Mirka Madeleine Mora b. 1928

Also known as Mirka Mora
  • Artist (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer),
  • Artist (Painter)
Exuberant continental immigrant artist - with her husband Georges, brought life and energy to the Melbourne art and restaurant scene of the 1950's.
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exhibited at
Mirka Mora: where angels fear to tread: 50 years of art 1948-1998
Date
1999
Place
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, VIC
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Heide exhibition archive; UTAS catalogue; AGNSW Library catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Mirka Mora: where angels fear to tread: 50 years of art 1948-1998 / compiled by Max Delany and Murrary White. Bulleen, Vic: Museum of Modern Art at Heide, 1999
ISBN 0947104534

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Retrospective, Painting
exhibited at
Embroideries of Mirka Mora
Date
1978
Place
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, VIC
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
BFAG annual report; UTAS catalogue

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Textiles

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