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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creator of
PJD Vale
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'Margaret Dredge: An Abstract’ Catalogue, 2003, p18

 
creator of
Words
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'Margaret Dredge: An Abstract’ Catalogue, 2003, p16

 
creator of
No's Doorway
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'Margaret Dredge: An Abstract’ Catalogue, 2003, p15

 
creator of
Untitled
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'Margaret Dredge: An Abstract’ Catalogue, 2003, p14

 
creator of
Korea
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'Margaret Dredge: An Abstract’ Catalogue, 2003, p13

 
creator of
Gippsomania
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'Margaret Dredge: An Abstract’ Catalogue, 2003, p19

 
creator of
Untitled
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'Margaret Dredge: An Abstract’ Catalogue, 2003, p17

 
creator of
The mask cried to me
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'Margaret Dredge: An Abstract’ Catalogue, 2003, p12

 
creator of
Boardwalk
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'Margaret Dredge: An Abstract’ Catalogue, 2003, p11

 
creator of
Untitled
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'Margaret Dredge: An Abstract’ Catalogue, 2003, p10

 
creator of
Attack
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'Margaret Dredge: An Abstract’ Catalogue, 2003, p9

 
creator of
Missing
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'Margaret Dredge: An Abstract’ Catalogue, 2003, p8

 
creator of
Dense Landscape
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'Margaret Dredge: An Abstract’ Catalogue, 2003, p7

 
creator of
Untitled
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URL
http://collections.geelonggallery.org.au/emuwebgag/pages/gag/Display.php?irn=3291&QueryPage=

Acc. no. 2005.1

 
creator of
Homonculus through the looking glass
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'Personal Journeys’ Catalogue, 2009, p21

 
creator of
Nomadic Journey
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'Personal Journeys’ Catalogue, 2009, p20

 
creator of
Untitled
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'Black is the Colour’, Catalogue, 2010, p13

 
creator of
Untitled
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'Personal Journeys’ Catalogue, 2009, p18

 
creator of
Untitled (black/white geometric)
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'Black is the Colour’, Catalogue, 2010, p12

 
creator of
Ajax
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'Personal Journeys’ Catalogue, 2009, p19

 
creator of
Untitled ( red & black abstract)
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'Personal Journeys’ Catalogue, 2009, p17

 

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