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Donald Friend
Donald Stuart Leslie Friend (6 February 1915 – 16 August 1989) was an Australian artist and diarist who lived much of his life overseas. He has been the subject of controversy since the posthumous publication of diaries in which he wrote of sexual relationships with boys. Early life Born in Sydney, Friend grew up in the artistic circle of his bohemian mother and showed early talent both as an artist and as a writer. He studied with Sydney Long (1931) and Antonio Dattilo Rubbo (1934–1935), and later in London (1936–1937) at the Westminster School of Art with Mark Gertler and Bernard Meninsky. During World War II he served as a gunner with the AIF, and while stationed at Albury began a friendship with Russell Drysdale, which led to their joint discovery of Hill End, a quasi-abandoned gold mining village near Bathurst, New South Wales, which in the 1950s became something of an artists' colony. He also served as an official war artist in Labuan and Balikpapan in 1945. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Lawrence
Michel Lawrence (born 1948) is an Australian writer, advertising creative director, portrait photographer and documentary director. He also produced two photographic books, ''Framed: Photographs of Australian Artists'' and ''All of Us'', documenting the multicultural makeup of Australia. Early life and education Lawrence matriculated from Camberwell Grammar School in Melbourne and enrolled at La Trobe University in its first year, becoming the foundation editor of the student newspaper '' Rabelais''. Career On leaving university, Lawrence began work as a journalist at the national daily newspaper, ''The Australian''. At News Ltd, Lawrence worked for the Sunday Australian and The Sunday Telegraph as a political columnist covering both state and federal politics. After leaving The Australian in 1976, he founded and edited Australia's first skateboard magazineSlicks Lawrence was recruited to manage Australian electric folk group, The Bushwackers, departing in 1976 with the band fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merioola Group
The Merioola Group, also known as the Sydney Charm School, was a group of Australian artists active in Sydney during the 1940s and early 1950s. The group was named after ''Merioola'', a Woollahra mansion where many of its members lived. Merioola house The group took its name from ''Merioola'', a Victorian-era mansion converted into a boarding house in the Sydney suburb of Woollahra, managed from 1941 by Chica Edgeworth Lowe. Lowe consciously encouraged artists, dancers, writers and theatre people to take up residence, forming the bohemian artistic centre of Sydney in the immediate post-war years. Tenants included the European-born and trained artists Arthur Fleischmann (sculptor), Roland Strasser, Peter Kaiser, Michael Kmit and George de Olszanski. Others, such as Donald Friend, Edgar Ritchard (artist and costume designer), Loudon Sainthill (later to become one of the most prominent theatre designers of the 20th century) and his life partner Harry Tatlock Miller (writer, cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
