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Catherine Speck, Emerita Professor, Art History and Curatorship, University of Adelaide

Milton Moon: the Australian artist who brought a Zen Buddhist, modernist and painterly sensibility to pottery

Milton Moon in his studio in Tarragindi, Queensland, 1966, photo: John McKay, Milton Moon archive

Milton Moon (1926-2019) was not your regular potter. He was deeply imbued with Zen Buddhism and once said each vessel is a container for thoughts, “a fundamental expression of life’s forces”.

His work produced over six decades is on show in a new exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia that calls for close looking.

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