Audrey Stockwin (1936- 2018) was born in England. She studied languages and art history at Manchester University before working for two years as a museum assistant at the William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow. In 1960, she accompanied her husband to Canberra where she completed the Museums Association Diploma she had begun at Walthamstow in 1961. During the 1960s, she took pottery classes at the Canberra Technical College and also studied in Japan while living there in 1962-63 and again on a visit in 1974. In 1970, she bought a gas-fired kiln and began making once-fired reduction stoneware and porcelain. In August1972, she held an exhibition of her work at the Fantasia Gallery in Canberra. In her entries in the 1977 and 1981 directories, she is based in Aranda, ACT. A large porcellainous stoneware vase with cobalt/iron glaze and iron decoration is illustrated in Pottery in Australia, 20/1 (1982), p. 63. Although she still has entries in the 1986 and 1988 directories, she had returned to England by 1982, setting up her studio at Wooton, Woodstock. She died in 2018. Her mark in the 1977 directory is AS with a character in between that looks like a seven with a leg.
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