Past and Present. National Women's Art Exhibition 1995

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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
Cohn, Ola, b. 1892
Sculptor born in Bendigo, Victoria. Cohn was committed to making sculpture accessible.
Updated Dec. 11, 2020
Christmann, Jenny, b. 1928
Updated Dec. 11, 2020
Chapman, Dora Cecil, b. 1911
Painter, silk-screen printer, potter and art teacher. Resident of South Australia, New South Wales, and England, she was concerned with changing society through social realist ...
Updated Dec. 11, 2020
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Carrick Fox, Ethel, b. 1872
Painter born in England. She was a complex, independent, hard-working, resourceful woman whose chief interests, apart from securing recognition for her late husband's work, were ...
Updated Dec. 11, 2020
Campbell, Barbara, b. 1961
Performance artist. For the final work of her residency at the University of Sydney's Centre for Performance Studies, Campbell inscribed her body with motifs that ...
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
Bowen, Stella, b. 1893
Single-minded in her desire to be an artist, Stella Bowen studied briefly under Margaret Preseon before leaving Adelaide at 20 to study art in London. ...
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 ...
Updated Dec. 11, 2020
Beckett, Clarice, b. 1887
Passionate about the philosophy and practice of painting and inspired by the teachings of Max Meldrum, Beckett practiced her craft at every available moment. As ...
Updated Dec. 11, 2020
Gemes, Juno, b. 1944
Photographer, has exhibited her work in Budapest, Paris and Australia. She specialises in photographs of Aboriginal Australians.
Updated Nov. 29, 2020
Serle, Dora Beatrice, b. 1875
Painter and china painter, Serle was active for over 70 years in Geelong and Melbourne though she studied briefly in England. She received most critical ...
Updated Oct. 22, 2020
Dent, Aileen Rose, b. 1890
Painter who studied at the National Gallery School in Melbourne from 1909-1916. Known for her portraiture, among Dent's better known sitters is Jean Burns, Australia's ...
Updated Oct. 22, 2020
Gude, Eleanor, b. 1915
An accomplished painter from an early age, Eleanor Gude, or Nornie as she was known, took up her studies at the age of 15 before ...
Updated Oct. 22, 2020
Cusack, Aline M., b. 1867
Painter
Updated Sept. 25, 2020
Cusack, Edith E., b. 1865
Painter and art teacher. Resident of Sydney, New South Wales.
Updated Sept. 25, 2020
Daw, Kate, b. 1965
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Carew, Ann
Updated Aug. 15, 2020
Macqueen, Mary, b. 1912
Female watercolour painter and printmaker from Melbourne whose landscapes and pictures of animals have been collected by numerous institutions across the country.
Updated June 22, 2020
Worth, Margaret, b. 1944
Updated May 1, 2020
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Boyd, Emma Minnie, b. 1858
Often remembered as the matriarch of the artistically gifted Boyd family, Emma Minnie was an artist in her own right, exhibiting prolifically in Australia, and ...
Updated Feb. 18, 2020
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 ...
Updated Feb. 12, 2020
Swan, Louisa J.
Early 20th century Tasmanian painter and craftworker.
Updated Jan. 29, 2020
Stoner, Dorothy, b. 1904
Dorothy Stoner supported her career as an artist by teaching art in Tasmania, but she constantly looked to Melbourne, Sydney and Europe for new ways ...
Updated Jan. 29, 2020
Oldham, Isobel, b. 1867
Updated Jan. 29, 2020