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'''David Taylor Kellock''' (19 January 1913 – 6 June 1988)<ref name="Monument Australia">{{cite web |title=Battle of the Coral Sea |url=https://monumentaustralia.org.au/display/121503-battle-of-the-coral-sea |website=Monument Australia |access-date=20 June 2023}}</ref> was a Scottish Australian [[stained glass]] artist, active from the late 1940s until the 1970s.<ref>The Dictionary of Scottish Painters. 1600 to the present. Paul Harris and Julian Halsby. Canongate Publishing. 1990.</ref><ref>Dictionary of Scottish Art and Architecture. Peter J. M. McEwan. Antique Collectors Club. 1994.</ref>
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'''David Taylor Kellock''' (1913–1988) was a leading Australian stained glass artist from the late 1940s until the 1970s.

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==Life and career==
==Life and career==
Born in Dunfermline, Scotland on 19 January 1913, D. Taylor Kellock studied in Edinburgh and worked at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, before coming to Australia in the 1930s. In the United Kingdom, he specialised in stained glass, textiles, fabric printing, dye mixing and pottery work, including glass mixing.
Kellock studied at the School of Art College in [[Edinburgh]]<ref>{{Cite news |date=1953-01-27 |title=PLAN FOR CHURCH WINDOW |work=Northern Star |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article96461476 |access-date=2023-06-16}}</ref> and worked at the [[Victoria and Albert Museum]], London, before coming to [[Australia]] in the 1930s.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hughes |first=Bronwyn |date=1997 |title=Twentieth century stained glass in Melbourne churches |url=http://hdl.handle.net/11343/36702 |journal=Masters Research Thesis, Faculty of Arts, the University of Melbourne.|hdl=11343/36702 }}</ref>


Kellock was appointed Head of the Art Department, Hobart Technical College and examiner in history of architecture for the R.A.I.A. in Tasmania between 1939 and 1941. He was in charge of the Art School, Geelong Grammar School, and moved to Ballarat in 1946, where he began his stained glass business and was also art teacher at the Ballarat School of Mines.
Kellock was an instructor in the Art Department at the Hobart Technical College<ref>{{Cite news |date=1940-10-30 |title=ART GROUP'S EXHIBITION |work=Mercury |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article25831087 |access-date=2023-06-16}}</ref> and examiner in history of architecture for the RAIA in [[Tasmania]] from 1939 to 1941. He was in charge of the art school at [[Geelong Grammar School]] and moved to [[Ballarat]] in 1946, where he began his stained glass business and was also art teacher at the [[Ballarat School of Mines]].<ref name="retires">{{cite news |title=After 32 years art teacher retires |url=https://bih.federation.edu.au/index.php/Taylor_Kellock |access-date=18 June 2023 |work=Ballarat Courier |date=24 December 1977}}</ref>

He was a Fellow of the British Society of Master Glass Painters, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in London and an Associate of the Stained Glass Association of America.


==Artistic philosophy==
==Artistic philosophy==
In 1946, D. Taylor Kellock wrote "Appreciation is not a mere matter of caprice; we must not be satisfied by 'This pleases me, That does not' ... We may learn to feel more widely and to ... find pleasure in qualities which at first were not apparent. Even as artists we should understand and practise appreciation, for a sympathy with others is of value in completing and enriching our own work. We are not only artists, we are also human beings ... Unless art is of some use to humanity and makes life better and richer, humanity will pass it by ... Under all forms of art, there lies a common principle. The human mind is capable of ... a scientific or intellectual form ... an emotional or imaginative form ... It is this touch of emotion and imagination which is the essence of art."<ref>Taylor-Kellock, 'The Appreciation of Art', S.M.B. Students' Magazine (1946), p 19.</ref>
In 1946, Kellock wrote "Appreciation is not a mere matter of caprice; we must not be satisfied by 'This pleases me, That does not' ... We may learn to feel more widely and to ... find pleasure in qualities which at first were not apparent. Even as artists we should understand and practise appreciation, for a sympathy with others is of value in completing and enriching our own work. We are not only artists, we are also human beings ... Unless art is of some use to humanity and makes life better and richer, humanity will pass it by ... Under all forms of art, there lies a common principle. The human mind is capable of ... a scientific or intellectual form ... an emotional or imaginative form ... It is this touch of emotion and imagination which is the essence of art."<ref>Taylor-Kellock, 'The Appreciation of Art', S.M.B. Students' Magazine (1946), p 19.</ref>


==Commissions==
==Commissions==
He provided ten windows for Saint Peter's Anglican Church in Ballarat.<ref name="retires" />
D. Taylor Kellock carried out a wide range of commissions for Australia's leading church architect, [[Louis Williams (architect)|Louis Williams]], in his churches, chapels and schools, with fifty-five windows for St Mark's Chapel, Flinders Naval Depot (Westernport); seventeen windows for St John's Camberwell; St Giles' Murrumbeena; Geelong Grammar school chapel; All Saints' Newtown, Geelong; St Andrew's, Brighton; St Mark's, Red Cliffs; St George's, Parkes, NSW; All Saints' Canowindra, NSW and St Stephen's, Adamstown, NSW; St Edmund's, Wembley, W A; St David's Cathedral, Hobart; St John's, Devonport, Holy Trinity, Ulverstone, Tasmania, and elsewhere.


