Graphic designer, artist, Stanway-Tapp, presumed to be English, designed for E.S. Wigg & Co of Adelaide and Perth. This firm won a medal for stationery at the Paris Exhibition of 1900. He was the influential Art Director at West Australian Newspapers for many years and trained many young graphic artists. Stanway-Tap and his wife were Theosophists.
He exhibited watercolours mostly of wildflowers with the West Australian Society of Arts and produced a series of post cards featuring wildflowers. Stanway-Tap watercolour in the 1904 West Australian Society of Arts Annual Exhibition was described as “[n]oteworthy for its clean colouring and delicacy of its drawing.” A series of wildflower panels were also commented upon. One of Stanway-Tap’s most striking artworks was a futuristic view of Perth in 1929 showing aeroplanes flying over Perth. His wildflower paintings were on display at the art gallery for some years in the middle of the twentieth century.
- Writers:
- Dr Dorothy Erickson
- Date written:
- 2010
- Last updated:
- 2011
