METHLEY, Joan Foster

Artist

Born 1898 in Pietermaritzburg, the second child of Willoughby Laidman Methley of “Newstead”, Balgowan, KZN and his wife Elizabeth Symons (nee Rowe).

Worked at the Ceramic Studio/Linnware: March 1926 - 1952

Trained at the Durban School of Art (1916-1918) and the Royal College of Art, London (1919-1921). Taught briefly at the Durban School of Art after returning to South Africa. Co-founder of the Ceramic Studio. She was manager of Linnware 1942 -1952, after Con-Rand purchased the business.

Exhibitions:
1922 (with Gladys Short and one Elsie Currie): Exhibition of ceramics at the Durban Technical College. (The Natal Mercury, 29 November 1922 p. 10)

She painted tiles for the interior of R Cullinan's house Sunlawns.

The family gravestone, which includes her name, is in the cemetery of St Mark’s Anglican Church, Karkloof, Shafton, KZN.

List of projects

With photographs
With notes

House R Cullinan: Sunlawns: n.d.. Olifantsfontein, Gauteng - Artist tiles

References

Hillebrand, Melanie. 1991. The women of Olifantsfontein - South African studio ceramics : Die vroue van Olifantsfontein - Suid-Afrikaanse ateljee-keramiek . Pretoria: South African National Gallery. pp 14