Jo Caddy

Josephine Caddy (c. 1916 – 2006) was an American-Australian painter and ceramicist, who worked in the media of acrylic, oil, printmaking, drawing, and ceramics.[1] She focused on portraiture in both her paintings and ceramics, including "people pots", vases featuring human faces.

Josephine Caddy
Caddy at her home in the Adelaide Hills circa 1990
Bornc. 1916 (1916)
USA
Died2006
Adelaide, South Australia
Alma materVancouver School of Art
Known forPortraiture-based ceramics and paintings

Biography

Caddy was born in Washington, USA[2] and spent part of her childhood in Juneau, Alaska. She completed a degree in Fine Arts at the Vancouver School of Art.

She arrived in Tasmania in 1951 and moved to Adelaide in 1957, where she frequently held exhibitions of her work and taught at the South Australian School of Art (now the University of South Australia), University of Adelaide and Girton Girls' School. Caddy was divorced and had three children.

Notable works

Jo Caddy's paintings are held by the Art Gallery of South Australia and in several private collections. Seven of her portraits were finalists in the Archibald Prize and she won the Portia Geach Memorial Award in 1967.[3][4][5]

Caddy produced portraits of several notable Australian and international figures including:

References

  1. "Jo Caddy Biography". Design and Art Australia Online.
  2. "Jo Caddy - Australian Pottery at bemboka". www.australianpotteryatbemboka.com.au. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
  3. "Archibald Prize finalists 1968 :: Art Gallery NSW". www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
  4. "Archibald Prize finalists 1967 :: Art Gallery NSW". www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
  5. "Archibald Prize finalists 1969 :: Art Gallery NSW". www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
  6. "Archibald Prize finalists 1973 :: Art Gallery NSW". www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
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