William Staite Murray

William Staite Murray (1881–1962) ƙwararren mai ginin tukwane ne ɗan Ingila .

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An haife shi a Deptford, London kuma ya halarci azuzuwan tukwane a Makarantar Fasaha da Sana'o'i ta Camberwell daga 1909 - 1912. Ya yi aiki tare da Cuthbert Hamilton, memba na ƙungiyar Vorticist,  a Yeoman Pottery da ke Kensington kafin ya shiga soja a 1915.  A shekarar 1919, bayan ya yi aikin soja, ya kafa nasa tukwane a Rotherhithe, London a harabar aikin injiniya da ginin ƙarfe na ɗan'uwansa. Duk da cewa da farko fasahar avant-garde ta yi tasiri a kansa, ya ƙara sha'awar fara yin tukwane na China, wanda hakan ya sa ya fara yin manyan duwatsu a cikin murhun mai. Daga Rotherhithe ya fara ƙaura da studio zuwa Brockley a Kent sannan kuma a 1929 zuwa Bray, Berkshire. 

Ya ƙi duk wani buƙatar aiki a cikin aikinsa, yana ɗaukar tukwanensa a matsayin zane mai tsarki da kuma ba su lakabi na musamman.  A wannan fanni, ya yi karo da Bernard Leach da mabiyansa, waɗanda aikinsu ya zama babban ƙa'ida a gare su. Manufar Murray ita ce ɗaga martaba da suna na tukwane zuwa matakin da za a ɗauke shi daidai da zane da sassaka.  Ya kasance memba na ƙungiyar masu zane da sassaka Bakwai da Biyar, kuma ya gudanar da baje kolin tare da masu zane Ben da Winifred Nicholson da Christopher Wood .  Shi ma memba ne na ƙungiyar Red Rose . 

An naɗa shi malami a fannin tukwane a Kwalejin Fasaha ta Royal da ke Landan a shekarar 1926 [undefined] kuma ya zama malami mai tasiri a shekarun 1930, ɗalibansa ciki har da Henry Hammond, Sam Haile, [2] Robert J Washington, [3] da Emma Smith Gillies . [1] A shekarar 1940 ya yi wata uku yana ziyara a Kudancin Rhodesia (yanzu Zimbabwe) kuma ya yanke shawarar zama, wani ɓangare saboda yaƙin. Ya daina yin tukwane kuma ya mutu shekaru ashirin bayan haka duk da cewa ya yi baje kolin ƙarshe a Landan a ƙarshen rayuwarsa.

A Rhodesia an naɗa shi Amintaccen Majalisar Fasaha ta Ƙasa.

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