Education
Born in Balmain, Sydney in 1895, she was educated in Brisbane at Saint Margaret"s Anglican Girls School, and received a Diploma in Art Craftsmanship from the Brisbane Central Technical College in 1913.
Born in Balmain, Sydney in 1895, she was educated in Brisbane at Saint Margaret"s Anglican Girls School, and received a Diploma in Art Craftsmanship from the Brisbane Central Technical College in 1913.
At the college she was strongly influenced by L.J Harvey who initiated her interest in modelling. She further developed her skills in this medium when she was presented with an opportunity to go to London in 1919 through an art scholarship provided by Queensland Wattle League. There she took a position as an assistant sculptor before her acceptance into the Sculpture School of the Royal Academy.
The Daphne Mayo Visiting Professorship in Visual Culture The School of English, Media Studies and Art History at The University of Queensland established the annual Daphne Mayo Visiting Professorship in Visual Culture, featuring each year, a major world figure to visit Brisbane to speak about the latest trends, influences, and theories in their area of visual culture, and to give public lectures and take master classes with postgraduate students at The University of Queensland.
The Annual Daphne Mayo Lecture, also named in her honour, is presented by the University Art Museum and The School of English, Media Studies and Art History, in association with The Alumni Association of The University of Queensland Incorporated. and is dedicated to a leading Australian advocate of the visual arts The University of Queensland Fryer Library holds the Daphne Mayo manuscript collection, comprising correspondence, newspaper clippings, art exhibition catalogues, tools, art works, photographs, notebooks, diaries.