1926 Born Melbourne, Australia
1947 Discharged from Navy Service, lived in Queensland
1949-59 Studied Painting and Drawing at Central Technical
College, Brisbane, Queensland
1949-50 Studied with Margaret Cilento
1949-51 First became interested in pottery through a friend, and
in 1950 was taught wheel-throwing by Mervyn Feeney,
a traditional potter working in Brisbane.
1947-62 Employed in Broadcasting and later Television
1962 Senior Pottery Instructor, Department of Technical Education, Brisbane
1965 Awarded a Foundation Churchill Fellowship
Travelled and studied extensively overseas
1966 Represented Australia at the First World Craft Congress in Montreaux Switzerland
1967-68 Art tutor, Architecture Department, University of Queensland
1969 Left Queensland to live in Adelaide, South Australia
1969-75 Appointed Senior Lecturer, Head of Ceramics, South Australian School of Art
1974 Awarded a Myer Foundation Geijutsu Fellowship and lived and travelled Japan
1975 Resigned from lecturing to work full time, Summertown, Adelaide hills where he and his wife established a workshop, home & gallery in an 1850's stone mill
1976-1981 Foundation member of the Australia-Japan Foundation
1984 Awarded the Member of the Order of the Australia (AM)
1990 Made Life Member of the South Australian Crafts Council
1992 Recipient of an Advance Australia Foundation Award
1993 Recipient of an Australian Artists Creative Fellowship, for five years from 1994-98
Study and travel has been undertaken in United States, Mexico, United Kingdom, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Germany, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Greece, Iran, Japan, and Korea
EXHIBITIONS
2008 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
2006 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
2004 The Other Shore, 77th Anniversary Exhibition, Aptos Cruz Gallery, Adelaide
2002 National Gallery of Australia: Material culture: aspects of contemporary craft and design
2002 Transition and Resilience, Jam Factory, Adelaide
Centre for Contemporary Craft and Design
2002 Aptos Cruz galleries, Stirling, Adelaide
2002 Reminiscences and Recollections, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
2000 Melbourne Artfair 2000, Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton
1999 Inner States - Images of the Mind, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
1998 Cultural Echoes: Antiquities, Essence & Inspiration, Aptos Cruz Galleries, Stirling SA
1997 Then & Now, Meat Market Craft Centre, Melbourne
1996 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
1995 Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney
1994 Solander Gallery, Canberra - Anniversary Group Exhibition
1993 Stafford Studios Gallery, Perth
Aptos Cruz Gallery, Stirling, South Australia
1991 Art Gallery of South Australia, Retrospective Exhibition
Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
1990 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
Stafford Studios Gallery, Perth
1989 De Gruchy Gallery, Melbourne
1988 Bonython Meadmore Gallery, Sydney
ACAF1 Royal Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne
Solander Gallery, Canberra
Greenhill Galleries, Perth
Australian Decorative Arts 1900-1985, Canberra
1985 Potters Gallery, Sydney
Mark Widdup Gallery, Newcastle
Distelfink Gallery, Melbourne
1984 Festival of Arts - Bonython Meadmore Galleries, Adelaide
1983 Distelfink Gallery, Melbourne
1982 Greenhill Galleries, Perth
Market Row Gallery, Sydney
De Gruchy Gallery, Brisbane
Distelfink Gallery, Melbourne
1980 Festival of Arts, Jam Factory Gallery, Adelaide
1979 Craft Centre Gallery, Melbourne
Jam Factory, Adelaide
Masters Exhibition, Adelaide
Bonython Galleries, Adelaide
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1978 Festival of Arts, Jam Factory Gallery, Adelaide
De Gruchy Gallery, Melbourne
1977 Bonython Galleries, Adelaide
Craft Centre Gallery, Melbourne
1976 Collector Gallery, Perth
Festival of Arts, Festival Centre Gallery, Adelaide
De Gruchy Gallery, Melbourne
Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide
Solander Gallery, Canberra
1975 Bonython Galleries, Sydney
1973 Bonython Galleries, Sydney
1972 Skinner Galleries, Perth
Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1971 Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane
