Victor George Skellern [commonly known as Victor Skellern] was born in Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England on 13 September 1908 and studied at Hanley School of Art in Stoke-on-Trent under E. Woolridge and Percy Lloyd, Burslem School of Art in Burslem, Staffordshire under Gordon M. Forsyth, and the Royal College of Art under Sir William Rothenstein and Profs. Ernest William Tristram and Martin Travers.

Skellern left the RCA in 1933 and in 1934 succeeded J. Goodwin as art director at J. Wedgwood & Sons Ltd., subsequently becoming the company’s chief designer. He remained with Wedgwood until 1965, during which time he produced numerous commemorative wares. He also worked as a painter and stained glass designer.

Skellern’s work was widely exhibited, notably at the ‘British Art in Industry’ exhibition at the Royal Academy, London, in 1935; the Exposition Universelle et Internationale in Brussels in 1935; the Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans le Vie Moderne in Paris in 1937; the New York World’s Fair in 1939-40; and the ‘Britain Can Make It’ exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, in 1946.

Skellern was elected to the National Register of Industrial Art Designers (NRD) in 1936; and and later Fellow of the Society of Industrial Artists and Designers (FSIAD). He was a member of the Society of Staffordshire Artists with whom he also exhibited.

He lived at Barlaston, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, and died on 31 January 1966. His address at the time of his death was given as 1 Lakewood Drive, Barlaston, Staffordshire.

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