Marjorie Woolcock (1898 – 1965) was a painter, sculptor and printmaker. She was born in Melbourne in 1898, the eldest of the six children of Robena Ann (née Black, 1868 – 1954), only daughter of the late Captain Alexander Black, of Aberdeen, Scotland, and Frederick Woolcock (1867 – 1963) a clerk/agent. She studied at the Working Mens’ College (later known as the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) where she was doing an advanced course Modelling the Human Figure from a cast in 1931. She also studied at the George Bell School. In 1936 she exhibited with the Melbourne Society of Women Painters at the Athenaeum: In the 1940’s she shared a studio in St James Building with Louise Thomas, a Miss Bell, and Mabel Crump. She was a foundation member of the Melbourne Contemporary Artists Group, a member of the Victorian Artists Gallery and the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors.
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