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Steve Fullmer (1946 USA-) 'Pilot' important and innovative large vessel - c.mid/late 1980's. Minor fault. H.410mm. L.510mm. Provenance: From the collection of Mervyn Schamroth
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Note: In ‘100 New Zealand Craft Artists’ 1988 Helen Schamroth wrote: 'Steve Fullmer was never particularly aware of mythology when he lived in South California. He dealt in real things, including two years drafted to the US Army. It was not until he came to New Zealand that he realised the South Pacific was alive with mythology. He didn't deliberately set out to make mythological creatures-they just evolved. Most of his output has been domestic ware, to which he pays as much attention as his sculptural work. In the mid-1980s he made a series of Pilots, vessels that, unlike vases or bowls implied movement. The Pilot pieces typically had a single huge wing, decorated with marks that evoked passage through space. They appeared to have travelled through great heat and many gases, as though they had been through Hell, then emerged lean and battered. They were deliberately rough, quick and spontaneous-looking forms, provocative, fantasy images that suggested Halley's Comet and outer space. In 1985 Fullmer won a Merit Award at the Fletcher Brownbuilt Pottery Award with one of these pieces; in 1986 he won the Supreme Award; and in 1987 he was a joint winner of the Supreme Award. His work was represented in a number of international exhibitions after that, and in 1991 he was commissioned to produce large-scale work based on the Pilots for World Expo in Seville. For Expo Fullmer re-invented the concept and created three works named after the sailing vessels of Columbus.'
