Ailsa O'Connor b. 1921

Also known as Ailsa Margaret Donaldson, Ailsa Margaret O'Connor
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Sculptor),
  • Artist (Painter)
Ailsa O'Connor was a painter, sculptor, print maker, author and teacher. She studied at both the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and Melbourne University and was politically active, joining the Communist Party of Australia in 1944. She later initiated the Asian Australian Child Art Exchange and represented Victoria at the World Congress of Women in Copenhagen in 1953.

Citations

  • Burke, Janine (1990), 'A Field of Vision, a Decade of Change: Women’s Art in the Seventies’, Ringwood Victoria, illustrated reprint of interview first published in Lip nos.2-3, 1977.

  • Kirby, Sandy (1995), 'Ailsa O’Connor’, Heritage, edited by Kerr, Joan, Sydney, 132-133.

  • O’Connor, Ailsa (1982), 'Unfinished Work’, Richmond, VIC.

See also

  • 'section 5, plate 219'.

Initial data sources

  • Heritage: The National Women's Art Book