- Place made
- Sydney
- Medium
- earthenware
- Dimensions
- 19.8 x 11.8 x 9.4 cm
- Credit line
- Gift of Blanche and Richard Koehne through the Art Gallery of South Australia Foundation 2022. Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program.
- Accession number
- 20222C2
- Signature and date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Provenance
- ...; Marvin Hurnall, Melbourne; purchased March 2000 by Blanche and Richard Koehne; gifted 2022 to AGSA.
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Collection area
- Australian decorative arts and design
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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.
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Galah is a classic example of Seccombe’s work in clay. Made in slip cast earthenware it features a pink and grey galah sitting on a tree stump.
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[Book] Fahy, Kevin, Free, Keith, et al. Australian Art Pottery 1900-1950.