Photo: Alan Peascod signing an edition of etchings in Falls Gallery with Anne Smith

STUDIES
1964-65 Ceramics Certificate, Distinction Pass: ESTC
1966 Post-graduate studies, Sturt Workshops, Mittagong, NSW
1968 Further Post Graduate studies London UK
1970-present Research into Islamic Art: Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Turkey, Europe
1987-1995 Doctor of Creative Arts, University of Wollongong NSW

RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS


1972 UAR scholarship Egypt
1974 Australia Council: research in Iran, Turkey, Egypt, Persian Gulf
1977 West German Govt 'Internationes' Scholarship to Iran & West Germany
1979 Commonwealth Scholarship to Europe and India
1982 Sabbatical to Spain & Europe
1984 Spanish Govt. School of Protocol Madrid, to study in Spain
1985-86 Research in lustre technology United Kingdom
1989 Australia Council to research early Islamic lustre technology

WORK IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS


Australian National Art Gallery, Canberra
Art Gallery of NSW
Powerhouse Museum
National Gallery of Victoria
Art Gallery of South Australia
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Brisbane City Art Gallery and Museum
High Court, Canberra
Most Regional Galleries throughout Australia

Overseas

Shanghai, China
Vice Presidential Collection, Washington, USA
Museo Hispano/Arabe Granada, Spain
Dresden Art Gallery, Germany
Auckland Museum and Art Gallery, Auckland
International Ceramics Museum, Faenza, Italy
Ceramics Museum, Pallazzo dei Consoli, Gubbio, Italy
Various private collections throughout the world.


SOLO EXHIBITIONS


77 solo exhibitions since 1970 some selected shows being:

1985-87 First Retrospective Exhibition
1988 Anatol Orient Gallery, London
1994 Second Retrospective Exhibition
1994 Distelfink Gallery, Melbourne
1996 Faenza, Italy
1997 Ceramic Art Gallery, Sydney
2001 Galerie le Vieux-Bourg, Switzerland
2001 Ceramic Art Gallery Sydney

GROUP EXHIBITIONS


Countless most recent being:
1996 "Delinquent Angel": NZ, Italy, USA
1997 "Contemporary Australian Craft": Germany
1997 "SOFA" Chicago USA
1998 "Triennial De Porcelain", Nyon, Switzerland
1999 " Contemporary Australian Craft", Hokkaido Museum, Japan
1999 "Vitalita perenne del Lustro" Gubbio Italy
2000 Marianne Heller Galleries, Heidelberg, Germany