the Australian artist who brought a Zen Buddhist, modernist and painterly sensibility to pottery
- Written by: Catherine Speck, Emerita Professor, Art History and Curatorship, University of Adelaide
Milton Moon in his studio in Tarragindi, Queensland, 1966, photo: John McKay, Milton Moon archiveMilton Moon (1926-2019) was not your regular potter. He was deeply imbued with Zen Buddhism and once said each vessel is a container for thoughts, “a fundamental expression of life’s forces”.
His work produced over six decades is on...