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Western Australian Women Indigenous artists - Australia's Culture Portal

Image courtesy of Mangkaja Arts. Women have different Dreaming stories and law to men, and many of the women artists experienced pre-contact traditional life. The first wave of Aboriginal women artists in Western Australia includes Queenie McKenzie, Madi...

Contemporary Australian Art - Australia's Culture Portal

Image courtesy of the artist and the National Gallery of Victoria. Contemporary art is defined as art that is current, offering a fresh perspective and point of view, and often employing new techniques and new media. These confronting public art projects...

The Canning Stock Route - Australia's Culture Portal

Creating the Canning Stock Route was the answer to a host of challenges presented by the Australian outback. Surveyed and created in the early 1900s, the scale of the Canning Stock Route is epic. John Carty, oral historian and anthropologist from the Au...

Grace Cossington Smith - Australia's Culture Portal

Grace Cossington Smith (1892-1984) was a leading Sydney painter in the Australian modernist movement, and her painting The Sock Knitter (1915) is generally regarded as Australia's first modernist work. Grace Cossington Smith, The Bridge in-Curve, c.1930, ...

Australian Indigenous art - Australia's Culture Portal

Bark Painting, Evans Collection, Northern Territory Library. Image courtesy of the Northern Territory Library and the National Library of Australia. Australian Indigenous art is the oldest ongoing tradition of art in the world. ...

Papunya Tula art movement of the Western Desert - Australia's Culture Portal

The emergence of 'dot' paintings by Indigenous men from the western deserts of Central Australia in the early 1970s has been called the greatest art movement of the twentieth century. Papunya was described as a 'centralised government settlement establis...

Margaret Olley - Australia's Culture Portal

The art of Margaret Olley is the art of deliberate choices. Olley's art teacher at Somerville House persuaded Olley's parents to send Margaret to art school. Margaret Olley is represented at the National Gallery of Australia, the Art Gallery of NSW, the...

Margaret Preston - Australia's Culture Portal

Margaret Preston was an Australian painter and printmaker who was a leading example of early Australian modernism. Her essays and articles were published in Australian journals including Art in Australia , Undergrowth, Jindyworobak Review and Australia N...

The Portia Geach Memorial Award - Australia's Culture Portal

Winner of the 2007 Portia Geach Award. The Portia Geach Memorial Award is recognised as one of the most important celebrations of the talents and creativity of Australian female portrait painters. Winner of the 1992 Portia Geach Award. ...

Women in wartime - Australia's Culture Portal

Image courtesy of the Australian War Memorial. The involvement of Australian women in each war is closely connected to their role in society at different times, and the nature of each war. Australia has been involved in a number of wars including The Boer...

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Beyond the Picket Fence: Australian Women's Art in the National Library's Collections   (more info)

The works in this online exhibition show that women artists went beyond the immediate boundaries of their lives - beyond their picket fence to record a vast range of interests with a vitality and enthusiasm which enables these works individually and as a

Julalikari Council Women's Arts and Crafts Centre   (more info)

The Julalikari Council Women's Arts and Crafts Centre represents women artists from an enormous range of traditional country in the Barkly Region and beyond, both in artwork and language groups. An online gallery is provided.

Vitalstatistix National Women's Theatre   (more info)

Vitalstatistix fosters, produces and promotes new, live performance that is driven by Australian women artists seeking to engage and expand their audiences, and contribute to the development of an Australian culture. Website gives information on seasons,

Australian Women's Art Register   (more info)

The register is an archive and repository of slides, published material and other written sources, both old and new, documenting Australian women artists, their art practice, their images and their writings. On the website you also find information on wha

Tjanpi Aboriginal Women's Baskets and Crafts   (more info)

Tjanpi (pronounced 'J-um-Py') is the Aboriginal women's basket weaving project and enterprise which started in the Central Western Desert region of Australia. Tjanpi is now a small enterprise which produces baskets, beads, bush medicine and bushtucker at

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Asialink - Vibration: Works by Three Contemporary Australian Women Artists   (website Asialink Centre )

Arts Residency Application Information for 2010 Home > Our Work > Arts > Visual Arts > Exhibition Touring Program > Past Exhibitions > Vibration: Works by Three Contemporary Australian Women Artists An exhibition of work by three artists from Melbourne a...

Women Artists & the Surrealist Movement   (website Experimental Art Foundation )

TITLE Women Artists & the Surrealist Movement AUTHOR CHADWICK, Whitney DESCRIPTION This pioneering book is the most comprehensive treatment of the lives, ideas and art of the remarkable group of women who were an essential part of the Surrealist movement....

From Shadow into Light - south australian Women artists since colonization   (website Experimental Art Foundation )

TITLE From Shadow into Light - south australian Women artists since colonization AUTHOR Shirley Cameron WILSON DESCRIPTION An account of the period, rescuing many names for the record & reproducing many pictures. If you would like further info please use...

About Time- Video, Performance and Installation by 21 Women Artists   (website Experimental Art Foundation )

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Painting Ghosts- Australian Women Artists in Wartime   (website Experimental Art Foundation )

TITLE Painting Ghosts- Australian Women Artists in Wartime AUTHOR SPECK, Catherine DESCRIPTION RETAIL $70 (Click here to convert currency) PUBLISHER Craftsman House CATEGORY visual art If you would like further info please use our REQUEST FORM to send us...