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women artists

Ethel Carrick and Anne Dangar

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24 December 2024
Ethel Carrick, Christmas Day on Manly Beach (1913), also known as Manly Beach – summer is here, Manly, Manly Art Gallery & Museum Collection (courtesy of National Gallery of Australia)
These paired exhibitions do great credit to the National Gallery of Australia’s program promoting the fortunes of women artists in Australia: Know My Name. After the initial selective survey show that included 150 artists, the Gallery is ‘drilling down’ to heavily researched presentations of historical figures.  ... (read more)

Judy Cassab: A portrait by Brenda Niall

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October 2005, no. 275
Mary Eagle reviews 'Judy Cassab: A portrait' by Brenda Niall

In Brenda Niall’s biography of Judy Cassab, the art forms of the subject and the author – life story and portraiture – are nested one in the other. As the story builds, one comes to accept that certain unsparing reflections on the subject’s personality and behaviour have as their authority Judy Cassab herself. She emerges as a heroine in a decidedly modern mode.

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Australian Women Artists 1840–1940 by Janine Burke

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March 1981, no. 28
Australian women artists

Janine Burke’s Australian Women Artists, 1840–1940 is a memento of the exhibition of women’s art initiated by the Ewing Gallery for 1975, International Women’s Year. An extraordinarily rich exhibition, it convinced me and many others who saw it on its tour of the eastern states, that Australian women painters, for at least the first 30 years of this century, must share the laurels equally with men.

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