Miss Jessamine Stella Bray
Other names: Mrs Jessamine Dawe
Born 1904
Active: 1925 - 1938
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor, pottery modeller, teacher of pottery
Born in West ham, Essex. She was the daughter of Walter John Bray (born c.1859 in Lambeth), surveyor. Jessamine married Robert Dawe in Chelsea in 1938. Bray worked with the sculptor and modeller Sybil V. Williams from the mid-1920s, they are associated with the Dulwich Pottery. They showed pottery statuettes at the Beaux Arts Gallery, Bruton Place, 1929; the Graves Gallery, Sloane Street, 1933; and the Connell Galleries, Conduit Street, 1935.
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1927
Exhibited once, one work (a pottery figure of a 'Breton Market Woman')
Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Annual Exhibition, 1861-1951
1929
Institutional and Business Connections
Teacher at Camberwell School of Art
August 1925 - June 1938
Listed as a teacher of day and evening classes in pottery. Bray taught the evening class only from 1934-1935 onwards.
Personal and Professional Connections
Collaborated with Sybil V. Williams
1929 (Circa) - 1935 (Circa)
Williams and Bray modelled pottery figures and statuettes, which they jointly exhibited between 1929-35. They are associated with the Dulwich Pottery.
Sources
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
2009
RG14PN9401 RG78PN506 RD188 SD2 ED28 SN58
England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915
2006
Name: Jessamine Stella Bray
Year of Registration: 1904
Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar
District: West Ham
County: Essex, Greater London
Volume: 4a
Page: 220
England & Wales, FreeBMD Marriage Index, 1916-2005
2006
Name: Jessamine S Bray
Spouse Surname: Dawe
Date of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep 1938
Registration district: Chelsea
Registration county (inferred): Middlesex
Volume Number: 1a
Page Number: 1287
The Times Digital Archive 1785-1985
2008
he Times, Saturday, Nov 23, 1929; pg. 10; Issue 45368; col D
Art Exhibitions English Pottery
Category: Arts and Entertainment AND The Times, Friday, May 19, 1933; pg. 12; Issue 46448; col C
Graves Gallery
Category: Arts and Entertainment AND The Times, Tuesday, Nov 26, 1935; pg. 12; Issue 47231; col C
Pictures By Hire Purchase A Second Exhibition
Category: Arts and Entertainment
Citing this record
'Miss Jessamine Stella Bray', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib4_1253880560, accessed 25 Mar 2023]
