Lawrence Daws
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Lawrence Daws(born 1927) is an Australianpainterandprintmaker,who works in the media ofoil,watercolour,drawing,screenprints,etchingsandmonotypes.
In the 1980s he started making computer prints, and was possibly the first established Australian painter to use this medium.
His subjects are oftenlandscapes,includingdeserts,ofTasmanianforests and thetropical rainforestsofQueensland.
Daws grew up on theFleurieu Peninsulain South Australia, and from 1970 until 2010, lived by theGlasshouse MountainsatBeerwahon the edge of a Queensland rainforest, where many of his best-known works were created.[1]
In the 1960s he lived and exhibited in London in solo shows and with other Australians, includingBrett Whiteley.[2]
From 1977 he was a Trustee of theQueensland Art Gallery[3]and was responsible for acquiring some major paintings for the gallery, including a major painting byVictor Pasmore.
A biography of Daws was published in 1982, written byNeville Weston.[4]
Griffith University,Brisbane,andUniversity of the Sunshine Coast,Queenslandhave awarded honorary doctorates to Daws.
In 2016 Lawrence Daws was interviewed in a digital story and oral history for theState Library of Queensland'sJames C Sourris AM Collection.In the interview Daws talks to Bettina MacAulay, a Brisbane Art Valuer about his life, his paintings and computer generated prints, and how his interest in philosophy, literature and psychology has influenced his work.[5]
Exhibitions
[edit]Adelaide Festival, Feb-March 2008 – Major retrospectiveDrawings, Prints, 1947–2007
Collections
[edit]- Art Gallery of NSW[1]
- National Gallery of Victoria[2]
- The Tate,London[3]
- Ipswich Art Gallery[4]
- Exhibition and artist ephemera held by the State Library of Queensland.
References
[edit]- ^Sorensen, Rosemary (16 February 2010)."Lawrence Daws: dreamscapes of an epic journey".The Australian.Sydney: News Ltd.
their Owl Creek house in the nearby Glasshouse Mountains, where many of Daws's best-known works were created
- ^McDonald, John (2007)."Lawrence Daws".STUDIO: Australian Painters on the Nature of Creativity.Photography by R. Ian Lloyd. Singapore: R. Ian Lloyd Productions.ISBN978-981-05-7466-6.
- ^"Artist Biography – Lawrence Daws".Adelaide: Greenhill Galleries. 2005.
- ^Weston, Neville (1982).Lawrence Daws.New Zealand:A.H. and A.W. Reed.ISBN0-589-50355-3.
- ^"Lawrence Daws digital story, educational interview and oral history".State Library of Queensland OneSearch Catalogue.
External links
[edit]- Daws's home page
- Lawrence Daws artist interview: The James C. Sourris AM Collection,John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, 26 February 2016. 6min, 33min and 1:22min version available to view online.
- Portrait of an artist: Lawrence Daws.Portrait of an Artist is an in conversation event series by the State Library of Queensland.
- Artworks Feature: Lawrence Daws(Transcript of one-hour interview), Artworks,ABC Radio National,Sunday 18 May 2008. "One of the grand masters of the Australian art scene" – Julie Copeland.
- Grafico Topico review of Lawrence Daws 1999 exhibition
- Lawrence Daws digital story,State Library of Queensland. Part of theJohnstone Gallery digital stories and oral histories collection
- Portrait of an Artist: Lawrence Daws - James C. Sourris AM Collection of Artist Interviews,State Library of Queensland
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