Nicholas Vergette

Sculpture of Nicks Vergette at his home near Carbondale, 1974.

Nicholas (Nick) Vergette (1923–1974) was a British potter and sculptor,[1] and Professor of Art at the Southern Illinois University, School of Art and Design from 1960 to 1974.[2]

He was born in Lincolnshire in 1923. Vergette was trained in Europe, where he studied pottery under Dora Billington at the Central School of Art and Design in London.[3] In Britain during the 1950s Nicholas Vergette, Caiger-Smith, Margaret Hine and others including the Rye Pottery made tin-glazed pottery, going against the trend in studio pottery towards stoneware.[4] They all were given the name of "Piccassettes" by the potter Bernard Leach. Billington in his book The Younger English Potters noted:

From several sources [6] it is evident that in the early 1950s Newland, Hine and Vergette "formed something of a coterie", sharing a studio in Bayswater and exhibitions at the Crafts Centre and the Studio Club in Piccadilly. The three of them also participated in a holiday in Spain in 1949 where they "went to Malaga and studied throwing and tin-glaze techniques". [7] Darren Dean in a 1994 article entitled William Newland, Margaret Hine and Nicholas Vergette, 1949-1954 concluded:

He emigrated to the United States in 1957. Donhauser (1978) recalled, that "Dirk Hubers and Nicolas Vergette are two examples of potters who, through their distinctive form language, added to the diversity of style and attitudes which comprised the American studio-pottery scene during the 1950's."[9] Vergette produced ceramic murals and figurative works for architectural settings during the 1950s and 1960s. [10]

References

  1. ↑ John Gardner (1978). Nicholas Vergette, 1923-1974. Lord John Press.
  2. ↑ Vergette Gallery at cola.siu.edu.
  3. ↑ Sandra Alfoldy. Crafting Identity: The Development of Professional Fine Craft in Canada. 2005. p. 37.
  4. ↑ Caiger-Smith, Alan, Lustre Pottery: Technique, Tradition and Innovation in Islam and the Western World(Faber and Faber, 1985) ISBN 0-571-13507-2
  5. ↑ Dora Billington and the Bayswater Three Retrieved on 24 Feb 2018
  6. ↑ Harrod, 'The Forgotten '50s', p.32; Peter Dormer, William Newland: It's All There in Front of You, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, 1996, pp.38 and 39; Darron Dean, 'William Newland, Margaret Hine and Nicholas Vergette, 1949-54: The Emergence of the Individual Studio Potter in Post-War Britain', Studio Pottery, no.12, December/January 1994-95, pp.31-38, p.3
  7. ↑ See video recording of William Newland interviewed by Mike Hughes at Prestwood, Buckinghamshire, 29 September 1994, NEVAC CD 708 (1 of 4), 7min.40sec.-7min.47 sec.
  8. ↑ Dean, William Newland, p.39.
  9. ↑ Paul S. Donhauser (1978), History of American Ceramics: The Studio Potter. p, 125
  10. ↑ Sandra Alfoldy "Crafting Identity: The Development of Professional Fine Craft in Canada", published by McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal and Kingston, London, Ithaka, 1969, p.37. ISBN 0-7735-2860-1
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