Grace Seccombe

Date of birth
c 1880
Place of birth
England
Date of death
1956
Place of death
Sydney
Nationality
Australia
Biography

Grace Seccombe (nee Capper) was an English born Australian artist and potter known for her brightly coloured hand-modelled Australian birds and animals in the 1930s-1940s. Seccombe was born in Tunstall in Staffordshire in 1880. Her father was a potter and she also worked at pottery works at Burslem in her home county.

In 1902 she immigrated to Sydney with her family. She studied at the Sydney Technical College, but it wasn’t until 1926 that she began practicing as a potter working in local clays. Seccombe sold her work through Sydney Jewellers Prouds Ltd, Taronga Zoo Gift Shop and the Blaxland Gallery on Broadway Sydney. Her work was popular with tourists and is still highly collectable.