David Taylor Kellock

David Taylor Kellock (1913–1988)[1] was an Australian stained glass artist, active from the late 1940s until the 1970s.

Life and career

Kellock studied at the School of Art College in Edinburgh[2] and worked at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, before coming to Australia in the 1930s.[3]

Kellock was an instructor in the Art Department at the Hobart Technical College[4] 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.[5]

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."[6]

Commissions

He provided ten windows for Saint Peter's Anglican Church in Ballarat.[5]

Kellock also made a World War II memorial window for St Augustine's, in the City of Merri-bek,[7] and Littlejohn Memorial Chapel in Scotch College, Melbourne.[8]

Kellock designed all the windows for the Memorial chapel at Flinders Naval Depot in Victoria, a building designed by Louis Williams.[9][10]

References
  1. "Battle of the Coral Sea". Monument Australia. Retrieved 20 June 2023.
  2. "PLAN FOR CHURCH WINDOW". Northern Star. 27 January 1953. Retrieved 16 June 2023.
  3. Hughes, Bronwyn (1997). "Twentieth century stained glass in Melbourne churches". Masters Research Thesis, Faculty of Arts, the University of Melbourne. hdl:11343/36702.
  4. "ART GROUP'S EXHIBITION". Mercury. 30 October 1940. Retrieved 16 June 2023.
  5. "After 32 years art teacher retires". Ballarat Courier. 24 December 1977. Retrieved 18 June 2023.
  6. Taylor-Kellock, 'The Appreciation of Art', S.M.B. Students' Magazine (1946), p 19.
  7. "Exquisite War Memorial Completed at Garden Vale". Literary Section. The Age. 10 November 1951. p. 12. Retrieved 8 July 2023.
  8. "News of The Day: In Memory". The Age. 28 September 1951. p. 2. Retrieved 8 July 2023.
  9. "Navy Honors War Heroes", The Argus, 8 August 1952, p. 4S.
  10. "Memorial Chapel at Navel 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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