Elizabeth Lissaman
Elizabeth Hazel Lissaman (11 October 1901 – 18 February 1991) was a New Zealand studio potter. Lissaman was born in Blenheim and grew up on her family's sheep station, Waireka, near Seddon. In 1969, Lissaman published Pottery for Pleasure in Australia and New Zealand, a book designed to support potters working with Australasian clays. Lissaman was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for services to pottery, in the 1982 Queen's Birthday Honours. Her work is held in several public collections, including the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and the Sarjeant Gallery. Lissaman died in Cambridge in 1991. Publications References 1901 births 1991 deaths New Zealand potters People from Blenheim, New Zealand New Zealand Officers of the Order of the British Empire Women potters 20th-century ceramists New Zealand ceramicists New Zealand women ceramicists