Barry Brickell

Ian Barry Brickell was "a New Zealand potter, writer and conservationist. He enrolled in a Bachelor of Science Degree at The University of Auckland in 1954. After completing his studies under the Post Primary Teacher's Bursary Scheme, Brickell established himself in the Coromandel in 1962 to teach at the local high school. But by the end of the year, he recognised that teaching was not for him. Instead he threw himself into full-time ceramics production, and the development of a narrow gauge railway on the property [at Driving Creek] to help him shift clay, and his sculptural pots, between his studio and the kiln."

Cited from University of Auckland Art Collection website.

See also interview and obituary on Radio New Zealand and National Film Unit footage from 1970 hosted by Te Ara Encyclopaedia of New Zealand.