Contemporary Art and Feminism

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Ormella, Raquel, b. 1969
Artistic practice covering a diverse range of activities, including video, paintings, installations, drawings, and zines.
Updated Dec. 19, 2020
Hanrahan, Barbara, b. 1939
A well-known twentieth-century author as well as painter.
Updated Dec. 11, 2020
Hall, Fiona, b. 1953
Born in 1953 in Sydney, New South Wales, Fiona Hall is an award winning photographer, sculptor and installation artist exploring themes of globalization, colonialism and ...
Updated Dec. 11, 2020
Goodsir, Agnes, b. 1864
Alternating her residency between Paris, London and Melbourne, Agnes painted portraits of some very famous sitters including Bertrand Russell, Leo Tolstoy and Mussolini.
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Foley, Fiona, b. 1964
Painter, printmaker, photographer, sculptor and installation artist, Fiona Foley's work often discusses the hidden histories of Australia's colonial past and its interface with Aboriginal people.
Updated Dec. 11, 2020
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Deacon, Destiny, b. 1957
Destiny Deacon is a Melbourne based photographer, printmaker, mixed media artist, installation artist, broadcaster, writer and performer. She has shown her work in over 120 ...
Updated Dec. 11, 2020
Dawson, Janet, b. 1935
Painter, printmaker and designer working in the mid twentieth century. She studied at the National Gallery School in the 1950s and joined the stable of ...
Updated Dec. 11, 2020
Stewart, Janet Agnes Cumbrae, b. 1883
Early 20th century Melbourne painter and pastellist.
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Cotton, Olive, b. 1911
Olive Cotton's black and white photographs are characterised by their use of light to create ambiguity. For most of her life she was better known ...
Updated Dec. 11, 2020
Binns, Vivienne, b. 1940
Vivienne Binns has worked primarily as a painter, but has also continually worked across media and contexts. She worked almost exclusively with enamelling for a ...
Updated Dec. 11, 2020
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Barbara Cleveland
First called Brown Council, Barbara Cleveland is an Australian artist collective directed by Diana Baker Smith, Frances Barrett, Kate Blackmore, and Kelly Doley, working on ...
Updated Dec. 11, 2020
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Black, Dorrit, b. 1891
A contemporary of Grace Crowley and Ralph Balson, Dorrit Black was both a painter and printmaker, particularly of linocuts. An active member of both the ...
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Cusack, Edith E., b. 1865
Painter and art teacher. Resident of Sydney, New South Wales.
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Bezor, Annette, b. 1950
Annette Bezor was one of the new wave feminist artists to emerge in Adelaide in the 1970s. Her characteristic paintings were studies of voluptuously beautiful ...
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Cassab, Judy, b. 1920
Painter born in Austria. Resident of Sydney she is a prolific and accomplished artist, able to paint portraits in a single sitting if necessary. Cassab ...
Updated Sept. 30, 2019
Varvaressos, Vicki, b. 1949
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 ...
Updated Sept. 2, 2019
MacDonald, Fiona
Female artist who is known to weave with photographs and use collage techniques.
Updated Aug. 30, 2019
Kozic, Maria, b. 1957
Contemporary multi-media artist whose work often deals with gender issues and feminist politics. Her work includes the gigantic inflatable plastic 'Blue Boy' that topped Sydney's ...
Updated Aug. 30, 2019