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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associate of
Lyndon Dadswell
1908
Artist (Sculptor)
associate of
Frank Charles Medworth
1892
Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator), Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Grace Crowley
1890
Artist (Painter)
associate of
Helen Dora Lempriere
1907
Artist (Draughtsman), Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Sculptor), Artist (Painter)
associate of
George Bell
Artist
associate of
Rah Fizelle
Artist (Painter)
associate of
Rita Angus
Artist
associate of
Francis Shurrock
Other occupation
associate of
John Moorehouse
Other occupation
child of
Edward Norris Borlase
Other occupation
child of
née Morecroft Bessie Borlase
Other occupation
spouse of
Laurie Short
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parent of
Susannah Short
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  • Nancy Borlase retrospective (exhibited at)
  • Nancy Borlase 1940-1980 (exhibited at)
  • Eveolution: An exhibition of women's art from the Newcastle Region Art Gallery collection (exhibited at)
  • Review (exhibited at)
  • Australian Women Artists of the Twentieth Century from the collection of Elinor and Fred Wrobel (exhibited at)
  • Women and Art (exhibited at)
  • Mike Brown Appeal Fund Exhibition (exhibited at)
  • Women Painters: 1st Annual Exhibition (exhibited at)
  • 32nd annual C.A.S. exhibition (exhibited at)
  • Metropolis 1: an exhibition by twenty-one prominent Sydney painters (exhibited at)
  • Exhibition by Australian women artists (exhibited at)
  • Nancy Borlanse Retrospective (exhibited at)
  • (solo exhibition) (exhibited at)
  • Nancy Borlase retrospective (exhibited at)
  • Nancy Borlase 1940-1980 (exhibited at)
  • Eveolution: An exhibition of women's art from the Newcastle Region Art Gallery collection (exhibited at)
  • Review (exhibited at)
  • Australian Women Artists of the Twentieth Century from the collection of Elinor and Fred Wrobel (exhibited at)
  • Women and Art (exhibited at)
  • Mike Brown Appeal Fund Exhibition (exhibited at)
  • Women Painters: 1st Annual Exhibition (exhibited at)
  • 32nd annual C.A.S. exhibition (exhibited at)
  • Metropolis 1: an exhibition by twenty-one prominent Sydney painters (exhibited at)