Royce McGlashen

Background

McGlashen was born in Nelson in 1949.

Career

In 1966, he began a five-year apprenticeship with Jack Laird at Waimea Pottery, becoming a master potter. He moved to Australia where he worked at Montville Pottery in Queensland. In 1974, he travelled to South Africa and then on to England, working at Le Dieu Pottery in Norwich.

He returned to New Zealand in 1975.

In 1989, he began designing for Temuka Pottery.

Achievements

• In 1983 and 1987, he won Merit Awards at the Fletcher Brownbuilt Pottery Awards.

Membership

In the 1989 New Year Honours, he was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to pottery.