Elizabeth Lissaman

Elizabeth Hazel Lissaman OBE (11 October 1901 – 18 February 1991) was a New Zealand studio potter.[1]

Elizabeth Lissaman

OBE
Born
Elizabeth Hazel Lissaman

(1901-10-01)1 October 1901
Blenheim, New Zealand
Died18 February 1991(1991-02-18) (aged 89)
Cambridge, New Zealand
Known forCeramics

Lissaman was born in Blenheim and grew up on her family's sheep station, Waireka, near Seddon.[2]

In 1969, Lissaman published Pottery for Pleasure in Australia and New Zealand, a book designed to support potters working with Australasian clays.[3]

Lissaman was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for services to pottery, in the 1982 Queen's Birthday Honours.[4] Her work is held in several public collections, including the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and the Sarjeant Gallery.[5][6]

Lissaman died in Cambridge in 1991.[1]

Publications
  • Lissaman, Elizabeth (1977). Pottery for pleasure in Australia and New Zealand. Sydney: Reed. ISBN 9780589002978.

References
  1. Blumhardt, Doreen. "Elizabeth Hazel Lissaman". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
  2. "Remembering a pottery pioneer". Marlborough Express. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
  3. McPhee, Elena (31 August 2015). "Pottery pioneer's work conserved". Marlborough Express. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
  4. "No. 49010". The London Gazette (3rd supplement). 12 June 1982. p. 40.
  5. "Elizabeth Lissaman items, Te Papa". Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
  6. "Elizabeth Lissaman items, Sarjeant Gallery". Sarjeant Gallery. Retrieved 21 January 2018.


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