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Mary Packer Harris D.A. (Edin.) (30 July 1891 – 26 August 1978) was a Scottish artist and art teacher with a considerable career in South Australia.

Early life and training

Mary was born in Middlesbrough, Yorkshire the only daughter of musician and beekeeper Clement Antrobus Harris (c. 1862 – 12 February 1942) and his wife Mary Elizabeth Harris ( – 14 February 1937). Educated in Scotland she attended Morrison's Academy and Perth Academy before graduating with a diploma from the Edinburgh College of Art.^[1] In 1913 she did a post-graduate course in woodblock printing with F. Morley Fletcher, director of the College. She trained as a teacher with the Scottish Education Department and taught at Buckie, Banffshire, Scotland, then from 1918 at the Ayr Academy.

South Australia

An elder brother, Antrobus, was killed in the Flanders trenches in 1916.^[2] Another brother, John Brocas Harris ( –1967) had earlier emigrated to South Australia, served at Gallipoli with the Army Medical Corps and was badly wounded. He married Gwendoline Mary Colyer ( –1959) in 1917, and settled in Gawler, where he was a noted horticulturist and horticultural inspector at Gawler, and later at the Government orchard, Blackwood. His eldest son Dr. Ian Harris born 12 February 1920 was awarded DSC for navy heroism. 

In response to his urging, Mary and her parents emigrated in 1921. In 1922 she accepted a position with the SA School of Arts and Crafts, where she was to teach for 30 years in a wide range of mediums: oil and watercolor, lino and woodblock printing, tapestry and embroidery.

Harris was a longtime member of the Royal SA Society of Arts (1922–67) and also exhibited with the Contemporary Art Society. Fellow teachers included her friend Ruth Tuck. Students included Rex Wood, Jacqueline Hick and John Olday. She lived at "Bundilla", 116 Walkerville Terrace, Walkerville, which she filled with her own and her students' art, and with a lovingly tended native bird garden punctuated with sculptures by William Ricketts and her nephew Quintin Gilbert Harris (1928–1985), son of J. B. Harris (above). Her bequest of this home to the Town of Walkerville was declined, but the Council did accept the many works of art, including sculptures by her friend Ola Cohn.^[3] She was a leading member of Adelaide's Lyceum Club.

Personal life

Harris was a member of the Society of Friends, worshipping at the Friends Meeting House, North Adelaide. In common with a great number of Quakers she was active in the peace movement, and was a vegetarian.

Exhibitions

• Her first one-woman show was held in March 1927 at the Society of Arts' gallery at the Institute building, North Terrace, which brought her versatility to public attention.^[4]
• "The Testament of Beauty" with nine of her students, including Ivor Francis and David Dallwitz in November 1939 was held at the Australian Art Gallery, Rundle Street.^[5] The exhibition's title comes from a poem by Robert Bridges.
• A one-woman show in April 1946 attracted a predominantly female audience.^[6]
• A retrospective exhibition of her work was held in 1986^[3]

Collections

• Many of her works are held by the Town of Walkerville
• Several of her woodcut and linocut prints are held by the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery^[3]
• The Art Gallery of South Australia has one item: an embroidered firescreen The Indian upon God, carved frame by Edwin Newsham (1891–1989).

Publications

Harris was a prolific writer; her Art, the Torch of Life was published by Rigby, Ltd. in 1946^[7] and much else is held by the State Library of South Australia in manuscript or typescript form.^[8]

• The Skyline, a one act play in four scenes written after the death of her brother in Flanders during World War I.
• Harris, Mary Packer (1971), In One Splendour Spun : autobiography of a Quaker artist, M.P. Harris, retrieved 1 September 2016
• Harris, Mary Packer (1948), The Cosmic Rhythm of Art and Literature (aka Art the Torch of Life), Cork, retrieved 1 September 2016

