Word: blakebrough
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...Hanssen Pigott has lent these objects a heavenly aura. Before your eyes, her luminous glazes seem to fade to white; porcelain lips quiver. When two Buddhist monks enter the room, they are drawn to the pieces like moths to a flame, which is hardly surprising. If Tasmania's Les Blakebrough is the father of Australian pottery, then Ipswich, Queensland-based Hanssen Pigott, who practices a form of Buddhism, is its mother superior. "If there was any investment of her spirituality in her work," says Jason Smith, curator of the National Gallery of Victoria's current retrospective, "it would be that...
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