Australian potters' marks
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October Update
We thought it was an appropriate time to give an update on the work that’s been going on to maintain and update the Australian Pottery Marks sites on WordPress and Flickr.
· In the past 2 months an additional 80 potters have been added to the A-Z listings (and to the relevant state pages) on this site…..there are still quite a few to go before “new” entries will be added.
· The challenge of adding images of potters marks to the ‘Selected Images for….’ linked from this site has been resolved thanks to Ray Garrod (our volunteer IT guru) and David Rofe.
A start has now been made on adding these images, but it is going to be a relatively slow process, so please be patient.
· These images are actually stored on a Flickr page, which is linked from this site. Currently there are over 2,800 potters marks stored on the Flickr page.
This requires an annual subscription to maintain the ‘Flickr Pro Account’ for the linked page. If this is not kept current, then Flickr will delete all images stored there.
Ray Garrod has been currently paying a ‘gift of pro’ to keep the Flickr account active over the past month, which halted the deletion process.
In order maintain the Flickr page of potter’s marks, we are seeking contributions to a GoFundMe account to ensure the pottery marks images can continue to be added to and maintained on the Flickr site.
UPDATE: THANK YOU to everyone who has donated, the support is wonderful. The funding goal was achieved in under 6 hours, and the gofundme page will now close…….we are able to keep the flickr potters marks page going for the next 2 years!
Thanks for your continued support of this important resource.
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Vale Judith Pearce, who sadly passed away on 8th August, 2023
Judith’s contribution to the Australian Pottery scene has been huge, after starting this massive project in the early 2000s, and this particular website around 2012. Amongst Judith’s legacies are the 2 Australian Pottery websites and the Australian Pottery the Flickr group which Judith initiated.
Without Judith’s skills and constant work on this complex project , a lot of information and the biographies of Australian Potters would not have been recorded ….and possibly lost to history
For some time Judith was too ill to update the websites, but now thanks to a group of volunteers we have begun updating entries again after we sent out a request for assistance and receive a wonderful and heartening response to that request for help.
Judith’s’ partner David has also been a willing partner to make sure that we can continue to assist with Judith’s’ legacy by maintaining these sites into the future.
We are currently methodically going through the * posts on Flickr and adding them to the A-Z listing on this site, adding also to the States. Every month or so we will post updates on this site to indicate which potters names have been added to the site.
It is going to be a relatively long process, but there will be regular post updates to this site to let readers know what entries have been added.
At this time we are not able to add images to the ‘Selected Images for …’ as that flickr page has reached capacity and cant be added to. Our thinking caps are firmly on to overcome that situation, and we’ll update everyone when a solution has been found.
Finally, as Judith said herself in the very first post on this website – This is a work in progress … “While already a useful resource, work has only just begun. Now it will be up to all of us – potters, their families and heirs, collectors, curators, historians, buyers and sellers on the secondary market – to pool our knowledge and to keep adding entries and images as information comes to hand”
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