Discovering Daphne Mayo（原创）

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她是出生于昆士兰的澳洲著名女雕刻家，曾在UQ工作过，著名雕刻作品中有我们大家熟悉的Brisbane City Hall 大钟下面的 The Progress of Civilization 和位于 Brisbane’s Anzac Square墙壁上的The Queensland Women’s WarMemorial.

我们曾从这两个雕刻下面经过很多次，却从来没有停下脚步来仔细看看和想想它们的来历，也许你从未想到过这样的作品是出自于一位身材瘦弱的女雕刻家之手。

她曾与澳大利亚著名画家Lloyd Rees定下婚约，而最后为了事业放弃了甜蜜的爱情。（Brisbane City Hall Museum里收藏了大量Lloyd Rees的作品）

当见习版主以来都没有为“最新焦点”这个板块做过什么特别贡献，现在把以前得过7的一个assignment发上来，也算是布里斯班当地的一个新闻stories吧。

其中有一些照片是在图书馆申请获得允许以后拍下的女雕刻家Daphne Mayo的珍藏照片，她使用过的工具以及她和父母通信的亲笔字迹和书信内容。只希望给大家一个entertainment的作用，请勿用做它用，不然我就犯了copyright的大罪了。（夸张了一点点，呵呵~~不过是真话）

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好牛啊　　　

原帖由 ﹎īναńсе 于 2008-11-1 12:44 发表
fryer library?

seems good, i dont know there are some collections in that library

fryer有很多收藏，其中heyes一人的就以卡车来计算，所以fryer的收藏被命名为Heyes Collection。其他的都是以box来计算的，Daphne Mayo有96个boxes。

原帖由 justin 于 2008-11-1 11:42 发表
厉害

得到老大滴表扬，恩~~把今天记下来，嘻嘻~~~

原帖由 yb1201 于 2008-11-1 10:31 发表
我爱新闻，我想转行:Q

哈哈 欢迎加入！

fryer library?

seems good, i dont know there are some collections in that library

厉害

我爱新闻，我想转行:Q

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“Precious Mamma and Papa”

Daphne Mayo was a well knownQueensland sculptor who has impressed us deeply. However, she was also a commonwoman in her life, but the letters in the Archive reveal a special daughter forher parents. Although she hadn’t spent much of her life living with them,Daphne was the best daughter in the world in her parent’s eyes.



Thesame as all daughters love their parents, despite Daphne’s very busy anddemanding life, she always missed her parents. The many letters in the Archivereveal a very special relationship between Daphne and her parents. As Cassie suggests“She was very much loved and missed by her parents.



Hereis a fine example of their relationship,“My precious Mamma and Papa, I amwriting this letter in the train ….. The smell of birthday cakes is reaching meeven now. My appetite will be well whetted by the time it arrives” Her motherwas always sending her letters ofencouragement, news of home, birthday cakes, clothes and small items fromBrisbane to Sydney which reveals theirlove for their keen interest in her career despite the ill health of both her parents in the latter years asCassie interpreted.


Daphne’stender design won the warm approval of the school and its architect, as oneletter to her parents reveals: “They are very much in love with the design andI like it too… I had the idea in my mind for some time before I could see howto do it. Then, one day I saw how to do it, and it was done!”


For pursuing her own artistic career,Daphne broke off her engagement with Lloyd Rees, who was to become one of Australia’s leading artists. Daphne, being the very independent woman she was,felt both their careers would have been compromised. Cassie hopes to find morecorrespondence between the two artists to reveal more about each other. In amoving tribute to a Daphne Mayo exhibition held at the U.Q. Art Museum in 1979,Lloyd Rees wrote “In ending this tribute to an outstanding Australian artistand a cherished friend, I would like to express my gratitude to the Universityof Queensland for making this exhibition possible”. Their close relationshipremained throughout their lives.

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