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Warren Tippett's pottery

Warren Tippett's pottery

Anglo-oriental stoneware dominated pottery until the 1980s, when new aesthetics started to emerge. Warren Tippett's colourful earthenware work was radically different and reflected a Pacific setting, as well as Asian and Mediterranean ceramic influences. 

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Douglas Lloyd Jenkins and Lucy Hammonds, Crafts and applied arts – Ceramics, glass, jewellery and textiles, 1980s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/45318/warren-tippetts-pottery (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Douglas Lloyd Jenkins and Lucy Hammonds, published 16 May 2014.

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Moyra Elliott
17 June 2017
The above display was a part of a retrospective exhibition at Objectspace, Auckland. It was researched and curated by Moyra Elliott. A catalogue, published by Rim Books, with images and essays, entitled, 'The Greatest Show: Warren Tippett's Pots from a Life Less Ordinary' was authored by Elliott with a guest essay by Peter Wells. It was re-designed and published by Rim Books in 2017.