Vicki Varvaressos b. 1949

  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Vicki Varvaressos is a Sydney based artist whose early work was influenced by the urban activism of Victoria street, in Sydney's Wooloomooloo. Her distinctive painterly style came to characterise new wave feminism of the 1970s. Later her style evolved into a painterly abstraction as well as meditative portraits.
Tags: feminism, expressionism, painterly
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.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
With a Brush in Her Hand: Works from the Howard Hinton, Coventry and NERAM collections
Date
9 March 1995 - April 1995
Place
New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, NSW
Description

Opened 8 March 1995

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
The Women's View: Australian women artists in the Bendigo Art Gallery, 1888-1995
Date
8 March 1995 - 2 April 1995
Place
Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, Vic.
Description

Opening, including Joe Dolce and Linn van Kek, performance 'Difficult Women’, 8 March 1995

Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
The Best Face Value for Autumn: Work from the collection
Date
3 March 1995 - 7 May 1995
Place
Wollongong City Art Gallery, Wollongong, NSW
Description

Opened by Joan Brassil, 8 March 1995.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
Modern Women
Date
3 March 1995 - 31 March 1995
Place
Gold Coast City Gallery, Gold Coast, Qld
Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
Women at Watters
Date
22 February 1995 - 11 March 1995
Place
Watters Gallery, East Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition, Watters Gallery
exhibited at
In the Company of Women: 100 years of Australian women's art from the Cruthers collection
Date
16 February 1995 - 13 March 1995
Place
PICA (Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts), WA
Description

Opened by Dr Liz Constable MLA, Member for Floreat, 15 February 1995

Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
Transformations: Australian Perspecta '85: Project 50
Date
24 October 1985 - 1985
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Australian women artists
Date
6 October 1982 - 23 October 1982
Place
Myer Blaxland Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales
Type
Exhibition
Tags
Women and the Arts Festival