Christine Anne Davis (nee Munsel) Artist
Hidden Talent: Untold Stories of the Fairview Art Collection
Release Date: 02/13/2020
Hidden Talent: Untold Stories of the Fairview Art Collection
An interview with art collector, heritage enthusiast and owner of historic Fairview, Thomas Murrell with Michael Tetlow on ABC Radio Perth Afternoons Program as they talk about the history of the house, the nationally significant collection of women's art and open as part of the 2024 Australian Heritage Festival..
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Australian oil painter Andrew Murrell (1945-2023) talks about his art and life.
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An interview with Helen Patterson, daughter of notable South Australian artist Mary Millicent Wigg (nee Lamphee) who was active from the 1940s to 2001. She was born on the 8th October 1904 and died on April 29, 2001 aged 96 years after a tragic car accident whilst returning from a painting trip to the Flinders Ranges in South Australia.
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Thomas Murrell is interviewed about his late Uncle's just published book "To Thyself Be True" by Bill Murrell. The interview is by Peter Goers of ABC Radio Adelaide 891 Evenings.
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Art collector Thomas Murrell is interviewed by Jenny Seaton on Curtin Radio about the World Heritage Day event on Subiaco's historic stained glass as part of the United Nations designated International Year of Glass.
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Art Collector Thomas Murrell is interviewed by ABC Radio Perth Afternoon show host Christine Layton about the upcoming seminar for World Heritage Day and the International Year of Glass on Subiaco's historic stained glass and leadlight.
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Glass historian Dr Bronwyn Hughes talks about the stained glass work of William Montgomery and Herbert Grimbly. Glass panels attributed to these glass artists are held in the collection at historic Fairview of Subiaco.
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Fourth generation glass artist and restorer Kim Fitzpatrick from Tradition Stained Glass talks about his art practice and then takes us on a tour of the stained glass collection of the historic home Fairview in Subiaco.
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Marie Tuck (1866 - 1947) was a South Australian and West Australian painter and art educator who was heavily influenced by French culture. One of her works is held in The Fairview Art Collection in Subiaco, Perth. A relative, Margaret Muirhead discusses her life and extraordinary talent as part of International Women's Day celebrations.
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The Fairview Art Collection
info_outlineChristine Anne Davis (nee Munsel) was born at Merredin in Western Australia’s wheatbelt on 3rd January 1961. She undertook her first studies in Art in Fukuoka, Japan in 1978 as a Rotary Exchange student. She completed a Certificate of Fine Art in 1980 and a Diploma of Fine Art (Painting) in 1982 from the Claremont School of Art and then finished a Bachelor of Education with a major in Textiles and Art History from Curtin University in 1986. She began teaching art at Narrogin Senior High School in 1986, in 1988 began exhibiting at local and regional shows and exhibitions and from 1992 to 1997 was a committee member and then President of the Narrogin Art Gallery. Her first solo exhibition was held there in May of 1999 and forty-five of the fifty pieces for sale were sold. This was followed by Awards by the Royal Agricultural Society and more solo exhibitions at the Narrogin Town Hall in October of 2006, 2007, 2008 and June 2009 before a four-month trip through Europe where she was artist in residence at La Magistere, France. A return exhibition of European Artwork was held in the Narrogin Town Hall for the Annual Spring Festival in October 2009. Between 2002 and 2008 Christine pioneered a new style in the challenging medium of mirrors and artwork. She has been represented in more than 100 invitation exhibitions, including Newman College ArtCenta, South Perth Hospice, St Hilda’s College, Hale School, Arthritis Centre, Millbrook at Williams, Mitchell House at Wagin, Wagin Woolarama, Beverley Art Exhibition and Williams Gateway Exhibition. Her work is held in many private collections, and an especially fine early mixed media work Delphiniums 1988 is held in the Fairview Art Collection in Subiaco, Perth.