Joy Roggenkamp interviewed by Barbara Blackman [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 282544
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Roggenkamp, Joy, 1928-1999, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1986 Oct. 17
- 1 sound cassette (ca. 92 min.)
- Summary:
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Joy Roggenkamp born in Roma, Qld., talks about her family history; background in Pialba, Qld.; her brothers Ken and Cecil; Roggenkamps in Australia; Brisbane during Depression; alcoholism, Cribb Street, Milton; Patrick Lane, Toowong; separation from father; mother's determination to give Joy an education; attending St John's Cathedral School; early training in drawing; Brisbane Technical College; leaving school for a year to pursue painting; WWII; learning to paint with watercolours from Percy Stanhope Hobday; family's encouragement of artistic pursuits; brother Ken's diabetes and art; life classes, Miya Studio; Mel Heysen; the Barjai group and Patricia O'Rourke; Albert Namatjira, Norman Lindsay, Pamela Seeman, Barrett (Barrie) Reid, Betty James; Council for Education, Music and the Arts (CEMA), commercial success; Dr Dewark; her first exhibition (1949), Brisbane, Moreton Galleries; Brisbane Technical College; family issues; returning to school at eighteen (1946), briefly attending university, meeting husband, Ross; Senior Certificate; meeting Margaret Ollie and Margaret Cilento at life class; studio at home; brother Ken's renditions of the heads of Aboriginal people; painting with Sidney Nolan; end of 'Barjai' and Miya; marrying (1951), children, painting at home; resuming, exhibiting and artistic challenges; developing as an artist; Jon Molvig as a teacher; Lismore Art Prize; the influence of other painters; Ian Fairweather at Bribie Island, his last days; husband's opinion of artistic pursuits; exhibitions from the 1960s to the 1980s and paintings in public collections.
- Notes:
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (5 p.)
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Painters
- Other authors/contributors:
- Blackman, Barbara, 1928-, interviewer
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2056 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1986
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