Kathleen Shillam and Leonard Shillam interviewed by Barbara Blackman [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 746419
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Shillam, Kathleen, 1916-2002, interviewee
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1984 Dec. 16
- 5 sound cassettes (ca. 396 min.) ; 1 7/8 ips.
- Summary:
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Kath and Len Shillam discuss their early life, parents and schooling; Kath's father's work in commercial art; enrolment at Art School where they met; fellow pupils; decision to become sculptors; Len's Carnegie Scholarship to London for 2 years; Len's time in London, 1938-39, which was cut short by World War II; work as a chicken farmer; Will Smith; works in public places and collections; exhibitions and competitions; Len's public commissions; casting technique used on Queensland Art Gallery Cultural Centre commission; Len's teaching work at Brisbane College of Art; trip to Europe and Britain in the early 1960s; Society of Sculptors in Brisbane; their home life and Kath's work in public collections.
- Notes:
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- Recorded at Brighton, Queensland on 16 December 1984.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-196252759
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Uncorrected transcript (typescript, 151 leaves) available.
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- Copyright:
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- Until 2054 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1984
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