Kellock also made a [[World War II]] memorial window for St Augustine's, in the [[City of Merri-bek]],<ref>{{cite news
The stained glass Kellock made for St Mark's Chapel, honouring RAN crews and ships lost in action, was among his most outstanding achievements.
| date = November 10, 1951
| title = Exquisite War Memorial Completed at Garden Vale
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=lrwTAAAAIBAJ&dq=%22Taylor+Kellock%22&pg=PA7&article_id=3641,997599
| work = [[The Age]]
| page = 12
| department = Literary Section
| access-date = 2023-07-08
}}</ref> and Littlejohn Memorial Chapel in [[Scotch College, Melbourne]].<ref>{{cite news
| date = September 28, 1951
| title = News of The Day: In Memory
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=tb8TAAAAIBAJ&q=kellock&pg=PA2&article_id=3305,2910228#v=onepage
| work = [[The Age]]
| page = 2
| access-date = 2023-07-08
}}</ref>


Kellock designed all the windows for the Memorial chapel at Flinders Naval Depot in [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]], a building designed by [[Louis Williams (architect)|Louis Williams]].<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article23183292?searchTerm=&searchLimits=l-publictag=Louis+Williams "Navy Honors War Heroes"], ''The Argus'', 8 August 1952, p. 4S.</ref><ref>{{cite news
Kellock also worked for other architects and his memorial windows are in Littlejohn Chapel, Scotch College, Melbourne Grammar School Chapel, St John's, Beaufort; St Augustine's, Moreland; St Paul's Ballarat; St John's, Balian, Christ Church Cathedral, Grafton, NSW, Methodist church, Albury, NSW and windows in Brisbane and Tasmania.
| date = May 8, 1954

| title = Memorial Chapel at Naval Depot
David Taylor Kellock died on 6 June 1988 in Berwick, Melbourne, Victoria.
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=aLYUAAAAIBAJ&dq=%22Taylor+Kellock%22&pg=PA5&article_id=5934,1006853
| work = [[The Age]]
| access-date = 2023-07-08
| page = 9
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==References==
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*Gladys Marie Moore: ''Louis Reginald Williams''. University of Melbourne, August 2001
*Bronwyn Hughes: ''Twentieth Century Stained Glass in Melbourne Churches''. University of Melbourne, 1997.
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Latest revision as of 10:46, 15 October 2024

David Taylor Kellock
Born(1913-01-19)19 January 1913
Dunfermline, Scotland
Died6 June 1988(1988-06-06) (aged 75)
Berwick, Australia
NationalityScottish

David Taylor Kellock (19 January 1913 – 6 June 1988)[1] was a Scottish Australian stained glass artist, active from the late 1940s until the 1970s.[2][3]

Life and career

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Kellock studied at the School of Art College in Edinburgh[4] and worked at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, before coming to Australia in the 1930s.[5]

Kellock was an instructor in the Art Department at the Hobart Technical College[6] and examiner in history of architecture for the RAIA in Tasmania from 1939 to 1941. He was in charge of the art school at Geelong Grammar School and moved to Ballarat in 1946, where he began his stained glass business and was also art teacher at the Ballarat School of Mines.[7]

Artistic philosophy

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In 1946, Kellock wrote "Appreciation is not a mere matter of caprice; we must not be satisfied by 'This pleases me, That does not' ... We may learn to feel more widely and to ... find pleasure in qualities which at first were not apparent. Even as artists we should understand and practise appreciation, for a sympathy with others is of value in completing and enriching our own work. We are not only artists, we are also human beings ... Unless art is of some use to humanity and makes life better and richer, humanity will pass it by ... Under all forms of art, there lies a common principle. The human mind is capable of ... a scientific or intellectual form ... an emotional or imaginative form ... It is this touch of emotion and imagination which is the essence of art."[8]

Commissions

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He provided ten windows for Saint Peter's Anglican Church in Ballarat.[7]

Kellock also made a World War II memorial window for St Augustine's, in the City of Merri-bek,[9] and Littlejohn Memorial Chapel in Scotch College, Melbourne.[10]

Kellock designed all the windows for the Memorial chapel at Flinders Naval Depot in Victoria, a building designed by Louis Williams.[11][12]

References

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  1. ^ "Battle of the Coral Sea". Monument Australia. Retrieved 20 June 2023.
  2. ^ The Dictionary of Scottish Painters. 1600 to the present. Paul Harris and Julian Halsby. Canongate Publishing. 1990.
  3. ^ Dictionary of Scottish Art and Architecture. Peter J. M. McEwan. Antique Collectors Club. 1994.
  4. ^ "PLAN FOR CHURCH WINDOW". Northern Star. 27 January 1953. Retrieved 16 June 2023.
  5. ^ Hughes, Bronwyn (1997). "Twentieth century stained glass in Melbourne churches". Masters Research Thesis, Faculty of Arts, the University of Melbourne. hdl:11343/36702.
  6. ^ "ART GROUP'S EXHIBITION". Mercury. 30 October 1940. Retrieved 16 June 2023.
  7. ^ a b "After 32 years art teacher retires". Ballarat Courier. 24 December 1977. Retrieved 18 June 2023.
  8. ^ Taylor-Kellock, 'The Appreciation of Art', S.M.B. Students' Magazine (1946), p 19.
  9. ^ "Exquisite War Memorial Completed at Garden Vale". Literary Section. The Age. 10 November 1951. p. 12. Retrieved 8 July 2023.
  10. ^ "News of The Day: In Memory". The Age. 28 September 1951. p. 2. Retrieved 8 July 2023.
  11. ^ "Navy Honors War Heroes", The Argus, 8 August 1952, p. 4S.
  12. ^ "Memorial Chapel at Naval Depot". The Age. 8 May 1954. p. 9. Retrieved 8 July 2023.
  • Gladys Marie Moore: Louis Reginald Williams. University of Melbourne, August 2001
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