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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exhibited at
Eveolution: An exhibition of women's art from the Newcastle Region Art Gallery collection
Date
9 March 1995 - June 1995
Place
Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle, NSW
Description

Opened by Deborah Mills and the Lord Mayor of Newcastle, 8 March 1995. Curator: Annette Larkin.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
Review
Date
8 March 1995 - 8 June 1995
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description

Speaking of Women, four guest lectures; by Nancy Underhill, Ann Thomson, Margo Neale, Joan Kerr; held over successive Fridays, 10-31 March 1995, by the Art Gallery Society.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
Nancy Borlanse Retrospective
Date
1994
Place
Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Nancy Borlase retrospective
Date
1994
Place
Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle, NSW
Description

A Newcastle Regional Art Gallery touring exhibition – toured to 5 regional galleries. Funded by Regional Galleries Association of NSW, NSW Ministry for the Arts, Australia Council.

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

Exhibition Catalogue:
Nancy Borlase retrospective. Newcastle, NSW: Newcastle Region Art Gallery, 1994.
ISBN 0909115486

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Retrospective, Painting
exhibited at
Nancy Borlase 1940-1980
Date
1987
Place
Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong, NSW
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Wollongong City Gallery annual report

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Retrospective, Painting
exhibited at
(solo exhibition)
Date
1960
Place
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition

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  • (solo exhibition) (exhibited at)
  • Nancy Borlase retrospective (exhibited at)
  • Nancy Borlase 1940-1980 (exhibited at)
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