Jo Caddy (Australia) ceramics

Artist and ceramicist Jo Caddy was born in the state of Washington, USA, in 1916 and studied art at Vancouver School of Art in Canada in the 1930s. She migrated to Australia in 1951 and lived in Tasmania for 6 years before moving to Adelaide. She worked as a lecturer at the South Australian School of Art from 1957-1963 and at the University of Adelaide Adult Education Department from 1960 to 1964 and then from 1965 to 1988. Her first solo exhibition was in 1964 and she held solo shows in Melbourne, Adelaide as well as participating in numerous group shows. She was the winner of the Art Gallery of New South Wales Archibald Prize in 1968 and 1973 and won the Portia Geach Prize in 1967, and a finalist in the Portia Geach Prize in 2002. Her works are held in major Australian galleries, including the Art Gallery more... of South Australia, the National Gallery of Australia, and the Powerhouse Museum.

Caddy died in Adelaide in 2006 at the age of 90. <p> less...