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* Carl McConnell / Pinjarra Pottery 4" tall x 3.5" wide. All with no damage or<br>wear.<br><br><br><br>Carl McConnell (1926-2003) was born in Chicago. He attended art schools in<br>Chicago, Dallas and Memphis, before serving in the US Navy from 1943-1945. He<br>was stationed at Brisbane for some of this time. He continued his art studies in<br>Pittsburgh after the war, but returned to Brisbane in 1948 with his<br>Australian-born wife and son Phillip (1946- ). He studied art at the Brisbane<br>Technical College, becoming interested in ceramics, setting up a studio in<br>Norman Park in 1954, and moving to the Pinjarra Hills in 1959. He taught at the<br>College from 1958-1963, resigning to become a full-time potter a year or so<br>after losing the position of Head of Pottery to Milton Moon. He taught again at<br>the College from 1971-74 and ceased working as a potter in 1983. He has come to<br>be regarded as Queensland's most significant contemporary potter and an exemplar<br>of the Anglo-Oriental tradition in Australia. He used a variety of marks, all<br>well-documented in Glenn Cooke's 1986 monograph
