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"Barry Brickell stoking a miniature clay kiln at the opening of an exhibition at the Brett McDowell Gallery in Dunedin, October 2013. Ian Barry Brickell (26 October 1935 – 23 January 2016) was a New Zealand potter, writer, conservationist and founder of Driving Creek Railway. Biography Born in New Plymouth in 1935, Brickell was the son of Shirley Margaret Wooler and Maurice Crawford Brickell. The family soon moved to Auckland, initially staying in Meadowbank then settling in Devonport on Auckland's north shore. While a student at Takapuna Grammar School, Brickell was introduced to potter Len Castle. He enrolled in a Bachelor of Science Degree at Auckland University College in 1954, completing his studies under the Post Primary Teacher's Bursary Scheme. His first and only teaching appointment was in 1961, at Coromandel District High School. This lasted only a few months. Brickell then became a full-time potter and purchased his first property near the township of Coromandel. In 1974, he purchased the adjacent 60-acre property, where his Driving Creek Railway and Potteries remain today. Brickell was one of the artists featured in Treasures of the Underworld, the New Zealand pavilion exhibition at Seville Expo '92. The exhibition toured to the Netherlands and throughout New Zealand before the works were accessioned for the collection of the National Art Gallery, now held by the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. He wrote several books and small publications, including A New Zealand Potters' Dictionary (1985) and Rails toward the Sky (2011). In 1996, Christine Leov-Lealand published the biography Barry Brickell: A Head of Steam. In 2013 Auckland University Press published the book His Own Steam: The Work of Barry Brickell to coincide with a major touring retrospective of his pottery work, organised by the Dowse Art Museum and featuring 100 of his pieces. Kiln-building Brickell was known for his skill at building kilns. Most of the kilns at Driving Creek Railway were designed and built by Brickell using bricks made on-site from clay sourced on the same property. According to Christine Leov-Lealand's biography, Brickell built his first brick kiln at age seven under the family home in Devonport, which was almost set alight. In 1968, he built a round coal-fired kiln for potter Yvonne Rust in Greymouth; in 1975, he built a kiln for artist Ralph Hotere in Port Chalmers, fired from pine bark recycled from a nearby wharf. In 1982, Brickell was invited to Vanuatu to build a kiln and establish a ceramics programme for young people, and in 1986, he built a wood-fired salt-glaze kiln for the Northern Arizona University Art Gallery. Honours and awards In 1974 Brickell was awarded a QEII Arts Council Grant to build New Zealand's first wood-fired stoneware pottery kiln, which he made with help from students, using bricks from a demolished hotel in the nearby town of Coromandel. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for services to pottery and ceramics, in the 1988 New Year Honours. Death Brickell died at Coromandel on 23 January 2016. Publications * A New Zealand Potter's Dictionary: Techniques and Materials for the South Pacific (Auckland: Reed Methuen, 1985) * Six Spiromorphs (Dunedin: Brett McDowell Gallery, 2010) * Rails toward the Sky: The Story of Driving Creek Railway (Auckland: David Ling Publishing, 2011) * Plastic Memories: Thirty-Eight Years of Storytelling in Clay (Coromandel: Driving Creek Press, 2013) In popular culture Barry Brickell appears in New Zealand Film maker David Sims 2016 documentary 'The Last Fatso - and no maybes'. Sims is working on a documentary on Brickell's life and contribution to society. Works * Works in the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa * Works in the collection of the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery * Works in the collection of Auckland War Memorial Museum * Exhibitions at Brett McDowell Gallery, Dunedin in 2009 and 2012 * Works at Driving Creek Railway * May Smith's 1969 painting From Barry Brickell's Verandah in the Fletcher Trust Collection References * Doreen Blumhardt and Brian Brake, Craft New Zealand: The Art of the Craftsman (Auckland: Reed Publishing, 1981) * Christine Leov-Lealand, Barry Brickell: A Head of Steam (Auckland: Exisle Publishing, 1996) * Helen Schamroth, 100 New Zealand Craft Artists (Auckland: Godwit Press, 1998) * Moyra Elliot and Damian Skinner, Cone Ten Down: Studio Pottery in New Zealand, 1945–1980 (Auckland: David Bateman, 2009) * David Craig & Gregory O'Brien, His Own Steam: The Works of Barry Brickell (Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2013) * Barry Brickell, "The hand is more important than the brain" in Art New Zealand Number 7, Spring 1977 * Barry Brickell, "Tribute to Hone Tuwhare" in New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre, issue 6, September 2008 * Pauline Dawson, "Barry Brickell – Man of steam and clay" in Barry Brickell: Six Spiromorphs (Dunedin: Kilmog Press, 2009) * Andrew Clifford, "Full steam ahead" in NZ Listener, 4 May 2013, pp.36–38 * David Craig, "In search of an indigenous, animotive, anthropomorphic ceramic culture" in Art News New Zealand, Autumn 2013 * Virginia Winder, "Earth and fire" in NZ House & Garden, nd. External links * Driving Creek Railway official website * Barry Brickell: Potter, National Film Unit documentary, 1970 * Cultural Icons interview with Barry Brickell part one and part two * TVNZ interview with Barry Brickell on Good Morning, 19 September 2012 Category:1935 births Category:2016 deaths Category:New Zealand artists Category:New Zealand Officers of the Order of the British Empire Category:University of Auckland alumni Category:New Zealand potters Category:People from New Plymouth Category:People from North Shore, New Zealand Category:People educated at Takapuna Grammar School Category:People from Coromandel Peninsula Category:People associated with the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa "
