Lawrence Daws

Lawrence Daws (born 1927) is an Australian painter and printmaker, who works in the media of watercolour, drawing, screenprints, etchings and monotypes.

In the 1980s he started making computer prints, and was possibly the first established Australian painter to use this medium.

His subjects are often landscapes, including deserts, of Tasmanian forests and the tropical rainforests of Queensland.

Daws grew up on the Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia, and from 1970 until 2010, lived by the Glasshouse Mountains at Beerwah on the edge of a Queensland rainforest, where many of his best-known works were created.[1]

In the 1960s lived and exhibited in London in solo shows and with other Australians, including Brett Whiteley.[2]

From 1977 he was a Trustee of the Queensland Art Gallery[3] and was responsible for acquiring some major paintings for the gallery, including a major painting by Victor Pasmore.

A biography of Daws was published in 1982, written by Neville Weston.[4]

Griffith University, Brisbane, and University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland have awarded honorary doctorates to Daws.

Recent Shows and Work

Adelaide Festival, Feb-March 2008 - Major retrospective Drawings, Prints, 1947–2007

References

  1. ↑ 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
  2. ↑ McDonald, John. "Lawrence Daws". STUDIO: Australian Painters on the Nature of Creativity. Photography by R. Ian Lloyd. Singapore: R. Ian Lloyd Productions. ISBN 978-981-05-7466-6.
  3. ↑ "Artist Biography - Lawrence Daws". Adelaide: Greenhill Galleries. 2005.
  4. ↑ Weston, Neville (1982). Lawrence Daws. New Zealand: A.H. and A.W. Reed. ISBN 0-589-50355-3.

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