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June Ethel Stephenson
June Ethel Stephenson was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on June 3rd 1914. She passed away in 1999. She was a visual artist, more specifically a painter and print-maker. She went to school at the National Gallery and George Bell schools in Melbourne and overseas.

Network of Women Artists
June Stephenson had a network of women artists in Melbourne with whom she was close friends. To name a few: Meg Benwell, Anne Graham, Judith Perrey, and Margaret Dredge. June was part of an exhibition in 1961 of five female artists including Sue MCDougall, Grace Somerville, Margaret Dredge, and Inez Green. The group exhibition was held to assist in raising funds for the Beaumaris Arts Group.

It was at the George Bell School in Toorak that June met her close friend, traveling companion, and fellow artist: Anne Marie Graham. June Stephenson and Anne Graham went on sketching and painting expeditions in the Glasshouse Mountains during the winters of 1972 to 1979 when June lived at Broadbeach on the Gold Coast. She shared an exhibit at The Little Gallery, Davenport, Tasmania with Anne Graham in 1970. They were also both featured in a 1968 exhibition from November 3-15  titled The Essentialists at the Pinacotheca Gallery in Melbourne.