Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1973-2013 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
28 boxes, 3 parcels.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Rhyl Hinwood was born in Brisbane in 1940 and her career began in the Queensland Natural History Museum where she worked as an artist for many years. In 1976 she won a commission to complete the carvings in the Great Court of the University of Queensland. She has worked on the design and production of over seven hundred commissioned public artworks for institutions, churches, corporations, organisations, federal, state and local governments as well as for private clients. Rhyl has also produced many major artworks in bronze including the "Man from Snowy River" at Broadbeach, the RAAF Memorial in Queens Park, Brisbane, The Memorial to Australian Forces in Malaya/ Borneo and Korea for Anzac Square Brisbane, and Mary Poppins for the City of Maryborough. Rhyl was awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Philosophy by the University of Queensland in 2001 for her outstanding contribution to the University and to the Visual Arts in Queensland and appointed a Member in the General Division of the Order of Australia in 2006 for her service to the Visual Art - excerpted from Rhyl Hinwood's Biography, 2013.
Name of creator
Repository
Archival history
Collection previously titled as: Papers, 1973-2013
Collection alternatively titled as: Rhyl Hinwood Collection.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Job files, correspondence, photographs, slides, publications.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Unrestricted access.
Conditions governing reproduction
In copyright. Can be reproduced for personal research and study. For other uses see About copyright. Please attribute the Fryer Library.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Uploaded finding aid
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Publication note
Material from this collection has been cited in:
Wilson, K. (2015). Brisbane Art Deco: stories of our built heritage. Upper Mt Gravatt, Queensland: Jubilee Studio.
Notes area
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Libraries Australia ID
OCLC Number
Alma MMS ID
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Hinwood, Rhyl, 1940- (Subject)
- Hinwood, Rob (Robert Andrew), 1930- (Subject)
- University of Queensland (Subject)
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Description control area
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Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
Status
Revised
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
Revised, Linda Justo, 17-Aug-2021. Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.