Toni Corso
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The
South Australian School of Art at Stanley Street North Adelaide 1969-71
Diploma of Teaching - Secondary Art, the J course
Memories of Stanley Street
Stanley Street, the trendiest place to be at the time. With lunch time concerts with Daddy Cool in the courtyard before they became known.
General painting with Mr Wilson, general drawing with Tony Bishop, art on location at the zoo, museum and the unkempt banks of the River Torrens.
Robin Wallace-Crabbe, waltzing in as a guest lecturer in painting. Life drawing with Ron Hawke, design with Ms Mac, craft with Meg Douglas, technical drawing with Phil Chaplin, lettering with Mr White, history of art with Dave Dallwitz. And not forgetting sculpture and ceramics.
Lawrence
of Arabia screening in the art lecture theatre in the first week of
art school.
My favourite time was painting every Friday morning along the banks of the River Torrens at Hackney in an overgrown backyard in a derelict house with our painting group. Mr Wilson would load up the ute with our gear and drop us off down there, where we would paint and sing and laugh to our hearts' content. I remember walking out to Art School from Victoria Square, carrying my big portfolio.
Other
memories are the Art School Ball at the Adelaide Town Hall, parties at
Geoff Wilson's house at Belair, travelling
to and fro to Art School with Chris Orchard in his grey Austin or
alternatively travelling with my friend
Jeanette in her Volksy.
I remember Stanley Street fondly, with fun and laughter and friends and doing what I loved to do.