Lawrence Daws
Lawrence Daws
Study VII, Waterlilies, 1993
Lawrence Daws (born 1927)
mixed media on paper
25 x 29 cm (frame: 48.5 x 51 cm)
signed lower right
Exhibited: Lawrence Daws, Recent Paintings, 4th Aug - 4th Sept 1993, Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane, cat. no. 42, illustrated in catalogue.
$2,750 framed
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Lawrence Daws grew up on the Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia and studied at the National Gallery School in Melbourne. From 1958 to 1959 Daws lived and worked in Rome before moving to London in 1960, where he lived for the next ten years. Returning to Australia in 1970, Daws lived on Bribie Island, Queensland for four years where he became friends with Ian Fairweather. In 1974 he moved to Owl Creek Farm in the Glasshouse Mountains of Queensland’s Sunshine Coast which has been his home base for most of his life since.
Lawrence Daws’ has had over 70 solo exhibitions and has been included in over 40 group exhibitions. He won the Dunlop Prize twice (1953 and 1954), the Italian Scholarship in 1957; International award, Biennale des Jeunes, Paris, 1962; Silver medal in the Bienal de San Paolo, Brazil, 1963 and the Georges Art Prize, Melbourne, 1977. An early retrospective of his work was held at the Art Gallery of South Australia in 1966 and in 2000, a survey exhibition was held at the Brisbane City Gallery.
Lawrence Daws’ work is represented in every major Australian public collection, as well as the Tate Gallery, London; The Victoria and Albert Museum, London; The National Gallery of Beijing and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh.