Hedley Potts
Hedley completed Diploma of Art (A.R.M.I.T.) and later Fellowship (F.R.M.I.T.). He worked in Teachers’ Colleges and then at Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education. Gippsland was a challenging privilege to be one of six pioneer staff to build an art school literally from the ground up, with the added advantage of a delightful tree-change to rural living. He developed the ceramics studio and stayed at G.I.A.E. through its various re-brandings to Monash University Gippsland Campus, from which he retired in 1994. Moving to Melbourne for family reasons dislocated his practice for a time through a rising damp temporary studio in Brighton, a studio at the VCA, and then the beginnings of the Moorleigh Ceramics Co-operative Ltd. The Co-op has been a ceramics success story, not without a couple of hiccups, but of great benefit to many members, as well as some community involvement and projects over more than two decades.
Hedley completed Diploma of Art (A.R.M.I.T.) and later Fellowship (F.R.M.I.T.). He worked in Teachers’ Colleges and then at Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education. Gippsland was a challenging privilege to be one of six pioneer staff to build an art school literally from the ground up, with the added advantage of a delightful tree-change to rural living. He developed the ceramics studio and stayed at G.I.A.E. through its various re-brandings to Monash University Gippsland Campus, from which he retired in 1994. Moving to Melbourne for family reasons dislocated his practice for a time through a rising damp temporary studio in Brighton, a studio at the VCA, and then the beginnings of the Moorleigh Ceramics Co-operative Ltd. The Co-op has been a ceramics success story, not without a couple of hiccups, but of great benefit to many members, as well as some community involvement and projects over more than two decades.