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| Catherine Maude WORMERSLEY (1886 - 1971) |
| dressmaker, talented artist, pottery |
| Children | Self + Spouses | Parents | Grandparents | Greatgrandparents |
| Catherine Maude WORMERSLEY (1886 - 1971) + John (Jack) Francis Benedict O'REILLY (1881 - 1940) |
George Byfield Boyfield WORMERSLEY (1851 - 1887) | Boyfield WORMERSLEY (1801 - ) | John WORMERSLEY WORMSLEY (1761 - 1844) | |
| Sarah PAGET (1762 - 1822) | ||||
| Elizabeth CUMMINS ( - 1896) | ||||
| Mary Elizabeth HARRISON ( - 1897) | James HARRISON | |||
| Hannah SWINBOURNE | ||||
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| Pic S1. Presentation to Queen |
| b. 1886 at Manilla, New South Wales, Australia |
| m. 26 May 1913 John (Jack) Francis Benedict O'REILLY (1881 - 1940) at Lewisham, New South Wales, Australia |
| d. 1971 at Brisbane, Queensland, Australia aged 85 |
| Parents: |
| George Byfield Boyfield WORMERSLEY (1851 - 1887) |
| Mary Elizabeth HARRISON ( - 1897) |
| Step Parents: |
| Bernard Patrick HURLEY (1855 - ) |
| Events in Catherine Maude WORMERSLEY (1886 - 1971)'s life | |||||
| Date | Age | Event | Place | Notes | Src |
| 1886 | Catherine Maude WORMERSLEY was born | Manilla, New South Wales, Australia | 34351/1886 | ||
| 31 Aug 1887 | 1 | Death of father George Byfield Boyfield WORMERSLEY (aged 36) | Queensland, Australia | 1887/C263 | |
| 1897 | 11 | Death of mother Mary Elizabeth HARRISON | Queensland, Australia | 1897/C2154 | |
| 26 May 1913 | 27 | Married John (Jack) Francis Benedict O'REILLY (aged 32) | Lewisham, New South Wales, Australia | Note 1 | |
| 1919 | 33 | Electoral Roll | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia | Wickham Terrace | |
| 1925 | 39 | Electoral Roll | Hendra, Queensland, Australia | Chermside St | |
| 1936 | 50 | Electoral Roll | Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia | 48 Webster St | |
| 10 Sep 1940 | 54 | Death of husband John (Jack) Francis Benedict O'REILLY (aged 59) | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | 1940/9223 Jno Fran Oreilly | |
| 1949 | 63 | Electoral Roll | Ascot, Queensland, Australia | 146 Yabba St | |
| 1954 | 68 | Electoral Roll | Ascot, Queensland, Australia | 146 Yabba St | |
| 1971 | 85 | Catherine Maude WORMERSLEY died | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia | 1971/B26741 | |
| 1971 | 85 | Burial | Pinaroo, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia | Note 2 | |
| Note 1: 5895/1913, Petersham - have certificate |
| Note 2: 'Oreilly Catherine Maud' is the name given in the index. |
| Personal Notes: |
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No children.
