Kym Bonython interviewed by Rob Linn for the Mortlock Library collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 3279565
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Bonython, Kym, 1920-2011, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 2004 Sept. 22
- 3 digital audio tapes (ca. 171 min.)
- Series:
- Mortlock Library collection.
- Summary:
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Kym Bonython, author and art dealer, talks about his family background; his parents; his siblings; his education; how his interest in the arts began; his early life; his passion for speedway and its origins; the 1930s in Adelaide; his motor vehicles and interest in motorbikes; Brian Monk (Monkton); Fred Habib's gymnasium; Leo Demetril; Tiger Higgins; Billy Misky; Hughie Whitman; Bob King; R.M. Williams; Bill Hambly-Clark; his attitude to the outbreak of the Second World War and why he joined up; Tony Abbott; leaving accountancy for call up and eventually being taken into RAAF; his subsequent war training and service; the effects of the war and his desire not to continue accountancy; farming at Mount Pleasant (1946); Frank Macrow; his marriage after returning from Milne Bay; his memories of Nowra; the purchase of the farm; the St Magnus property and achievements; his investment in an art collection; putting the Merz collection together; his divorce.
Bonython discusses his record shop in Bowman's Arcade; his music and recent CD; his radio show which began in 1937; his role promoting speedway; his early entrepreneurial activities; the Commodore Music Shop; Jazz musicians eg. Dave Brubeck, Charlie Byrd; his part in Aztec Services; his part in Austereo; Paul Thompson; Bill McColl and Red Norveaux trio; the Adelaide Festival of Arts; his feelings about his entrepreneurial activities; the decision to go to Sydney; his move into commercial art sales and why he established a gallery in Adelaide; his relationships with artists; Sidney Nolan; his memories of a 'This is Your Life' programme; his approach to life and work; his entrepreneurial activities; the reasons why he returned to running a Sydney gallery; his second marriage (1957); the incapacity of advancing years and why he had to give up motor bike and the fate of the bike; his involvement with South Australia's Jubilee 150 and its benefits; the Australian Council for the Arts; Philip Adams, Barry Jones, Bruce Beresford and some of the projects; the Board's concerns; Peter Coleman.
- Notes:
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- Interview conducted in association with the National Library of Australia and J.D. Somerville Oral History Collection, Mortlock Library of South Australiana.
- Recorded on Sept. 22, 2004 at North Adelaide, S. Aust.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (5 p.) and uncorrected transcript (typescript, 59 leaves)
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- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 2004
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