, 125

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