Talk:Jan Dunn (ceramicist)

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Notability?

Added a Notability template per WP:SIGCOV. Other than the obit, sources are a series of trivial mentions of appearances in group art shows and "represented within the permanent collections of several notable galleries or museums" is pretty thin, some donations and two pots?. Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 00:39, 8 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

removed the tag as meets WP:NARTIST with works in nga and cmag. Coolabahapple (talk) 07:12, 17 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

References show only one acquisition, other was a donation. This falls short of the line WP:NARTIST re: "been represented within the permanent collections of several notable galleries or museums". Tag should remain to so editors will know to look for references to support notability. Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 20:08, 17 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Keep On notability and representation in art collections and significant new concept, theory, or technique for Jan Dunn: A donation to a major gallery or archive does not mean the work is insignificant or the artist is not notable. Donations of work are common ways that major galleries or museums acquire works of art in addition to buying them. Donations have been made to galleries by Australia's most significant and famous artists. Donations are not always accepted, they are often rejected. The same assessment of value, condition, significance is made of donated works and archives as of ones that are bought. If a museum has a donated work in its collection, it has already been assessed and accepted as significant and relevant to that gallery and registered as part of its collection. So if the vases in the NGA or CMAG were donated is not in any way a comment on the notability of that artist and donation is not a value assessment of any artist. The Slide Library of the former Crafts Council of Australia was also a major collection. Not everyone's work was accepted into the slide library. Artists and craftspeople had to photograph their work and submit an application and their work had to be independently assessed as a significant representation of Australian Arts and Crafts. The slide library was used by architects and collectors to commission work for new buildings. It was used to select Australian craft work included in the new Parliament House of Australia built in the 1980s, and now full of Australian art and craft, woodwork, embroidery, furniture. So getting accepted into the slide library meant the work has been accepted into a national collection. Jan Dunn was also known for her technique of Arab lustreware. She studied and learnt the traditional technique then adapted it to her own style and created a modern interpretation of it. She introduced a new concept into Australian pottery. I can keep working on the Jan Dunn article to include more reviews of her work and to support her notability and re-work the article to make this clearer. Please do not make a move to delete it in the meantime as I need time to make these changes.LPascal (talk) 02:48, 23 June 2022 (UTC)LPascal[reply]

The notability tag does not initialize deletion, just notes a problem for discussion. Someone would have to take the article to WP:AFD to start a deletion process. So plenty of time to work on it as far as I can see. Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 03:30, 23 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]