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Vida Lahey
Frances Vida Lahey MBE ( /vaɪdə leɪiː/ '' VEYE-də LAY-ee;'' 26 August 1882 – 29 August 1968) was a prominent artist in Queensland, Australia. She exhibited widely from 1902 until 1965. Early life Frances Vida Lahey was born on 26 August 1882 at Pimpama, Queensland, the daughter of Irish-born farmer David Lahey and his wife Jane Jemima (née Walmsley). She had eleven siblings including conservationist Romeo Lahey. She attended Goytelea School at Southport, and later studied painting at the Brisbane Central Technical College under Godfrey Rivers. Her uncle financed a trip to New Zealand in 1902 which inspired some of her earliest exhibited works, as well as helping to set her up to study in Melbourne. She studied at the National Gallery School, Melbourne under Bernard Hall and Frederick McCubbin in 1905 and again in 1909. During World War I, she travelled to London to be in proximity to her brothers and cousins who were serving with the AIF, as well as to study art when s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pimpama
Pimpama ( ) is a northern Suburbs and localities (Australia), suburb in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. The name is of Aboriginal origin. The suburb contains numerous schools with the first opening in the 1870s. A small farming community grew in the area from the 1860s. It was once a stop for Cobb and Co coach services. Pimpama was the location of the state's first sawmill. Growing arrowroot had become popular from as early as the 1880s. By 1908, the region's arrowroot crop supplied the whole country. More recently the suburb has experienced high rates of housing development due to the availability of land and proximity to the motorway. In the , Pimpama had a population of 24,601 people. Geography Pimpama is located on the Pacific Motorway (Brisbane–Brunswick Heads), Pacific Motorway north of Surfers Paradise. The township of Pimpama is the last remaining rural town on the Pacific Motorway between Brisbane and the Gold Coast. It has a large area of und ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
