Eileen Keys was born in 1903 in New Zealand. She studied at the Canterbury School of Art, Christchurch, and the Chelsea School of Art and Crafts in London. She initially taught art at the Cathedral Grammar School, Christchurch, then in 1947 she moved to Western Australia and became involved with ceramics while teaching art and craft at Scotch College, Western Australia. Basically she is self-taught in ceramics except for visits to potters in England, Sweden, Japan and America, and she experimented much with local minerals in glazes. She is represented in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of Western Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Queensland Art Gallery and the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. Eileen Keys died in 1986.
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Eileen Keys 1903 - 1992 i) decorated ceramic dish Aboriginal feet markings signed keys and titled verso, diameter 20.2 cm, II) decorated glazed ceramic dish signed keys verso, diameter 19.5 cm, (slight Af chip to back rim) III) two egg shaped coloured…
Eileen keys 1903 - 1992 four pcs of decorated glazed studio Pottery wares two with signatures and one with monogram, height 14.3 cm, (tall vase)
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