Milton Moon

Who is Milton Moon?

milton Moon AM is an Australian potter. He has studied in many countries, as a recipient of a Foundation Winston Churchill Fellowship and also as a Myer Foundation Geijutsu Fellow.

Milton Moon was born in Melbourne in 1926. After discharge from Navy Service in 1947 he lived first in Queensland and then in New South Wales until 1949, at which time he returned to Brisbane. He studied painting and drawing at the Central Technical College and then privately with Margaret Cilento from 1949 to 1951. He first became interested in pottery in 1950 and was taught wheel-throwing by Mervyn Feeney, a traditional potter living in Brisbane. He was also employed in broadcasting and later television from 1947 to 1962. In 1962 he became Senior Pottery Instructor with the Department of Technical Education, Brisbane.

In 1965 Moon was awarded a Foundation Churchill Fellowship and studied in many countries during the following year. He represented Australia at the first World Craft Congress, Montreux, Switzerland, in 1966. In 1967-68, he was an art tutor at the Architecture Department, University of Queensland. In 1969 became Senior Lecturer, Head of Ceramics at the South Australian School of Art. In 1974, as a Myer Foundation Geijutsu Fellow, he lived and worked in Japan.