"Numerous ships with the name Phoenix, for the constellation or the mythical bird, have sailed for the British East India Company (EIC) between 1680 and 1821: Merchant vessels, including East Indiamen * , rated at 380/450 tons burthen (bm), of 90 crew and 30 guns. Made three voyages to Madras, Bengal, Bantam, or China between 1671 and 1680. She was lost off the Isles of Scilly on 11 January 1680 while on her fourth voyage.National Archives: Phoenix (1) accessed 6 December 2014. She made two voyages to Madras, Bengal, Persia, and what is now Indonesia before being lost near Cape Comorin *Phoenix served the EIC between 1685 and 1687.Hackman (2001), p.38. She may have been the armed merchantman Phoenix that assisted the Royal Navy in 1689 at the siege of Derry. * , rated at 400 tons, of 80 crew and 24-30 guns, launched November 1700 for Sir Henry Johnson, Blackwall. Made two voyages before being sold out of EIC service in 1709. * , rated at 400 tons (bm), launched in 1708 by Sir Henry Johnson, Blackwall.Hackman (2001), p.169. She was lost on 13 April 1710 while on her first voyage. * , of 800 tons (bm) and launched in 1785, made six voyages for the EIC between 1786 and 1802. She was sent out to India in 1803 for the local coastal trade.Hackman (2001), p.169-70. * , launched in 1790 by Randall & Brent, Rotherhithe. She made one voyage to Madras and Bengal between 1799 and 1800 as an extra ship (i.e., on short-term charter) for the EIC. She was condemned in 1812. * made six voyages to Madras and Bengal between 1805 and 1819; er registration was cancelled on 25 September 1821 after she was broken up. * was launched in 1810. The EIC chartered her to make one voyage to Madras and Bengal between 1820 and 1821.National Archives: Phoenix (6) accessed 6 December 2014. She then made three voyages transporting convicts to Australia before she was wrecked at Simon's Bay, South Africa, in July 1829. Licensed ships After the EIC lost its monopoly in 1813 on the Britain-East Indies trade, the EIC licensed other vessels to trade with the East Indies. The following three vessels sailed under such licenses, though it does not appear that any of them ever carried a cargo for the EIC. * , of 590 tons (bm), launched on the Thames. She made one voyage transporting convicts to Australia in 1824 and was broken up in 1837. * , of 478 tons (bm), launched in India in 1799 and wrecked on 1 March 1816 on Maranilla Reef while sailing from Havana to Nassau, Bahamas. * , of 404 tons (bm), launched at Philadelphia in 1811, captured and sold as a prize to W. Browne & Co., who retained the name.Hackman (2001), p.305. She was last listed in 1833 with trade Liverpool–Java. See also * List of vessels of the Bombay Marine, and the Bombay and Bengal Pilot Services named Phoenix * Notes, citations, and references Notes Citations References * * * Category:Ships of the British East India Company Category:Age of Sail merchant ships Category:Merchant ships of the United Kingdom "
"Shafter Research Station is an agricultural research station in Shafter in the San Joaquin Valley, within Kern County, California. The station, which was established in 1922, was used by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to research cotton. Initial research at the station focused on growing long- staple cotton, which was used to make airplane wings at the time. By 1925, the researchers had determined that Acala cotton was the highest-quality variety of long-staple cotton; they then developed the "one variety" method of cotton production, in which every California cotton producer would grow Acala cotton. As a result of this research, the state of California enacted the California One Variety Cotton Act, which mandated that California cotton producers could grow only Acala cotton. The law spurred the growth of California's fledgling cotton industry, which now forms a major part of the state's agricultural economy. The success of the "one variety" policy caused the station to earn an international reputation for its research, and procedures developed at the station have been used in the Australian and Israeli cotton industries. The Shafter Research Station was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 17, 1997. See also *California Historical Landmarks in Kern County, California *National Register of Historic Places listings in Kern County, California References 3\. Shafter Research Station Website Background and History Page External links *Official Shafter Research Station website * Category:Agriculture in California Category:Research institutes in California Category:Buildings and structures in Kern County, California Category:Government buildings completed in 1922 Category:Government buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in California Category:National Register of Historic Places in Kern County, California Category:Mission Revival architecture in California Category:Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in California Category:Research stations Category:Agricultural organizations based in the United States "