Olive Emily Jones was born in Onehunga, Auckland, in 1893. After
schooling she attended Elam School of Art and in 1932 travelled to England,
following her sister Gwenda.
Jones enrolled at the London County Council’s Central School
of Arts and Crafts and took evening classes at the Camberwell school under Dora
Billington and at the Wedgwood
Institute, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, In 1934 she returned to Auckland, and was accepted as a member of the Auckland
Society of Arts and held a small solo show of pieces brought from England.
She set up a workshop and began selling work to shops and
from her studio and later tutored evening classes at the Society of Arts,
In 1939–40 Jones demonstrated and sold work at the New
Zealand Centennial Exhibition in Wellington. She continued her work and in
November 1957, when Oswold Stephens organised the first more...
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