Name

Grace Secombe

Other names

CAPPER, Grace Povey

G.S.

Culture

Australian | English

Gender

Female

Birth date

3 September 1880

Birth place

near Tunstall, North Staffordshire, England View on map Close map

Death date

25 February 1956

Death Place

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia View on map Close map

Movements

Australia from 1902

Occupations

Ceramic artist | Decorative / design artist

Summary

Worked: Australia (NSW)

NGA IRN

16355

Context

Australia

Biography

Grace Povey Capper was born near Tunstall, North Staffordshire, England on 3 September 1880. Her father Alfred Capper, a potter, brought his family to Sydney in 1902 and established a pottery at Longueville, North Sydney. Later he established the Enfield Art Pottery at Enfield, Sydney. In 1907 Grace Capper married Clarence Seccombe, a Sydney architect, and encouraged by her husband began in the 1920s to model birds. Working from a studio at Eastwood, Sydney, Grace Seccombe's work was very popular especially her models of kookaburras and koalas and sold well through Prouds, the Sydney jewellery store. She taught art and craft at a Sydney girls' school and exhibited with the Arts and Crafts Society of New South Wales from 1930-1955. She died in Sydney on 25 February 1956.