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David Phillips (1929 – 2015)

Title: Brisbane Girls Grammar School Medium: Pencil sketch Date : 1989 Dimensions: 40cm x 25cm Collection category: Images of the School Donated by Margaret Peel (1948), cousin of the artist.

David Phillips was an artist and architect and was involved in many architectural projects in and around the Brisbane area.

His father L.B. Phillips was a member of the Brisbane architectural firm of Hall and Phillips (T. R. Hall and L. B. Phillips). The firm was recognised in a 1936 article of "The Architecture and Building Journal of Queensland" for their industrial, bank and office buildings. David has spoken about his love of sketching “en plein air” where he believed he could capture elements and moments that a camera might miss. In a State Library recorded oral history, he speaks lovingly about the two frangipani trees that still stand on the footpath outside the Main Building, saying that the building was “improved by two lovely frangipanis”. He goes on to say” those two frangipanis outside the Grammar School are to live for really.”

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