Taylor, Douglas

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Maker Name

Taylor, Douglas

Marks

Taylor, Doug mark

Biography

Doug Taylor was one of the founders of Pottery Works, along with Jack Olive. In the early 1970s they received a Canada Council grant to build a gas kiln in an old warehouse on Hamilton Street in Vancouver. It burnt down and the studio moved to Richmond, BC, and briefly to Granville Island., Daniel Materna took over the studio. Taylor was a studio technician at Emily Carr College when it first moved to Granville Island in 1980. Taylor stopped working in clay and has become involved in wind mobiles.

First name

Douglas

Last name

Taylor

Date of Birth

1947

Place of Birth

Chilliwack, British Columbia

Major Exhibitions

1980 - Retrospect Ceramics 80. Potters Guild of BC - 25th Anniversary exhibition

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Missing info

Source

Debra E. Sloan

Item sets

Old BCCMR import (needs images)

BC Ceramic Makers

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