Dorothy Braund (1926-2013) was a committed Melbourne Modernist, and member of the George Bell Circle. Her creative life spanned over 70 years, during which she painted daily, engaging with the changing world around her through her art.
Braund brings a refreshingly feminine perspective to her modernist practice; her interest being the relationships between individuals and groups as expressed through the human body: from the public rituals of the Australian beach, to the exclusive intimacy of lovers, and parent and child; Braund loves the body in all its shapes and forms. An observer of human social activity, Braund strives to distill these complex worlds into the elegant and often humorous purity of shape and form evident in her oil paintings and gouaches.
Eastgate Holst
Until 19 March, 2016
Melbourne
Brighton, 1977, gouache on paper, 43 x 56cm
Courtesy the estate of the artist and Eastgate Holst, Melbourne
