Name

Ellis Silas

Other names

Silas, Ellis Luciano.

Culture

Australian | English

Gender

Male

Birth date

13 July 1885

Birth place

London, England View on map Close map

Death date

2 May 1972

Death Place

London, England View on map Close map

Movements

Australia, Papua New Guinea 1907-24

Occupations

Actor | Artist (painter) | Poster artist

Summary

Worked: England, Australia, Papua New Guinea

Context

Australia | Papua New Guinea

Biography

Ellis Silas was born 1883 in London, England, and studied with his father designing interiors and textiles before studies in the studio of Walter Sickert. He travelled to Australia in 1907, enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force in the first world war, fought at Anzac Cove becoming an official war artist. Before returning to England in 1925, he travelled to Papua New Guinea, writing and illustrating <i>A primitive arcadia: being the impressions of an artist in Papua New Guinea<i>, published England, 1926. Silas continued to paint and produce posters. He died in England in 1972.