William Arthur Salmon (9 April 1928 – 27 October 2018), generally known as Bill Salmon, was an Australian painter.
Bill was born in
Geelong, Victoria
Geelong ( ) (Wathawurrung: ''Djilang''/''Djalang'') is a port city in the southeastern Australian state of Victoria, located at the eastern end of Corio Bay (the smaller western portion of Port Phillip Bay) and the left bank of Barwon River, a ...
the son of John Walter Salmon (died 20 September 1956) and his wife Clarice Bennett Salmon (née Taylor) of
Camperdown and studied at the
Swinburne Technical College
Swinburne University of Technology (often simply called Swinburne) is a public research university based in Melbourne, Australia. It was founded in 1908 as the Eastern Suburbs Technical College by George Swinburne to serve those without access ...
1946–1949 and the
George Bell School in
Melbourne then the
Slade School of Art in London 1950–1952.
He taught art at the
South Australian School of Arts and Crafts 1953–1957, during which time he painted a mural of
St. Francis of Assisi for the Assisi Hall,
Campbelltown, and
East Sydney Technical College 1959–1962.
He appeared regularly (as "Apelles") in the Arts segment of the
Argonauts' Club children's programme on
ABC radio from 1963, succeeding
Jeffrey Smart ("Phidias"), and has appeared on television interviewing artists including
Clifton Pugh
Clifton Ernest Pugh AO, (17 December 1924 – 14 October 1990) was an Australian artist and three-time winner of Australia's Archibald Prize. One of Australia's most renowned and successful painters, Pugh was strongly influenced by German Expr ...
,
Sidney Nolan
Sir Sidney Robert Nolan (22 April 191728 November 1992) was one of Australia's leading artists of the 20th century. Working in a wide variety of mediums, his oeuvre is among the most diverse and prolific in all of modern art. He is best known ...
and
Roland Wakelin.
He also appeared as the Australian host of
Transworld Top Team on
ABC TV from 1967 to 1968.
He painted a portrait of poet
Charles Rischbieth Jury
Charles Rischbieth Jury (13 September 1893 – 22 August 1958), generally known by his initials or full name, was a poet and academic in Adelaide, South Australia, who spent much of his working life in Europe.
History
Charles was born in Glenel ...
held by
Elspeth Ballantyne.
[Barbara Wall, 'Jury, Charles Rischbieth (1893–1958)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/jury-charles-rischbieth-10653/text18931, published first in hardcopy 1996, accessed online 20 August 2015.]
References
Sources
*''Encyclopedia of Australian Art'' Alan McCulloch,Hutchison of London, 1968
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Australian painters
1928 births
2018 deaths
Australian mid-20th century modern painters