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| A Guide for Biographical
Research of Australian Women Artists
The Information Folders and Slide Kits held by the Women's Art Register are available for public viewing at the Richmond Public Library, Melbourne, during Library opening hours. They contain slides of work, biographical information, catalogues and newspaper clippings relating to hundreds of Australian women artists historic and contemporary. The best source of information on historic Australian women artists pre 1955 is "Heritage" - Ed Joan Kerr -see below. For those who can't get to the Register's archives in person, here are some publications that will assist in gathering information. |
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This
forthcoming publication charts the life and work of a remarkable member
of the Women's' Art Register and one of Australia's foremost art historians.
Joan Kerr made a substantial contribution to writing the history of many fields hardly touched on by academics, curators and art critics until the 1970s and 1980s: Colonial Architecture, Colonial Art, Women's Art, Indigenous Art, Popular Culture. She worked tirelessly to change the face of art history and expand the range of artists and artforms considered to shape the history of and heritage of all Australians and championed the cause of overlooked Australian artists, from artists working a century ago to teenage producers of `Zines. It was no surprise that Joan Kerr considered the Women's Art Register to be an important cultural treasure of Australia. She was a great supporter of The Register for over twenty years. This biography of Joan Kerr
by James Sempler Kerr is available only through private subscription. You
can take out a subscription for this book by email
to fclune @ fclune. com. au and ask for the glossy brochure with
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"More
Than Just Gumtrees" a history of the Melbourne Society
of Women Painters and Sculptors - includes several hundred biographies
of members from 1902 to present day.
"The Story of Australian
Art", William Moore , published Angus & Robertson Sydney 1980.
"The George Bell School: students, friends and influences" by Mary Eagle and Jan Minchin, Resolution Press, Sydney 1981. Biographies of Australian women artists from 1930s to 1970s.
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The best source
of information on historic Australian women artists pre 1955 is "Heritage"
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Kerr, Joan (ed.), Heritage: the national women's art book, 500 works by 500 Australian women artists from colonial times to 1955. Published by Art and Australia in Association with the Dictionary of Australian Artists 1955 Also see one of many women's art exhibitions in Australia - online inspired by Joan Kerr here Also : Kerr, Joan (ed.), The dictionary of Australian artists-painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870 (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1992) |
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"Modern Australian women:
paintings & prints 1925-1945" by Jane Hylton, published
Adelaide, South Australia, Art Gallery of South Australia,
2000.
Many full colour illustrations
of the most famous and talented women artists working in Australia in the
interwar years (1920-1940), includes biographical information.
For information about Australian women's art from the 1950s to the 1980s see "Sight lines : women's art and feminist perspectives in Australia " by Sandy Kirby. published Sydney, Craftsman House in association with Gordon and Breach ; New York, 1992 This publication includes details of a wide range of Australian women artists in a variety of media. Dictionary of Women Artists: Edited by Delia Gaze |
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Women Artists and the Cult of Plein Air by Juliet Peers gives a full description of the earliest days of our women pioneers in landscape painting done out doors- Plein Air- in Australia; at such places as Hampton and Heidelberg. There are 15 pages of unique text with many remarkable illustrations which also has an exhaustive bibliography. |
Completing the Picture
Women Artists of the Heidelberg Era, ISBN 0 646 074 93 8 , 1992 Artmoves Women Artists and the Cult of Plein Air - Juliet Peers
Biographies of the Artists:
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The Art Gallery of New South
Wales web-site now features a Data-base of all works in the AGNSW
collection. Many of the entries include digital images of the works and
as digitisation of the entire collection progresses, all works will eventually
have images attached.
As the AGNSW has an important collection of works by Margaret Preston, among many other distinguished Australian Women artists including Thea Proctor, Margel Hinder, and Grace Cossington Smith, |
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| PAINTING GHOSTS: AUSTRALIAN
WOMEN ARTISTS IN WARTIME
By Catherine Speck Craftsman House, $70 November 2004 The Age review - needs registration - free - here Women Official War Artists Stella Bowen WW2 war artist Australian War memorial site here Sybil Craig WW2 war artist War memorial site here Nora Heysen WW2 war artist War memorial site here Isobel RAE or Iso Rae WW1 ofifcal artist here [Wendy Sharpe 1999
"Australian Official Artist" for East Timor.]
Mail address: WOMEN'S ART REGISTER , c/o Richmond Library 415 Church St, Richmond, Vic 3121 Phone (03) 9201 0665 Fax (03) 9201 0655 For more information, you can contact the Women's Art Register email the register |
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