Bonython Galleries, Adelaide
EXHIBITIONS CONTINUED
1970 Mildura Sculpture Biennale
Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane
1969 Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
Bonython Galleries, Adelaide
Von Bertouch Gallery, Newcastle
1968 Macquarie Galleries
S.A. Festival of Arts, Art Gallery South Australia
South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne
1967 Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane
1965 Hungry Horse Gallery, Sydney
Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane
1964 Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane
1963 Von Bertouch Gallery, Newcastle
1962 Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney
Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane
1959 Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane
OVERSEAS AND TOURING EXHIBITIONS
1993 One man exhibition, Okayama, Japan
1986 First International Ceramics 1986, Mino, Japan
1983 Contemporary Australian Ceramics - touring Australia, NZ & USA
1980 Recent Ceramics - touring Europe
1978 Clay,15 Potters, the Pacific and North America
1977 Concorso Internazionale della Ceramica D'arte, Faenza, Italy
1976 Wood + Clay, Exhibition touring New Zealand, Asia, Europe and the Americas
1976 Wood + Clay, Exhibition touring New Zealand, Asia, Europe and the Americas
1974-76 Australian Ceramics - touring Australia
1969 International Crafts Exhibition, Stuttgart, Germany
1965 Commonwealth Arts Festival, London U.K.
Smithsonian Institute, Washington U.S.A.
1964 Australian and New Zealand Pottery, Touring Exhibition
International Ceramics Exhibition, Japan
1963 International Ceramic Exhibition, Smithsonian Institute, Washington U.S.A.
AWARDS
1993 Australian Artists Fellowship 1994-98
1992 Advance Australia Foundation Award
1984 Awarded Member, Order of Australia (AM) Queens Birthday Honours - Services to Ceramics
1978 Winner, Mayfair Award
1974 Myer Geijutsu Fellowship, cultural study 1 year Japan
1966 Foundation Churchill Fellowship for overseas study in U.S.A., Mexico, Europe, Scandinavia, United Kingdom, Greece & Iran
COMMISSIONS
Queensland University - architectural ceramics
Art Gallery of South Australia - wall sculpture
Premier's Department, Government of South Australia
Festival Theatre Fountain - Adelaide Festival Centre
Institute of Technology, The Levels, Adelaide
COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of New South Wales Art Gallery of South Australia
Art Gallery of Western Australia Artbank, Sydney
Arts Victoria Australia Japan Foundation, Tokyo, Japan
Australian Universities' collections, various Brisbane City Council Art Collection
Carrick Hill, Adelaide Collection of the Governor, Shanghai
Collection of the Secretary General, China Commonwealth Art Collection
High Court Building, Canberra National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria Newcastle City Art Gallery
Parliament House, Canberra Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
Queensland Art Gallery Regional Galleries throughout Australia
Reserve Bank Collection Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
Embassy Collections, Australian Government Private collections in Australia and overseas
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Anna King Murdoch, Potter’s Muse in the Mulga, The Age, 27/4/96
Art and Australia various Art Gallery of New South Wales, Catalogues
Artists and Galleries of Australia, M. Germaine Arts and Artists of South Australia, Benko, 1969
Aust’n Decorative Arts: The Past Ten Years, NGA, 1984 Australian and New Zealand Pottery, 1963-1964
Australian Pottery, Hood and Garnsey Ceramic Art and Perception, various
Ceramic Form: Shape & Decoration, Lane, U.K. ‘88 Ceramica, 1988 Spain
Ceramics in South Australia, Ioannou, 1987 Craft and Australia, various issues
Craft Australia, Yearbooks, various Crafts of the Modern World, UNESCO
Encyclopedia of Australian Art Focus on Milton Moon, Denys Pryor, QLD Uni Press
Jenny Zimmer, Review, The Age, 17/4/96 Keremik der Welt, Borrmann, Germany, 1984
Modern Australian Ceramics, Mansfield Molvig, the Lost Antipodean, Churcher, 1984
New Ceramics, Lewenstein and Cooper, U.K. Object, Craft Council of NSW, Summer 1994
Peter Ward, Ceramic Translations of a Bleak Landscape , The Australian, 12/4/96 Pottery in Australia, Magazine, various
Skangaroovia, Thompson The Artist Craftsman in Australia, Bottrell
The Australian Potter, Hamlyn, introduction, Geo, 1982 The Crafts Movement in Australia, Grace Cochrane, 1992
The Potter's Art: An Australian Collection, Mansfield The Potter's Manual, Kenneth Clarke, (UK) 1984
Twelve Australian Craftsman, Thompson Understanding Art, Churcher, 1973
Vantage, South Australia, 1978 World Crafts Council, Switzerland, 1966
Milton Moon, The Zen Master, The Potter & The Poet, Axiom Publishers, Adelaide 2006
