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WOMEN ARTISTS – Australia, currently creating

 

Sally Morgan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Morgan_(artist)

Sally Morgan The story of her discovery of her family's past is told in the 1987 multiple biographies My Place, which sold over half a million copies in Australia. It has also been published in Europe, Asia and the United States. – It told a story that many people didn't know; of children taken from their mothers, slavery, abuse and fear because their skin was a different colour.

Wendy Sharpe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Sharpe

https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/artsets/ceq0o5

Wendy Sharpe (born 1960 in Sydney) is an Australian who lives and works in Sydney and Paris. She has a Russian Jewish heritage and counts among her influences paintings by Chaim Soutine and Max Beckmann.

 

I grew up in Sydney and this is where I saw my first ‘real’ paintings….

''I travel often and I live and work part of every year at my apartment/studio in Paris, so I am lucky enough to see many great exhibitions. Even now with such wonderful technology, when it comes to painting, there is nothing like the real thing.''

Sharon Davson

https://www.evi.com/q/sharon_davson_wikipedia

http://www.thefullwiki.org/Sharon_Davson

Nothing on actual Wikipedia re Sharon Davson. What next..,

Maybe make a project??? If I get time.

Online references….

http://www.gwpmagazine.com.au/gwp--online--journal/2012/09/01/who-is-davson-the-5-2m-artist

http://en.cbfau.com/Item/395129.aspx

https://www.gattonstar.com.au/news/lockyer-valley-gallerys-tribute-to-davsons/3167272/

http://www.sciencerhymes.com.au/environmental-poetry

http://www.gattonstar.com.au/news/lets-share-the-faith/3139437/

http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2010/05/28/2911808.htm?site=southeastsa

http://www.thechronicle.com.au/news/gatton-art-sells-13-million/1077683

http://culturehunter.org/sharon-davson/

https://www.thechronicle.com.au/news/12-million-painting-art-show/1295513/

https://www.gattonstar.com.au/news/our-sharons-fame-spreads/2539612/

http://www.robyncaughlan.com/sharon-davson

https://www.wattlerange.sa.gov.au/page.aspx?u=2236

https://www.qt.com.au/news/davson-exhibition-honours-mother/3126801/

World renowned Australian artist, Sharon Davson, grew up in Gatton and studied at the Queensland College of Art, Brisbane. Major exhibitions “Davson ~World Leaders and Enlightenment”.

In the early eighties, Davson bought an old government bus and attached a horse float on the back, and set off on her journey across Australia. She was an environmentalist there was such a word. Her love of nature is evident in her art. One of her painting is in the Takayama Museum in Japan.

Davson’s art and charitable works have been embraced by world leaders from diverse fields and many countries.

Sharon Davson AFDA DipT is an artist, writer, art consultant, fashion designer and moving keynote speaker for major events, conferences, executive functions, workshops and cultural activities. For charitable groups Davson is a tireless worker, fundraiser and donor, an advocate for peace, our Earth and all its disadvantaged.

Mirka Mora

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirka_Mora

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/melbourne-arts/lost-mirka-mora-mural-uncovered-at-former-cafe-balzac-20160826-gr1t6m

 

Josonia Palaitis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josonia_Palaitis

https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/archibald/2006/28288/

 

Annemieke Mein

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annemieke_Mein

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/review/annemieke-meins-barnacles-sculpture-makes-her-the-accidental-feminist/news-story/af731cb9eff23b6d01093f7a65b2406e

 

Aelita Andre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aelita_Andre

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/aelita-andre-9-opens-up-about-her-inspiration-her-future-and-the-her-take-on-the-cosmos/news-story/f5410fc56e3f32913b7ab9b08b3b0176

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/11/what-makes-a-child-an-art-prodigy/382389/

Megan Walch

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megan_Walch

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/canberra-life/artist-megan-walchs-accidental-foray-into-national-politics-20160809-gqo95q.html