Margaret Dredge b. 1928

Also known as Margaret Vickery
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Painter)
Born in 1928, Margaret Dredge did not have the opportunity to study art until the mid 1950s when she started studying painting with Inez Hutchinson. Early paintings were figurative and still life works, leading into abstraction, she quickly became involved in the Melbourne art scene. Dredge died in 2001.
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exhibited at
Abstraction 12
Date
9 November 2013 - 23 November 2013
Place
Charles Nodrum Gallery, Richmond, Vic
Description

Annual exhibition of artists who excel in abstraction

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Margaret Dredge - Retrospective 1960 to 2001
Date
30 March 2013 - 22 May 2013
Place
Shoalhaven City Arts Centre, NSW
Description

This retrospective of 45 works, including the last finished painting from the studio of the artist, provides a history of her engagement with abstraction and how the love of painting developed into a lyricism that was articulate and emotionally moving.
The exhibition also puts into context the sixteen works held in the M G Dingle & G B Hughes Collection. Curator Max Dingle

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Less is More - More or Less
Date
5 April 2012 - 3 May 2012
Place
Shoalhaven City Arts Centre, NSW
Description

Works by artists from the M G Dingle & G B Hughes Collection who capture a psychological essence or mood and are able to explore the potentialities of elimination without the loss of meaning or self expression. Curator Max Dingle

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Black is the Colour...
Date
2 April 2010 - 26 May 2010
Place
Shoalhaven City Arts Centre, NSW
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Personal Journeys: 40 years of Australian Women's Abstract Art
Date
6 February 2009 - 1 April 2009
Place
Shoalhaven City Arts Centre, NSW
Description

Making of art as a personal journey that can take an artist from a simple idea to an obsession. How to give outward expression to the feelings and emotions involved in living and relating to people and the environment around you. 24 works by 14 artists drawn from the M G Dingle & G B Hughes Collection.

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Margaret Dredge: Impulses of the Mind selected works 1985-2001
Date
19 July 2005 - 30 July 2005
Place
Span Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Margaret Dredge: An Abstract
Date
8 October 2003 - 15 November 2003
Place
ICON Museum of Art, Deakin University, Melbourne, VIC
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Outside Inside
Date
1992
Place
Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
CAE Artists
Date
1990
Place
Ministry of Arts Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Personal Directions
Date
1982
Place
Gryphon Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
Type
Exhibition
Tags
Gryphon Gallery
exhibited at
Henry Worland Memorial Print Award
Date
1981
Place
Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool, VIC
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Printmaking Exhibition
Date
1980
Place
Profile Gallery
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 21st Exhibition
Date
1978
Place
Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Hobart, TAS
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Group Exhibition
Date
1977
Place
Clive Parry Gallery, Beaumaris, VIC
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Pioneer Art Award
Date
1976
Place
Swan Hill Gallery, Swan Hill, VIC
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Shire of Flinders Art Award
Date
1976
Place
Shire of Flinders, VIC
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Mask Show
Date
1976
Place
Mildura Art Centre, Mildura, VIC
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, 19th Exhibition
Date
1975
Place
Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Hobart, TAS
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Inez Hutchison Award
Date
1970
Place
Beaumaris Art Group Studio, VIC
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Corio Prize
Date
1966
Place
Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong, VIC
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Crouch Prize
Date
1966
Place
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, VIC
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Beaumaris Art Group annual exhibitions
Date
1961
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Melbourne Contemporary Artists Group exhibitions
Date
1961 - 1965
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Contemporary Artists Society Group exhibitions
Date
1961 - 1969
Description
Type
Exhibition

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