David Milliss aggregated collection of papers

fonds

1922-2010

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Photographs, Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Moving Images, Design Drawings, Clippings, Architectural and Technical Drawings

9661016

3.96 metres of textual material (20 boxes and 2 outsize items)

David Ernest Milliss (1931 - 2019)
While at school David Milliss was impressed by the strength of conviction of the New Thetre’s Tomorrow the World which visited Katoomba in 1945. He trained as a secondary school teacher at Sydney Teachers College (an influence was art lecturer Rah Fizelle) after graduating BA at Sydney University where he cartooned and illustrated (as "dem”). While teaching art in Sydney high schools he studied part-time at East Sydney Tech. David joined New Theatre in 1952 as a costume and set designer. In 1968 he started working at UNSW in its Publication Section, designing the university letterhead, Unisearch and PERC symbols and advertising for Open Day.
David first exhibited his paintings with the Watercolour Institute, and afterwards at Strawberry Hills, Parramatta, Mosman, Drummoyne, Rockdale, Ashfield and Liverpool. He won 1970 Credit Union art prizes for watercolour and oil, first prize in the 1985 Raymond Terrace art show, and two prizes in the 1987 Grenfell Henry Lawson Festival of the Arts.

COLLECTION 1:
David Milliss papers, 1950s-1995

COLLECTION 2:
David Milliss further papers, 1940s-2010

COLLECTION 3:
David Milliss further papers, 1934-2002

COLLECTION 4:
Davis Milliss further papers, 1922-1987