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 1950's 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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Citations

  • Germaine, Max (1990), 'Artists and Galleries of Australia’, Craftsman House, 3rd edition.

  • Anderson, Peter, 'Black is the Colour’, Australian Art Review, Australia, 2010-08, issue 24.

  • McCulloch, Alan and McCulloch, Susan (1994), 'Encyclopedia of Australian Art’, Allen and Unwin, 3rd ed + 1st ed reprints.

  • Beck, Richard, and Missingham, Hal (April 1979), 'Some Australian Artists, photographic exhibition’.

  • Smith, Bernard (July 1965), 'Review of Argus Gallery exhibition’, The Age, Melbourne, VIC, .

  • Smith, Bernard (March 1965), 'Gallery Survey for Moomba Week’, The Age, Melbourne, VIC, .

  • Dingle, Max (2010), 'Black is the Colour…’, Shoalhaven City Arts Centre, Nowra, NSW, Exh. Cat.

  • Dingle, Max (2009), 'Personal Journeys: 40 years of Australian Women’s Abstract Art’, Shoalhaven City Arts Centre, Nowra, NSW, Exh. Cat.

  • 'Family archive: (Dredge, unpublished notes 1971?)’.

  • 'M G Dingle & G B Hughes Collection archive’.

See also

  • ''Margaret Dredge: An Abstract' Catalogue, Deakin University, Geelong, Vic, 2003.'.
  • 'Dingle, Max 'Personal Journeys - 40 years of Australian Women's Abstract Art' Catalogue, Shoalhaven City Arts Centre, Nowra, NSW, 2009'.
  • 'Beck, Richard 1972', 'Portrait of Margaret Dredge in her studio, Sandringham, Victoria 1972'. http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3533012

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Other occupations
  • Tutor (Tutor Council of Adult Education 1976 - 1996)
  • Teacher (ANZSIC code: 8102) (Teacher Beaumaris Art group 1961 - 1976)
  • Tutor (Tutor Council of Adult Education 1976 - 1996)
  • Teacher (Teacher Beaumaris Art group 1961 - 1976)