Ceramics by Nell McCredie, Sydney, working 1930s-50s

Nell McCredie was born in Sydney on 27 May 1901. McCredie was a member of a leading architectural family with associations with Queensland as well as New South Wales. She was the niece of well-known Sydney architects Arthur Latimer and George McCredie.

Nell McCredie graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Sydney in 1923, one of Australia's earliest architectural graduates. and practiced as an architect in Sydney and Brisbane.

While in Brisbane, she had studied pottery in Brisbane under the master craftsman Lewis Jarvis Harvey, and McCredie returned to Sydney in 1932 where she became a professional potter, setting up a commercial pottery at Epping in partnership with her younger brother Bob McCredie. She exhibited actively with the New South Wales Society of Arts and Crafts into the 1950s and in 1951 won the Society's Elizabeth Soderberg Memorial Award for pottery.

Pottery by the more... McCredies is well regarded for its simplicity and craftsmanship. It is represented in five public collections in Australia: National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Powerhouse Museum (Sydney), Art Gallery of South Australia and Shepparton Art Gallery.

Nell McCredie passed away in 1968. less...