John Rodriquez b. 1929

  • Artist (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer)
Rodriquez is a textile designer and manufacturer with training at Melbourne Technical College (later RMIT). He studied industrial design and begun making greeting cards in 1952, later moving into textile printing with his wife Nan in the Melbourne suburb of Highett. From a base in Victoria, he began manufacturing in 1957, later expanding to two factories by 1972.
Tags: Industrial design, Textile design
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exhibited at
1956 Olympic Arts Festival, Melbourne
Date
1 January 1956
Place
Melbourne, Victoria
Description

1956 Olympic Arts Festival, Melbourne. Melbourne’s Cultural Olympiad included five significant exhibitions: architecture and sculpture at the University of Melbourne’s Wilson Hall; painting and drawing at the National Gallery of Victoria; Aboriginal art at the National Museum (of Victoria); displays of literature at the Melbourne Public Library and finally graphic arts, industrial design and ceramics at the Royal Melbourne Technical College (now RMIT University). Commercial Arts was curated by the Australian Commercial and Industrial Arts Association, sculpture by H.T. Mill, ceramics by J. Knight and Paintings and Drawings by Ursula Hoff.

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1956 Olympic Arts Festival, industrial design, sculpture, Aboriginal art, Ceramics, painting and drawing, Commercial Art, Textiles, screen-printing
Website
https://www.curvelive.com/Magazine/Archives/nineteen/The-beginning-of-a-design-wave
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exhibited in the 1956 Arts Festival accompanying the Olympics in Melbourne.
exhibited at
1956 Olympic Arts Festival
Date
1956
Place
Melbourne, Vic
Description

Olympic Arts Festival 1956 – Melbourne’s Cultural Olympiad.
Architecture & sculpture – Uni of Melb. Painting & Drawing – NGV, Literature – Melb Public Library. Graphics, Ind Design, Ceramics – Royal Melb Tech College, Aboriginal art – National Museum.

- Neville Bunning, Mollie Douglas, Dyson Studio Pottery, Ivan Englund, Pamela Hallandal, Harold Hughan, Graham Jones, Eileen Keys, John A. Barnard Knight, Henri Le Grand, Allan Lowe, Marguerite Mahood, Martin Boyd, Ivan McMeekin, Klytie Pate, Reg Preston, Peter Rushforth, Edward Shaw, Dorothy Sutherland, Jeffery Wilkinson

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Exhibition
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Melbourne Olympics 1956, Industrial DesignCraft, Textile, Aboriginal Art, Sculpture, Olympic Arts Festival 1956, Melbourne’s Cultural Olympiad
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