They were painted directly, as line drawings, onto the newly installed asbestos Celotex acoustic tiles in a redecoration of the Auditorium after a fire in 1925. In 1927 he completed murals at the Melbourne Town Hall commissioned for £1,700 (a 2021 value of A$138,340.00) and which are classified by the National Trust as historically significant at the State level. His first major mural was for the Menzies Hotel in Melbourne, in 1927. Waller's first mural design failed to win a competition in 1921. In 1923 he exhibited a series of linocuts, being the first to make and exhibit linocuts in Australia. Sennett, David Barker, William McInnes and David Walker. Galli's Scattered War Leaves and poet Rupert Atkinson's A Nocturne in August 1919, and in September 1919 exhibited with the Victorian Artists Society in East Melbourne as one of the five soldier artists included, with H. On return to Melbourne in 1918 Waller illustrated Leo C. Born right-handed, he learned to use his left hand while recuperating, during which time Christian nursed him and supported them through her commercial illustration, and they spent time in Tasmania recovering from influenza acquired during the Spanish Flu epidemic. He went into action in France as a bombardier in the 111th Howitzer battery of the 4th Division, Australian Imperial Force serving there from 1916 then in May 1917 at Bullecourt where he sustained wounds from an exploding artillery necessitating the amputation of his right arm. and in October married Christian Yandell, from Castlemaine, a fellow student who had graduated before him in 1914. Waller enlisted in August 1915 in the 22nd Infantry Battalion, later being transferred to the Artillery. He left the local school aged 14 to work on his father's farm, then in 1913 began studies at the National Gallery school in Melbourne in drawing, under Frederick McCubbin, graduating to Bernard Hall's painting classes, winning ten prizes and exhibiting in 1915. His parents were Australians Sarah (née Napier) and William Waller, a contractor. Napier Waller was born in Penshurst, Victoria in 1893. Early life Ī Napier Waller mural in the Melbourne Town Hall Auditorium beside the proscenium arch, photographed in c.1940 Nicholas Draffin, author of a monograph on Waller, in the Australian Dictionary of Biography writes that his work "was strongly influenced by Pre-Raphaelite and late-nineteenth century British painters his monumental works show an increasingly classical and calmly formal style, using timeless and heroic figure compositions to express ideas and ideals, sometimes with theosophical or gnostic overtones". However, Melbourne has been described as "a gallery of Napier Waller’s work", as eleven monumental murals by Waller are on display in the central business district and at the University of Melbourne’s main campus. He is perhaps best known for the mosaics and stained glass for the Hall of Memory at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, completed in 1958. Mervyn Napier Waller CMG OBE (19 June 1893 – 30 March 1972) was a noted Australian muralist, mosaicist and painter in stained glass and other media. The design shown here is Sainthill’s initial drawing: the finished design is also held by the V&A Theatre and Performance Department (S.2416-1986).Waller's signature (with left hand after war injury) The action took place within a permanent setting in the form of a ship. Edric Connor, the first black actor to appear at Stratford, played the narrator, Gower, as a sailor who related Pericles’s adventures to his fellow shipmates. Richardson gave unity to the wide-ranging action of Pericles by imagining it as a shipman’s tale brought to life. His lavish sets and costumes for Michael Benthall’s 1951 production of The Tempest at Stratford established him as a leading designer and he became associated with a flamboyant and fantastical style, though he could also create a convincing everyday reality, as demonstrated by his interiors for the film version of John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger (1959). He had designed for the stage in Australia but it was in Britain that his theatrical career developed and flourished. The design, inspired by Greece and Byzantium, was by Tasmanian-born artist Loudon Sainthill (1918–1969). Directed by Tony Richardson (1928–1991), it had a cast of 39, led by Richard Johnson as Pericles and Geraldine McEwan as his daughter, Marina. Stratford's 1958 Pericles was a spectacular affair. Preliminary set design by Loudon Sainthill for Shakespeare's play Pericles, Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, 1958.
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