Following a period of working and exhibiting in NZ, for an exhibition at Manawatu Art Gallery in the early 1980s called, Still Life is Still Alive she was asked "to provide a large number of pottery vessels in the style of Morandi so that students and members of the public could be encouraged to draw and paint from them in the gallery space."
In her work one can find allusions to anything from Diego Velázquez, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani and Constantin Brâncuși to the famous earthenware depiction of the Venus of Willendorf.
[4] In 1992 she was commissioned to produce work for the Treasures of the Underworld exhibition that formed part of the New Zealand Pavilion at the Seville Expo '92.
After much hesitation and after reading a great many books, I decided the only way I could tackle the subject was by treating it as an unfolding story of the "first Voyage".
[6] Ann Verdcourt was the winner of the 'Non-functional' award for her work Thoughts of Vegetation in the New Zealand Society of Potters exhibition at the Royal Easter Show in 1995.