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 Elsie [Thelma?] 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.

All truncated references not fully cited in 'References' are those of Joanna Walker's original text and cited in full in the 'Bibliography' entry of the Lexicon.

List of projects

With photographs
With notes

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

Books citing METHLEY

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