Topographical painter and naval officer on the British Antarctic expedition 1839 to 1843. His illustrations of the voyage in J. Ross's 'Voyage of Discovery and ...
Queensland-born Lyndon Davis was taught the stories of the South-East Queensland region by his grandmother, who also raised him. His acrylic on canvas paintings depict ...
Davis was a painter with abilities in landscape, nature painting, portraiture and murals. He was celebrated as a drawing master with particular interests in the ...
With a career spanning three decades, Davis was one of Australia's pre-eminent artists, a sculptor who regularly exhibited in Australia and overseas, particularly Japan and ...
Trained in engineering, Davis studied sculpture in London. Davis was an innovator in model-making for architects, landscape planners, designers and engineers. He later studied design ...
Davis founded the Decor Corporation in Melbourne in 1958, a specialist designing and manufacturing firm specialising in homewares. Employing a number of Australian industrial designers, ...
Lou Christopher Dawe was a woodworker. He made fretwork picture frames around 1906 from driftwood at Dawesville, Western Australia. Dawe established the Pleasant Grove Fish ...