Olive Emily Jones (20 June 1893 – 26 December 1982) was a New Zealand
potter
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.
Biography
Jones was born in
Onehunga,
Auckland
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, New Zealand on 20 June 1893.
Career
Jones was elected a life member of the New Zealand Society of Potters in 1965, together with
Elizabeth Matheson and
Oswold Stephens.
For six months between 1939 and 1940 Jones demonstrated and exhibited her work at the
New Zealand Centennial Exhibition .
She exhibited with the Christchurch-based art association,
The Group
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, in 1950.
Her works are held in
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
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,
MTG Hawke's Bay
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History
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and
Auckland War Memorial Museum.
In 2017, works by Jones were included in an exhibition of early New Zealand female potters, held in West
Auckland
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.
References
1893 births
1982 deaths
New Zealand potters
People from Auckland
Women potters
20th-century ceramists
New Zealand ceramicists
New Zealand women ceramicists
People associated with The Group (New Zealand art)
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