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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) in [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]]; seventeen windows for St John's in [[Camberwell, Victoria]]; St Giles' in [[Murrumbeena, Victoria]]; Geelong Grammar school chapel in [[Geelong, Victoria]]; All Saints' Newtown, Geelong; St Andrew's, Brighton; St Mark's in [[Red Cliffs, Victoria]]; St George's in [[Parkes, New South Wales]]; All Saints' in [[Canowindra, New South Wales]], and St Stephen's, [[Adamstown, New South Wales]]; St Edmund's, [[Wembley, Western Australia]]; St David's Cathedral in [[Hobart, Tasmania]]; St John's, [[Devonport, Tasmania]], Holy Trinity, [[Ulverstone, Tasmania]].{{cn}} |
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) in [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]]; seventeen windows for St John's in [[Camberwell, Victoria]]; St Giles' in [[Murrumbeena, Victoria]]; Geelong Grammar school chapel in [[Geelong, Victoria]]; All Saints' Newtown, Geelong; St Andrew's, Brighton; St Mark's in [[Red Cliffs, Victoria]]; St George's in [[Parkes, New South Wales]]; All Saints' in [[Canowindra, New South Wales]], and St Stephen's, [[Adamstown, New South Wales]]; St Edmund's, [[Wembley, Western Australia]]; St David's Cathedral in [[Hobart, Tasmania]]; St John's, [[Devonport, Tasmania]], Holy Trinity, [[Ulverstone, Tasmania]].{{cn}} He provided ten windows for Saint Peter's Anglican Church in Ballarat.<ref name="retires" /> |
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The stained glass Kellock made for St Mark's Chapel, honouring [[Royal Australian Navy]] crews and ships lost in action, was among his most outstanding achievements.{{cn|date=December 2022}} |
The stained glass Kellock made for St Mark's Chapel, honouring [[Royal Australian Navy]] crews and ships lost in action, was among his most outstanding achievements.{{cn|date=December 2022}} |
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David Taylor Kellock (1913–1988) was an Australian stained glass artist, active from the late 1940s until the 1970s.
Life and career
Born in Dunfermline, Scotland, on 19 January 1913, Kellock studied at the School of Art College in Edinburgh[1] and worked at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, before coming to Australia in the 1930s.[2] In the United Kingdom, he specialised in stained glass, textiles, fabric printing, dye mixing and pottery work, including glass mixing.
Kellock was an instructor in the Art Department at the Hobart Technical College[3] 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[4] Kellock was a fellow of the British Society of Master Glass Painters, a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts[citation needed] in London and an associate of the Stained Glass Association of America.
Artistic philosophy
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."[5]
Commissions
Kellock carried out a wide range of commissions for Australia's leading church architect, Louis Williams, in his churches, chapels and schools, with fifty-five windows for St Mark's Chapel, Flinders Naval Depot (Westernport) in Victoria; seventeen windows for St John's in Camberwell, Victoria; St Giles' in Murrumbeena, Victoria; Geelong Grammar school chapel in Geelong, Victoria; All Saints' Newtown, Geelong; St Andrew's, Brighton; St Mark's in Red Cliffs, Victoria; St George's in Parkes, New South Wales; All Saints' in Canowindra, New South Wales, and St Stephen's, Adamstown, New South Wales; St Edmund's, Wembley, Western Australia; St David's Cathedral in Hobart, Tasmania; St John's, Devonport, Tasmania, Holy Trinity, Ulverstone, Tasmania.[citation needed] He provided ten windows for Saint Peter's Anglican Church in Ballarat.[4]
The stained glass Kellock made for St Mark's Chapel, honouring Royal Australian Navy crews and ships lost in action, was among his most outstanding achievements.[citation needed]
Kellock also worked for other architects and his memorial windows are in the Littlejohn Memorial Chapel in Scotch College, Melbourne, Melbourne Grammar School Chapel, St John's, Beaufort, Victoria; St Augustine's, in the City of Merri-bek; St Paul's Ballarat; St John's, Balian, Christ Church Cathedral, Grafton, New South Wales, Methodist church, Albury, New South Wales and windows in Brisbane and Tasmania.[citation needed]
Death
David Taylor Kellock died on 6 June 1988 in Berwick, Melbourne, Victoria.[citation needed]
References
- ^ "PLAN FOR CHURCH WINDOW". Northern Star. 27 January 1953. Retrieved 16 June 2023.
- ^ Hughes, Bronwyn (1997). "Twentieth century stained glass in Melbourne churches". Masters Research thesis, Faculty of Arts, The University of Melbourne.
- ^ "ART GROUP'S EXHIBITION". Mercury. 30 October 1940. Retrieved 16 June 2023.
- ^ a b "After 32 years art teacher retires". Ballarat Courier. 24 December 1977. Retrieved 18 June 2023.
- ^ Taylor-Kellock, 'The Appreciation of Art', S.M.B. Students' Magazine (1946), p 19.
- Gladys Marie Moore: Louis Reginald Williams. University of Melbourne, August 2001