Graeme Storm was born in Auckland in 1936. He studied in Auckland and Dunedin Teachers' Colleges and began making pottery and building kilns at his parents' Orakei home in 1956. Worked as an Arts and Crafts adviser for the Education Department and in 1959 travelled to the UK and Europe, attending the Central School of Arts & Crafts in London. While in London he worked with Kenneth Clarke and Gwyn Hanssen. He also met Lucie Rie, Hans Coper, Bernard Leach and Harry and May Davis.
During a visit to his father’s homeland, Finland, he went to the Arabia factory in Helsinki where he experienced the blue, green and purple high fired glazes achieved from copper carbonate.
He returned to Aotearoa New Zealand in 1961 and resumed work as an arts & crafts advisor, all the while making pots and becoming a full-time potter in 1964.
In 1965 he more...
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