Pamela Griffith drafts for 'The roadmakers: a history of main roads in New South Wales', ca. 1970-1975

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MLMSS 8593/Box 3X

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ca. 1970-1975

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Cartographic Materials, Photographs

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0.78 metres of textual material (2 boxes, 1 outsize box)

Pamela Griffith, painter, printmaker, teacher and writer, was born in Sydney in 1943, daughter of the ceramicist Joyce Gittoes and grand daughter of painter Lavinia Figtree. She spent her girlhood at Rockdale and attended Moorefields Girls High at Kogarah. On completing the Leaving Certificate in 1960 she was awarded an art teaching scholarship. At Sydney Teachers’ College she was awarded the Art IV prize. In 1983 Griffith graduated from the Alexander Mackie CAE (now College of Fine Arts, UNSW).

As well as teaching in New South Wales secondary schools, Griffith taught printmaking at technical college and at Colleges of Advanced Education. In later years she taught master classes at regional centres in New South Wales.

Her etching prints are made using fine grain aquatint and the effect is often achieved by using multiple plates, with a focus on native Australian flora and fauna as well as the landscape. This has led to many official commissions as well as her work being held in many public and corporate collections.

Her book, Australia – an artist’s journey through the landscape (2003) includes reproductions of many of her best known etchings. She has published over 400 editions of her own work, most of which are in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia.

In 1988 Griffith created two engraved the fabric toiles for Australia’s Bicentenary. She later created a similar toile for the beatification of Mary MacKillop and the visit to Australia of Pope John Paul. Other commissions include the design for the centenary of Federation celebration embroidered wall hanging at the Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre. As well as etchings and other prints, Griffith has has a considerable practice in landscape painting and still life. She has painted many portrait commissions, including Sir William Deane, Dame Joan Sutherland, Richard Bonynge and the actor Henri Szeps.

Reference
Pamela Griffith: biography at Design & Art Australia Online http://www.daao.org.au/bio/pamela-griffith/ (accessed 6 July 2012)

Historian's copy in 5 volumes and 1 volume of maps and statistics, 'History of the Department of Main Roads or alternative title the Development of Main Roads in New South Wales'. Annotated typescript drafts including black and white photographs, photocopies, maps, and transparencies, ca. 1970-1975

BOX 1
Volume 1
Part 1, Chapters 1-3

Volume 2
Part 1, Chapters 4-6

Volume 3
Part 2

BOX 2
Volume 4
Part 3, Chapters 1-2

Volume 5
Part 3, Chapters 3-6

BOX 3X
Volume 6
Maps, administration, statistics

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The roadmakers : a history of main roads in New South Wales / Department of Main Roads, New South Wales. Sydney : Department of Main Roads, 1976

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