June Carney b.

  • Designer (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect)
June Carney was an interior designer, design retailer, illustrator. She is the daughter of the designers and retailers Clive and Edna Carney. Carney also provided the illustrations for Clive Carney's first 1950 book, "Furnishing Art and Practice". She studied at East Sydney Technical College, travelled in the USA and Europe and returned to work in her family's firm Artistry with studios in Sydney and Melbourne.

June Carney [later Steglick], daughter of Clive Carney, trained in design at the Sydney Technical College (ca.1944) and had a high design profile in Sydney in the 1950s. Her travels to the USA and Europe were reported extensively in the social pages in the mid-1950s. After the death of her father in 1969, her career appears to have languished. Resident in Sydney, she declined an interview for the SIDA history project in 2013. Some of her work is illustrated in her father’s publications.

Clive Carney made a significant contribution to interior decoration and design in Australia through his generously illustrated books and a series of radio talks on 2FC in the 1930s and his 1950 book Furnishing. Art and Practice establishes the Carneys as important figures in the development of the discipline.

Clive Carney. Furnishing. Art and Practice. Oxford University Press, 1950. (The dust cover of this book states “This is the first comprehensive book on furnishing to be published in Australia.”) Line drawings by June Carney, ASTC [Associate, Sydney Technical College].

Clive Carney. Impact of Design. Lawson Press, 1959. Foreword by Walter Bunning, Appreciation by Florence Taylor.

Clive. Carney. International Interiors and Design. Angus and Robertson, 1959.

Writers:

Michael Bogle
Date written:
2018
Last updated:
2018