Nancy Wilmot Borlase b. 24 March 1914

Also known as Nancy Borlase
  • Artist (Sculptor),
  • Artist (Painter)
New Zealand-born Nancy Wilmot Borlase arrived in Sydney in 1937, studying sculpture under Lyndon Dadswell under space restrictions in her small bed-sit forced a change to painting. Increasingly inspired by the Abstract Expressionist movements in Europe and New York, Borlase won the Portia Geach Memorial Prize in 2000 for her portrait of Marie and Vida Breckenridge.
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painter, was born on 24 March 1914 in Taihape, North Island, New Zealand, youngest of the three daughters of Edward Norris Borlase, manager of Raunui Station near Mount Ruapehu, and Bessie, née Morecroft.

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  • Journalist
  • House cleaner
  • Life model
  • Waitress
  • Fortune teller
  • Lamp-shade maker