JEWELLERY, ANTIQUE & ART AUCTION Tuesday, 20 August 2019 - 10:00 AM start
Yvonne Rust QSM (1922-2002)
Lot Details
Coastal scene, oil on board, signed and dated 1947. 290 x 400mm. Note: Rust's remarkable teaching career began in the mid-1940s after she gained a diploma in fine arts in Canterbury. She taught art in secondary schools for 30 years, mainly in the South Island. She played a leading role in developing pottery skills in the communities in which she lived, starting eight studios and apprenticing many potters. She also organised and directed the first national pottery workshop/school and started her own art school in 1959. Her interest in clay took her to the West Coast in 1967, where she taught at Greymouth High School and started the West Coast pottery movement. After retiring from teaching in 1972, she returned to Northland to build a home and become a professional potter at Parua Bay. She was asked to start the Northland Craft Trust in 1976 and, in 1980, acquired Waldron's quarry with the help of grants from the Department of Internal Affairs and the Whangarei City Council. A few years later she surprised many by giving up pottery to dedicate herself to painting. Within a few years her painting had earned her an award from the Academy Of New Zealand in Wellington. Her other awards included a Queen's Service Medal for services to art, a QEII Fellowship, life memberships of the Potters' Association and the Craft Council, and the Canterbury Society of Arts' silver medal, its highest award.
