Barbara Abbott b. 1928

  • Artist (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer), (Draughtsman), (Printmaker), (Industrial / Product Designer)
Sydney-based female sketcher, printmaker and textile artist who passed her final assessment in art school by completing an Aboriginal reference workbook she started in her second year.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1996
Name
Barbara Abbott
Birth date
1928
Gender
Female
Roles
  • Artist (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer)
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
  • Artist (Printmaker)
  • Artist (Industrial / Product Designer)
Residence
  • c.1947- c.1949 Sydney, NSW
Other Occupation
  • Printmaker
  • Teacher
Active Period
  • c.1947- c.1949
Languages
  • English
Training
  • c.1947- c.1949 East Sydney Technical College, Sydney, NSW
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • Black and white artists

art student, made an 'Aboriginal Reference’ student workbook containing sketches, designs and printed textiles for Phyllis Shillito 's design course at East Sydney Technical College (ESTC) in 1947-49 (Powerhouse Museum 96/226/4). She began it in the second year of her four-year course and submitted it as part of her final assessment. Later, Barbara Abbott taught weaving at the Red Cross and had a career as a printmaker (Baddeley, cat. 6).

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
associate of
Phyllis Sykes Shillito
1895
Artist (Painter)
associate of
Red Cross
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
Collections
Citations:
  • Abbott, Barbara, Aboriginal Reference student workbook
  • Joan Kerr Archives, (See Australian Museums Online printout Place: National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT)