Nancy Wilmot Borlase b. 24 March 1914

Also known as Nancy Borlase
  • Artist (Sculptor),
  • Artist (Painter)
New Zealand-born Nancy Wilmot Borlase arrived in Sydney in 1937, studying sculpture under Lyndon Dadswell under space restrictions in her small bed-sit forced a change to painting. Increasingly inspired by the Abstract Expressionist movements in Europe and New York, Borlase won the Portia Geach Memorial Prize in 2000 for her portrait of Marie and Vida Breckenridge.

Citations

  • Saines, Deborah Durie (1993), 'Interview with the artist’, Unknown.

  • France, Christine (1991), 'New Directions 1952-1962’, Lewers Bequest catalogue, Penrith, NSW.

  • Gardiner, Sue (curator) (2001), 'Leaping Boundaries: A century of New Zealand Artists in Australia’, Mosman Art Gallery catalogue, Mosman, NSW.

  • McCulloch, Alan & McCulloch, Susan (1994), 'The Encyclopedia of Australian Art’, St Leonards, NSW.

  • Docking, Gil & Wrobel, Elinor (1994), 'Nancy Borlase Retrospective’, Newcastle Regional Art Gallery catalogue, Newcastle, NSW.

  • Smee, Sebastian (2000), 'Borlase pays homage to The Sisters even death can’t separate’, Sydney Morning Herald, 10-13.

  • Brown, Malcolm (2006), 'A palette of art and politics : Nancy Borlase, 1914-2006’, Sydney Morning Herald, 09-15, p 18.

See also

  • 'Heritage: section 2, plate 90'.

Initial data sources

  • Heritage with additions