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Nicholas (Nick) Vergette (1923–1974) was a British potter and sculptor, who produced ceramic murals and figurative works for architectural settings during the 1950s and 1960s.Sandra Alfoldy "Crafting Identity: The Development of Professional Fine Craft in Canada", published by McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal and Kingston, London, Ithaka, 1969, p.37. He was Professor of Art at the Southern Illinois University, School of Art and Design from 1960 to 1974.
Vergette Gallery
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Nicholas (Nick) Vergette (1923–1974) was a British potter and sculptor, who produced ceramic murals and figurative works for architectural settings during the 1950s and 1960s.Sandra Alfoldy "Crafting Identity: The Development of Professional Fine Craft in Canada", published by McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal and Kingston, London, Ithaka, 1969, p.37. He was Professor of Art at the Southern Illinois University, School of Art and Design from 1960 to 1974.
Biography
Vergette was born inLincolnshire
Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a county in the East Midlands of England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the east. It borders Norfolk to the south-east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south-west, Leicestershire ...
in 1923. He studied pottery under Dora Billington at the Central School of Art and Design in London.
In Britain during the 1950s Vergette, Alan Caiger-Smith, Margaret Hine
Margaret Hine (1927–1987) was a British studio potter. She was known in the 1950s for her animal figures but also produced painted dishes and ceramic murals.Oliver Watson, ''Studio Pottery'', London: Phaidon Press, 1993
Life
She studied at D ...
and others including the Rye Pottery made tin-glazed pottery, going against the trend in studio pottery towards stoneware. They all were given the name of "Piccassettes" by the studio potter and art teacher Bernard Leach.
In the early 1950s Newland, Hine and Vergette "formed something of a coterie", sharing a studio in Bayswater
Bayswater is an area within the City of Westminster in West London. It is a built-up district with a population density of 17,500 per square kilometre, and is located between Kensington Gardens to the south, Paddington to the north-east, and ...
and exhibitions at the Crafts Centre and the Studio Club in Piccadilly
Piccadilly () is a road in the City of Westminster, London, to the south of Mayfair, between Hyde Park Corner in the west and Piccadilly Circus in the east. It is part of the A4 road that connects central London to Hammersmith, Earl's Court, ...
. The three of them also had participated in a holiday in Spain in 1949 where they "went to Malaga and studied throwing and tin-glaze techniques".
Vergette emigrated to the United States in 1957. From 1960 to 1974 he served as Professor of Art at the School of Art and Design of the Southern Illinois University.
Vergette died of cancer in 1974, two months after completing "Here", a large sculpture piece on the SIU campus.
Reception
Dora Billington in her 1953 article "The Younger English Potters" in ''The Studio'' noted: Darren Dean in a 1994 article entitled ''William Newland, Margaret Hine and Nicholas Vergette, 1949-1954'' concluded: Donhauser (1978) recalled, that "Dirk Hubers Dirk Hubers (Amersfoort, 24 September 1913 – Guanajuato, 1 November 2003) was a Dutch ceramist, who lived and worked in Bergen, North Holland and starting in 1958 in the United States. Hubers is notated for being "one of the first to apply abstra ...
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 1950s."Paul S. Donhauser (1978), ''History of American Ceramics: The Studio Potter.'' p, 125
References
External links
Vergette Gallery
at cola.siu.edu. {{DEFAULTSORT:Vergette, Nicholas 1923 births 1974 deaths English ceramicists English sculptors English male sculptors Southern Illinois University faculty 20th-century ceramists British emigrants to the United States