Newspaper article The Daily News (Perth) 31 Jan 1936 " TALENTED ARTIST IN PERTH Specialises in Pottery and Modelling Mrs. J. F, O'Reilly, wife of the new superintendent engineer to the P.M.G's Department, in Perth, who has been transferred from Melbourne, is a talented artist. She was born in New South Wales, and educated in Rockhampton and Brisbane. She began her studies in art at the Art School in Brisbane, and later studied at the Royal College of Art, South Kensington. Mrs. O'Reilly is interested in all types of art, but specialises in pottery and modelling, and she prefers water colors to oils. She was the first Australian to have a model of an Australian bird accepted in the Sculpture section of the Royal, Academy, London (Burlington House)— a model of a kookaburra executed in Ceramic art. Another honor bestowed upon her was the sending of examples of her work by the Queensland Government to the Wembley Exhibition, London, in 1925 1926. In 1926, when Mrs. O'Reilly was in London, she had 3cwt. of three different kinds of Australian clay sent to London for her own use. She experimented there with suitable glazes to fit the bodies for prevention of minor defects, such as crazing and pin-holes. In appreciation of the quality of her work, the Agent-General for Queens land arranged an exhibition of her pottery containing vases, bowls, statu ettes, etc., at the offices of the Agent General, the Strand, London. Speaking of her work, Mrs. O'Reilly said, "I concentrate, on good form and proportion with good quality glazes in suitable and subtle colorings, rather than decorations, for my vases and bowls, for I always argue, why put flowers on the exterior of a vase or bowl, which is later filled with flowers?" 'While in London, the artist studied all the different periods of pottery at the National Museum, London, and she was particularly interested in the won derful Chinese Ming and Sung pot tery. Of this wonderful Chinese pot tery, the Victoria and Albert Museum has many priceless examples. A replica of her kookaburra in the Royal Academy was secured by the Commonwealth Government of Aus tralia to be placed in the Government House at Canberra. Lived in Every State Mrs. O'Reilly has lived in every State in Australia, and for the past eight years in Melbourne. In Melbourne she attended out-door sketching excursions every week. A group of fifteen or twenty art students would set off on Saturdays for the studio home of one of Australia's, leading artists, Mr. John Rowell, at Bayswater, about twenty-five miles from Melbourne. At these outings each student would receive an in dividual criticism of his or her work from Mr. Rowell, which was very helpful and much appreciated. Mrs. O'Reilly spoke of the various methods used in making pottery. The statuettes, she said, are painted with an underglaze paint on the biscuit (so-called after the clay has been once fired), then clear-glazed and returned, to the kiln for a second firing. But, she said, pottery and statuette work was a gamble, as sometimes one would create a large number or articles, experimenting with glazes and heat many times before a perfect specimen was turned out. She has not been in terested in the commercial side of her work, but has concentrated on quality and has created mostly only one piece of each kind. Mrs. O'Reilly is contemplating an other trip abroad next year, and while in London, hopes to secure an electric kiln to have installed in her home in Perth. " A very talented ceramicist - glazing. Kookaburra and naked lady. Aricle in book has birthplace as Manilla, NSW Step-sister of Bernard. Therefore Bernard or Mary married twice. O'REILLY, Maud Australia b.1886 d.1971 Bowl 1926 Earthenware, thrown shallow bowl with running mottled blue and blue/green glaze 7.5 x 30.5cm (diam) Acc. 1987.140 Purchased 1987 O'REILLY, Maud Australia b.1886 d.1971 Double handled vase1924 Hand-built white earthenware clay shouldered vase with bulging cylindrical neck and handles 25.5 x 18cm (diam.) Acc. 1988.066 Gift of Mr E.B. & Mrs M.E. Whitehouse 1988 Additional information (including Note on art work and artist) Maud O'Reilly was a student with L.J. Harvey from c.1923 and exhibited her work at a Royal National Agricultural (RNA) Exhibition. In 1925 she and her husband travelled to England where she continued her interest in ceramics with study at the Royal College of Art and the London County Council School of Art Studies. Her training there included throwing and glazing. She was keenly interested in studying historic ceramics in London museums, especially Chinese ceramics of the Ming and Sung eras. The ceramics she produced (she had 3 cwt. of Queensland clay sent over for her use) had simple profiles and sometimes vestigal dragon motif handles but principally relied on the superb glazes for their effect. A case of her work (including the kookaburra model featured in the 'L.J. Harvey and his School' exhibition of 1983) was displayed in the Women Artist Society Exhibition of 1926. 'Kookaburra' (which was further exhibited in the 1926 Royal Academy Exhibition) and several other Maud O'Reilly ceramics were also exhibited at the Royal Queensland Art Society in November 1926. She and her husband returned from England to Melbourne and then moved to Perth. Maud O'Reilly helped to establish the West Australian Women Painters' and Applied Arts Society in Perth. On her husband's death she retired to Queensland. Maud O'Reilly was one of very few students to progress beyond the Harvey School style. 'Double handled vase' 1924 was made as a Harvey School exercise (no. 12). It is a very fine example of its kind, while providing a useful document of Harvey's teaching methods. O'REILLY, Maud Australia b.1886 d.1971 Vase1926 Earthenware thrown baluster shape with deep plum Chun type glaze 28.5 x 12.5cm (diam.) Acc. 1988.067 Gift of Mr E.B. & Mrs M.E. Whitehouse 1988 |