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Singabout was well illustrated by a number of talented artists from Sydney's left wing art world.
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Gil Small
Gil was a friend of John Meredith, & might not have been a full-time artist as he had a career in the publishing field. He & his dancer wife Joan lived at Como. Jamie saw his death notice about 12 months ago. (Source: Jamie Carlin)
Gil was a fiddler & appeared with John Meredith in a short-lived group Boomerang, 1952/53 (source: More Than a Life - John Meredith and the Fight for Australian Tradition by Keith McKenry)
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Rod Shaw (1915-1992)
In 1939 Shaw and Dick Edwards established The Barn on the Hill Press at
Woolloomooloo. During the war he was a camoufleur with the R.A.A.F. The
commercial operations of the two partners resumed in 1945 under the
imprint of Edwards & Shaw.
Shaw was a member of the Communist Party of Australia from the war
years until 1956. During the same period he taught and exhibited with
the Studio of Realist Art (SORA), of which he was a founder. SORA
published ten regular bulletins and held exhibitions at its studio in
George Street, Sydney and at David Jones' Gallery. In the early 1950s
Shaw had designed the spectacular mural depicting the history of the
Australian working class and the labour movement located in the Sydney
headquarters of the Waterside Workers' Federation. He also conducted
classes for the Wharfies Art Group. He went on to teach drawing and
painting in technical colleges, the University of N.S.W, and Arts
Council Summer Schools.
Shaw, Roderick (1915-1992) also known as Schweik (1915-1992), Shaw, Rod (1915-1992), Shaw, Roderick Malcolm Shaw (1915-1992)
Papers of Rod Shaw's daughter, Chrissie, are in the Rod Shaw collection in the State Library of NSW.
Early member Jamie Carlin has a painting by Ron Shaw that he had originally given to John Meredith who left it to Alan & Gay Scott. Gay later gave it to Jamie. According to early member Frank Maher, Edwards & Shaw also did bulk print runs of blank Singabout Night posters whenever BMC needed them!
Rod & Clem Millward worked on the MUA mural now in the Maritime Museum
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Clem Millward, 1929 -
Born in Melbourne in 1929 Millward spent his childhood in Western
Australia before undertaking studies at East Sydney Technical College
and at the Julian Ashton School in Sydney. He won a student
scholarship from the Romanian Government and studied in Bucharest. He
has exhibited widely and is represented in several major collections.
He was awarded the 1973 Wynne Prize.
Clem Millward received BMC's third Life Membership for his illustrations for Songs from Lawson. He is still painting and his paintings are found in many private and public collections.
(from Jamie Carlin - Clem never/rarely came to BMC, but was a friend
of Rod Shaw a very famous artist who provided drawings for
Singabout. )
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Herbert
McClintock (1906-1985)
HerbertMcClintock, artist, was born on 20 November 1906 at
Subiaco, Perth, eldest of six children of South Australian-born
parents William McClintock, engraver, and his wife Ada Julia, née
Cramond. The family settled at Heidelberg, Victoria, after a period
in Adelaide. At the age of 13 Herbert was apprenticed to a process
engraver. He later worked for a signwriter who encouraged his
artistic talents. From 1922 he attended evening classes at the
National Gallery of Victoria’s drawing school, where he was taught
by Bernard Hall, George Bell and William McInnes. Fellow students
included Eric Thake and James Flett.
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John Dengate - 1938-2013
Although John Dengate
had been drawing, reciting and writing verse since he was a small lad, he
started writing in a traditional style after his future wife, R. Dale Morgan took him to the Bush Music Club in 1961.
Here John was influenced by John Meredith and Alan Scott, both Australian
folklorists and collectors. John became an enthusiastic researcher of
Australian folklore as a basis to his writing, storytelling and performances. But he was also a writer and sketcher of
political satire and parodies. For over sixty years, John wrote about life in
Australia and was well known for his performance at folk venues and sketches he
freely gave people at festivals. (source - Dale Dengate)
Blog articles on The Art of John Dengate Part 1 & Part 2
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Ads in Singabout for BMC's first 2 books
Singabout 1(2), Autumn 1956
Singabout 2(2), September 1957
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Illustrated covers
volume 1, 1956
Volume 4, 1960-62
Singabout, vol 6, final issues
6(1) - unnamed artist, 6(2) - art by John Dengate
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Singabout 1(2), January 1956 - artwork & layout by Gil Small
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A selection of illustrations, where the artist was credited
Singabout, 3(2), 1959 or 1960. Frank Bennier, 1919 - 1998, also known as Frank Benier, Benier, Screen artist, painter & cartooonist https://www.daao.org.au/bio/frank-bennier/
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Singabout 4(1), 1960, illustration by Unk White (1900-1986), courtesy of The Bulletin
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Singabout 4(4), 1962 - cover artist Keith Antill (no information available - so far)
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Signature RMS - Roderick Malcolm Shaw
Singabout 3(4) - p16 - signed by RMS
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Singabout 4(3), p.12 - signed RMS
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Singabout 4(3), p.16. signed RMS
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Uncredited artists
Singabout 3(3), Winter/Spring 1959, p.16 (squiggle between rug & leg of bed might be RMS)
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Singabout 3(4) p.6
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Singabout 3(4) p.11
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Singabout 4(1), p.3
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Singabout 4(1), p.5
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Singabout 4(2), p.10
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Singabout 4(2)
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Singabout 4(3) (signed behind owner's boot?)
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Illustrations by known artists
Gil Small - Singabout 2(4), p.10
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Rod Shaw
Singabout 4(4) p.7
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Singabout 4(4), p.12
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Rod Shaw & daughter Christine Shaw
Singabout 5(1), p.13
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Singabout 5(1), p.20
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Rod Shaw & Clem Millward - Singabout 5(3) & (4)
Singabout 5(3), p. 8
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Singabout 5(3), p.3
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Singabout 5(3), p.6
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Singabout 5(4), p. 13
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Singabout 5(4), pp10-11
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John Dengate, credited in 6(2), but he also supplied all but one drawing for 6(1) according to Dale Dengate.
Singabout 6(1), p.15
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Singabout 6(1), p. 14
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Singabout 6(2), p. 20
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Singabout 6(2), p.17
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John did not create this illustration
Singabout 6(1), p. 3
Thanks to Jamie Carlin, Frank Maher & Dale Dengate for information used in this article.
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