References

1.  "Art on the Railways". The Register (Adelaide). Vol. XCI, no. 26, 589. South Australia. 17 March 1926. p. 11. Retrieved 1 September 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
2.  Tuck, Ruth, "Mary Packer Harris (1891–1978)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 22 January 2025
3.  Menz, Christopher Menz. "Mary Packer Harris". Retrieved 1 September 2016.
4.  "Posters and Paintings". The News (Adelaide). Vol. VIII, no. 1, 155. South Australia. 28 March 1927. p. 8. Retrieved 2 September 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
5.  "Novel Crafts At Art Exhibition". The Advertiser (Adelaide). South Australia. 1 November 1939. p. 9. Retrieved 1 September 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
6.  "Art Show". The News (Adelaide). Vol. 46, no. 7, 079. South Australia. 10 April 1946. p. 7. Retrieved 1 September 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
7.  "20,000 Years of Artists And Of Art". The News (Adelaide). Vol. 47, no. 7, 290. South Australia. 13 December 1946. p. 2. Retrieved 1 September 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
8.  "Harris, Mary Packer, 1891-1978 PRG 657" (PDF). State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 1 September 2016.

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Categories: 

• People educated at Morrison's Academy
• People educated at Perth Academy
• Alumni of the Edinburgh College of Art
• 20th-century Australian painters
• 20th-century Australian women painters
• Australian art educators
• Australian women art educators
• 1891 births
• 1978 deaths

Barrie Pittock - Wikipedia

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Albert Barrie Pittock
Born 1938 (age 86–87)

Camberwell Victoria Australia
Died 03 October 2024

Melbourne, Victoria
Citizenship Australia
Education
Camberwell High School
Melbourne University
Known for
Indigenous rights
Climate change
2007 IPCC Nobel Peace Prize
Quakerism
Spouse Diana Pittock
Children
Jamie Pittock
Mathew Pittock
Chris Pittock
Scientific career
Institutions CSIRO (1965–1999)
Thesis (1963)


Albert Barrie Pittock (born 1938)[1] is an Australian climatologist, environment scientist, author, and advocate for the rights of Indigenous Australians. He was among the many recipients of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.

Early life and education

Barrie Pittock was born in Warrnambool, and grew up in Camberwell, Victoria, Australia. After attending Camberwell High School, he studied at Melbourne University, and attained his PhD in physics in 1963. While there became concerned about the educational (and other) inequalities facing Aboriginal communities in outback Australia.

Human rights

From his teenage years onwards, but especially in the 1960s, Pittock was an active campaigner for Indigenous rights and educational opportunities for Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander people.

As a member of the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, he became the convener of its Legislative Reform group in 1966, which led to his extensive involvement in the 1967 Aboriginal referendum and 1968 Aboriginal land rights campaigns.

He served on the committee of the Victorian Association for Immigration Reform from its formation in 1960, and on the Quaker Service Council of Australia from its inception in 1964.

Climate change

In the 1970s he became aware of the potential for a global "nuclear winter" should warfare break out in the Northern Hemisphere, and of the slow progressive warming of the climate generally. He has written extensively on climate change, and been a campaigner for government policy to address it.

In the 1990s he was a member of the Climate Impact Group within the CSIRO, and was one of 16 Australian delegates to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Awards

In 2019 he was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia.

Pittock was a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that received the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize jointly with Al Gore.[2][3]

In 1999 he was awarded an Australian Government Public Service Medal.

Upon graduating in 1963, he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, United States.

Personal life

In 1956 Pittock was a conscientious objector to compulsory military training associated with the Korean War, and began attending Quaker meetings, where he was drawn to the testimonies of peace and equality. In 1959 he was formally accepted into membership of the Victoria Regional Meeting of Quakers in Australia.

In 1969 he presented the sixth James Backhouse Lecture "Toward a Multi-Racial Society".

After his retirement in 1999, Pittock continued writing and campaigning for climate change mitigation and for Indigenous rights, but his writing and other activities have dwindled since he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2014.

He was a featured resident of Mayflower Village in 2019.[4]

References
"Pittock, Albert (Barrie) (1938 - )". Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation. Retrieved 11 December 2022.
"The Nobel Peace Prize 2007". Retrieved 8 September 2022.
"Climate Change 2001: Synthesis Report" (PDF). Retrieved 8 September 2022.
"Meet Nobel Prize Winner, Dr Barrie Pittock". Retrieved 8 September 2022.

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