Royce McGlashen

In 1966, McGlashen began a five-year apprenticeship with Jack Laird at Waimea Pottery.^[1] He moved to Australia where he worked at Montville Pottery in Queensland. In 1974, he travelled to South Africa and then on to England, working at Le Dieu Pottery in Norwich.^[4] He returned to New Zealand in 1975. In 1989, he began designing for Temuka Pottery.^[1]

In 1983 and 1987, McGlashen won Merit Awards at the Fletcher Brownbuilt Pottery Awards.^[5] In the 1989 New Year Honours, he was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to pottery.^[1][6]