Gustave Barnes

Gustave Adrian "Gus" Barnes (9 May 1877 – 14 March 1921) was an English violinist, painter and sculptor with a significant career in South Australia, notably as curator at the Art Gallery.

They specialised in fibrous plaster and pressed cement, and their work is evident in the Steamship building, the Art Gallery and Savings Bank of South Australia, to name a few.

[2] Barnes obtained employment at the Doulton pottery works as a designer, painter and modeller, and during his evenings studied at the Royal College of Art, South Kensington.

[citation needed] Barnes took up painting at a relatively late age, and some of his work suggests that had he lived longer he might have reached a higher position in Australian art than is usually given him.

[11] He built a large scale model illustrating the Gallipoli campaign which was displayed at the Library, and a relief map, which went to the Department of Defence's war museum.