page_title: Ian Sprague
hierarchical_section_title: Ian Sprague
caption_attribution_description: English: Tall stoneware vase by Ian Sprague 1970s; photographed in St Kilda Victoria
context_page_description: Ian Broun Sprague was an Australian twentieth century studio potter, ceramic sculptor and graphic artist. Delayed by the Second World War and a false start in architecture, he spent his forties adapting Australian domestic pottery to a Japanese aesthetic of contemplative use; his fifties as a sculptor in two and three dimensional pottery; his sixties and seventies making landscape works on paper.
context_section_description: Ian Broun Sprague  (1920–1994) was an Australian twentieth century studio potter, ceramic sculptor and graphic artist. Delayed by the Second World War and a false start in architecture, he spent (broadly) his forties adapting Australian domestic pottery to a Japanese aesthetic of contemplative use; his fifties as a sculptor in two and three dimensional pottery; his sixties and seventies making landscape works on paper.
caption: Tall stoneware vase with textured neck and cross-scored body, 1970s; 21cm x 64cm; Ian Sprague and Mungeribar marks.
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