Hi Every one,
Have been so busy studying and so I thought I would add another artist while I am thinking what I need to do for assignments in Photography/Imaging. Have to take 28 photos hardly started. So back to the artist for the night, Sybil Craig
Sybil Mary Frances Craig (1901-1989), artist, was born on 18 November 1901 at Southgate, London, only child of Australian-born parents Matthew Francis Craig, architect and surveyor, and his wife Winifred Frances, née Major.
The family returned to Melbourne and Sybil was educated at a small St Kilda school. She recalled a childhood in a suburban bohemian household’ frequented by musicians and artists.
The Craigs resided first at Brighton, and after 1914 at Caulfield, in a house designed by Sybil’s father, which remained her home for the rest of her life. In 1920 she began private art tuition with John Shirlow. She then studied (1924-31) at the National Gallery of Victoria’s school of painting.
He was a foundation member of the New Melbourne Art Club and, during the 1930s and 1940s, exhibited with the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors, the Victorian Artists Society.
During 1936 and 1951 she maintained a Collins Street studio; Many seascapes reflected the time she spent at the family’s beach house at Canadian Bay on the Mornington Peninsula.
In March 1945 Craig became an official war artist, commissioned by the Australian War Memorial (under pressure to appoint modernist artists) to record work at the Commonwealth Explosives Factory at Maribyrnong. Her admiration for women munitions workers is evident in the seventy-nine works held by the AWM.
She died on 15 September 1989 at Surrey Hills and was buried in St Kilda cemetery.
Have been so busy studying and so I thought I would add another artist while I am thinking what I need to do for assignments in Photography/Imaging. Have to take 28 photos hardly started. So back to the artist for the night, Sybil Craig
Sybil Mary Frances Craig (1901-1989), artist, was born on 18 November 1901 at Southgate, London, only child of Australian-born parents Matthew Francis Craig, architect and surveyor, and his wife Winifred Frances, née Major.
The family returned to Melbourne and Sybil was educated at a small St Kilda school. She recalled a childhood in a suburban bohemian household’ frequented by musicians and artists.
The Craigs resided first at Brighton, and after 1914 at Caulfield, in a house designed by Sybil’s father, which remained her home for the rest of her life. In 1920 she began private art tuition with John Shirlow. She then studied (1924-31) at the National Gallery of Victoria’s school of painting.
He was a foundation member of the New Melbourne Art Club and, during the 1930s and 1940s, exhibited with the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors, the Victorian Artists Society.
During 1936 and 1951 she maintained a Collins Street studio; Many seascapes reflected the time she spent at the family’s beach house at Canadian Bay on the Mornington Peninsula.
In March 1945 Craig became an official war artist, commissioned by the Australian War Memorial (under pressure to appoint modernist artists) to record work at the Commonwealth Explosives Factory at Maribyrnong. Her admiration for women munitions workers is evident in the seventy-nine works held by the AWM.
She died on 15 September 1989 at Surrey Hills and was buried in St Kilda cemetery.
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