This exhibition honours a key and often obscured aspect of art history; the contribution of women in the development of Australian abstract art from the 1920s to the present. Featuring paintings, drawings, ceramics and sculpture by 38 artists including Dorrit Black, Grace Crowley, Anne Dangar and Margaret Preston, Yvonne Audette, Inge King, Margo Lewers and Janet Dawson, as well as contemporary artists Virginia Cuppaidge, Elizabeth Coats, Debra Dawes and Melinda Harper. Also, major works by Indigenous artists Emily Kame Kngwarreye and Sally Gabori among others.
Grace Crowley (1890-1979), Painting, 1951, oil on hardboard, 58.4 x 70.6cm Purchased 1969. Courtesy National Gallery of Australia, Australian Capital Territory
Newcastle Art Gallery
Until 23 July, 2017
New South Wales
