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Victorian Sculptors' Society
The Victorian Sculptors' Society was an arts organisation formed in Victoria, Australia in 1948. History The society had two predecessors: *The Yarra Sculptors' Society was founded in 1898 by Margaret Baskerville and her husband Douglas Richardson. Prominent members included Web Gilbert, William Scurry, and wood carvers H. F. Dunne and Mortimer Godfrey, who created the Gog and Magog figures attending the clock in the Royal Arcade. *In 1933 the Sculptors' Society of Australia was founded by Leslie Bowles, Ola Cohn, Wallace Anderson and Orlando Dutton. Bowles, as honorary secretary, was diligent in soliciting contracts for Australian sculptors on the occasions of Melbourne's centenary and memorials to George V. In 1948 the Victorian Sculptors' Society was founded. They organised a special exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria in 1958, and later a travelling exhibition, visiting country centres. The society held exhibitions at the Victorian Artists Society (VAS) galler ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Age
''The Age'' is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854. Owned and published by Nine Entertainment, ''The Age'' primarily serves Victoria (Australia), Victoria, but copies also sell in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and southern New South Wales. It is delivered both in print and digital formats. The newspaper shares some articles with its sister newspaper ''The Sydney Morning Herald''. ''The Age'' is considered a newspaper of record for Australia, and has variously been known for its investigative reporting, with its journalists having won dozens of Walkley Awards, Australia's most prestigious journalism prize. , ''The Age'' had a monthly readership of 5.321 million. History Foundation ''The Age'' was founded by three Melbourne businessmen: brothers John and Henry Cooke (who had arrived from New Zealand in the 1840s) and Walter Powell. The first edition appeared on 17 October 1854. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1934 Centenary Of Melbourne
The Melbourne Centenary was a 1934 centennial celebration of the founding of the city of Melbourne, Australia. As Victoria reeled from the severe economic and social fracturing of the Great Depression, its Centenary celebrated progress and community cohesion. Held between October 1934 and June 1935, the Centenary in fact celebrated two 'foundation' events, firstly commemorating Edward Henty's Portland settlement on 19 November 1834 as the first white settlement in what would later become the state of Victoria, then John Batman's pronouncement of the area upstream of the Yarra River as 'the place for a village', taken as the city's foundation, on 8 June 1835. John Batman was promoted as an heroic icon in an effort to embody the rewarding aspects of self-improvement, and was given more prominence as a founding father rather than John Pascoe Fawkner, whose advance party had in fact settled the site of the city where the Customs House is now located before Batman's party could r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1948 Establishments In Australia
Events January * January 1 ** The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is inaugurated. ** The Constitution of New Jersey (later subject to amendment) goes into effect. ** The railways of Britain are nationalized, to form British Railways. * January 4 – Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom, becoming an independent republic, named the ''Union of Burma'', with Sao Shwe Thaik as its first President, and U Nu its first Prime Minister. * January 5 ** Warner Brothers shows the first color newsreel (''Tournament of Roses Parade'' and the ''Rose Bowl Game''). ** The first Kinsey Reports, Kinsey Report, ''Sexual Behavior in the Human Male'', is published in the United States. * January 7 – Mantell UFO incident: Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of an unidentified flying object. * January 12 – Mahatma Gandhi begins his fast-unto-death in Delhi, to stop communal violence during the Partition of India. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lenton Parr
Thomas Lenton Parr AM (11 September 1924 – 8 August 2003) was an Australian sculptor and teacher . Sculptor Born in East Coburg, Victoria, Lenton Parr spent eight years in the Royal Australian Air Force (Svc No. A33223) before enrolling to study sculpture at the Royal Melbourne Technical College (now RMIT University), then worked in England 1955–57 as an assistant to Henry Moore. There he was influenced by Reg Butler and Eduardo Paolozzi to work with enamelled steel structures, which was to become his lifelong specialty. After his return to Melbourne he showed at Peter Bray Gallery in 1957, and embarked on a career in art education. Art educator Parr was Head of Sculpture at RMIT (1964–66), then Head of Prahran College of Technology in a $1.5 million building completed as he arrived. He appointed staff who became influential Australian art and was held in high esteem by staff, but his fine art philosophy clashed with the vocationally-oriented aims of the College Princip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Ewers
Raymond Boultwood Ewers (20 August 1917 – 5 June 1998) was an Australian sculptor,Australian War Memorial: https://www.awm.gov.au/people/artist_profiles/ewers.asp best known for his sculpture ''Australian Serviceman'' in the Australian War Memorial sculpture garden in Melbourne.Australian War Memorial: Collection Record, ID ART40995'. Retrieved 2008-04-25. Ewers was born in Wyalong, New South Wales. He worked as a jackaroo before he entered the Working Men's College in Melbourne (nowadays the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology), where he studied from 1936 to 1940. William Leslie Bowles chose him as his assistant. During World War II, Ewers enlisted as a sapper in the Australian Imperial Force in 1941. Upon recommendation by Bowles, he was transferred and made an official war artist with the rank of lieutenant. From 1943 until 1958, Ewers produced 32 dioramas depicting war scenes. He also worked together with Bowles on the statues of King George V and of John Monash, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Hammond (sculptor)
Stanley James Hammond (1 August 1913 – 2000) was an Australian sculptor. He was responsible for some of Australia's most enduring monuments. History Hammond was born in Trentham, Victoria He studied art at Daylesford Secondary College, Daylesford Technical School and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) and worked as an assistant to Orlando Dutton between 1930 and 1932, then with Paul Montford 1933 to 1936. In 1935 he entered and won a design competition for a Pioneer Miners' memorial at Stawell, Victoria and turned professional in 1936. He assisted Paul Montford in his work on the Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne. After WWII Hammond worked with George Allen (sculptor), George Allen, Australian official war artists#Second World War, war artist in WWII, and head of RMIT's sculpture department on the Shrine's development. He worked with Allen on the bluestone ''Fallen Warrior'' and a ten-foot (3 m) freestone sculpture for the Russell Street telephone exchange. Teachi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
