This is Joan Campbell

Joan Ruth Campbell MBE (1925–1997) was a Victorian born potter/ceramic artist.

Joan Campbell was born in Geelong, Victoria in 1925. At the age of fifteen, in 1940, her relatives relocated to Western Australia. She took going on pottery far along in life, at first as just a commotion before pursuing it as a craft. She build up a wood-fire kiln at her Scarborough home, teaching herself firing techniques.

In 1959, Campbell worked once Johannes de Blanken, a Dutch potter who had moved to Western Australia. She next partnered behind Eileen Keys and they unqualified to use by yourself locally open materials in their work. In 1966, the two experimented past the Raku firing techniques, which later became her preferred method of firing. Campbell held her first solo exhibition in 1969 at the Old Fire Station Gallery in Fremantle. In 1970 she travelled to the United States and worked with Paul Soldner. Campbell found herself instinctive recognised as an exponent of Raku, and was invited in 1972 to exhibit at the International Academy of Ceramics Exhibition, with a selected activity of Australian potters, at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

In 1968 Campbell helped assert the Western Australian Branch of the Crafts Association of Australia (later Craft Association of Western Australia) as the Association’s secretary. She was a initiation member of the Crafts Board of the Australia Council (which was traditional in 1973), and was a aficionada of the Australia Council from 1974 to 1977.

Campbell usual a studio at the Old Kerosene Store building upon the shore of Bathers Beach, adjacent to the ruins of the indigenous Fremantle Jetty (south of the South Mole of Fremantle Harbour) in 1975.

In 1977 she was awarded an MBE for her ham it up in the Arts and in the thesame year was WA Citizen of the Year (Arts, Culture and Entertainment).

Late in 1996 she was diagnosed in the heavens of cancer and died on 5 March 1997.