Various recordings including interviews with Bob Baird

MLOH 631

fonds

1987-2008

Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories

961219

Digitised

7 audiocassettes (7 hr., 23 min.) - 10 × 7 cm, 4 mm tape

Bob Baird is a teacher and painter of portraits and impressionist style landscapes. His work is represented in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, national and New South Wales state libraries, as well as several institutional collections. He has been the recipient of numerous commissions in portraiture and in landscape painting. He conducted solo and group exhibitions at Holdsworth Gallery, Woollahra 1987-96.

Bob Baird has also practiced extensively as a professional musician. He was engaged in backing and jazz performances and recording 1965-2006. He has been touring yearly since 2002 playing Jazz in British, European, American and Australian Jazz Festivals.

Reference:
Australian Watercolour Institute. http://www.awi.com.au/AWI%20Members%20Gallery.4.htm (accessed 13 March 2012)

Item 1: Jim McLeod's tribute to John Sangster on Jazztrack, ABC Classic FM
Item 2: Lloyd Rees on the opening of Bob Baird's exhibition ‘Impressions of Australia’, at the Holdsworth Gallery, Sydney
Item 3: Interviews with Rita Roberts and Bob Baird
Item 4: David Steven interviewed by Bob Baird on Eastside Radio
Item 5: Bob Baird interviewed by Paula Langlands on Eastside Radio, 28 August 2008
Item 6: Interview with Bob Baird for the Doubly Gifted exhibition at Waverley Library for Eastside Radio
Item 7: Lloyd Rees oral history interview by Bob Baird

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