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Record Id:40290659 (Australian Library Collections) permalink
Author:Rushforth, Peter, 1920-
Title:Peter Rushforth interviewed by Martin Thomas [sound recording].
Published:2005.
Description:4 digital audio tapes (ca. 260 min.)
Summary:This interview with Peter Rushforth covers his childhood in Sydney and Morpeth, NSW; family background; memories of the Depression; work as a typist at Fox Films; joining the army in 1940; war service in Darwin and Malaya; internment in Changi and work on the Burmese railway; return to Sydney in 1945; art studies in Melbourne; meeting his wife Bobby; establishing potteries in Sydney; the birth of daughters; teaching at the National Art School; visiting Japan in 1963 where he met and worked with master potters; philosophy of ceramics; techniques used in his potting; move to the Blue Mountains where now lives and works. The final tape is a recording of a lecture Peter Rushforth gave about his work in November 2005.
Notes:Recorded on Sept. 20, 2005 at Blackheath, N.S.W. and Nov. 12, 2005 at the Cudgerong Gallery, Gulgong, N.S.W.
Digital master ; National Library of Australia, Oral History collection ; nla.oh-5656-0000.
Finding Aid:Timed summary (10 p.) and uncorrected transcript (typescript, 72 leaves)
Subjects:Rushforth, Peter, 1920- -- Interviews.
Potters -- New South Wales -- Interviews.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Australian.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
Potters lcsh
Other Authors:Thomas, Martin, 1964- Interviewer
Access Conditions:Access open for research and personal copies, written permission is required for public use for 10 years from the date of the interview.
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Libraries that have this item:National Library of Australia. National Library of Australia (ANL) (3676384) ORAL TRC 5656 ; ORAL TRC 5656 (summary) ; ORAL TRC 5656 (transcript)

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