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Len Castle (Leonard Ramsay Castle) was born on 23 December, 1924 in Auckland, New Zealand, is a New Zealand potter (1924–2011). Discover Len Castle's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 86 years old?

Popular As Leonard Ramsay Castle
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Age 86 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 23 December 1924
Birthday 23 December
Birthplace Auckland, New Zealand
Date of death 29 September, 2011
Died Place N/A
Nationality New Zealand

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1924

Leonard Ramsay Castle (23 December 1924 – 29 September 2011) was a New Zealand potter.

Born in Auckland on 23 December 1924, Castle was educated at Mount Albert Grammar School.

1947

He went on to study at Auckland University College, graduating Bachelor of Science in 1947, and trained as a secondary school teacher at Auckland Teachers' Training College.

After a period as a science teacher at Mount Albert Grammar School, he took a lecturing position at Auckland Teachers' College.

Castle began making his first pottery in 1947 and took night classes with Robert Nettleton Field at Avondale College, Auckland.

1950

In the early 1950s, Castle met Theo Schoon and Schoon decorated the surfaces of pots thrown and fired by Castle.

1956

In 1956, he moved to St Ives, Cornwall for a year to work with Bernard Leach and became a full-time potter in 1963.

The same year he helped establish the New Zealand Society of Potters.

1959

In 1959, Castle married Ruth Main.

The couple had one child, but later divorced.

Castle's first experience of pottery was as a 10-year-old, seeing Olive Jones demonstrating at the Auckland Easter Show.

1960

In the 1960s Schoon introduced him to the geothermal areas of the central North Island of New Zealand.

Castle has continued to photograph this landscape area, which is also reflected in his pottery.

In the early 1960s, Castle had an architecturally designed house built in the bush of the Waitākere Ranges at 20 Tawini Road, Titirangi, with a kiln and rail system out the back, and a low basement which allowed pottery to be exhibited.

Turning room for tour buses was provided in the street outside.

The Boyes family, which bought the house, demolished the kiln; however, the bricks from it form the paving round the lower part of the house, and shards from discarded pottery works can still be found amongst the clay soil of the bush behind.

1966

Castle studied pottery in Japan, Korea and China in 1966–67.

He named Shoji Hamada as one of his influences.

1972

Castle built a new house in South Titirangi with a larger kiln and even more extensive railway to serve it in 1972–73, which is still operating.

1986

In the 1986 Queen's Birthday Honours, Castle was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for services to pottery.

1989

In 1989, along with a number of other New Zealand ceramic and glass artists, he was commissioned to supply work for the exhibition Treasures of the Underworld for the New Zealand pavilion at the World Expo at Seville in 1991.

This work is now in the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.

1990

Four years later, he was awarded the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal.

2003

In 2003, Castle received an Icon award from the New Zealand Arts Foundation.

The book Len Castle: Potter, published by Ron Sang Publishing, won a 2003 Montana New Zealand Book Award for non-fiction.

Six years later, Lopdell House Gallery's Making the Molecules Dance won the Montana New Zealand Book Award for best illustrative non-fiction.

2004

Castle was appointed as a Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2004 New Year Honours, for services to pottery.

2009

In 2009, he declined redesignation as a Knight Companion when the New Zealand government restored titular honours.

2011

Castle died on 29 September 2011.