Australian Feminist Art Timeline
Encyclopedia
Australian Feminist Art Timeline lists exhibitions, artists, artworks and milestones that have contributed to discussion and development of feminist art in Australia. The timeline focuses on the impact of feminism
on Australian contemporary art
. It was initiated by The View From Here: 19 Perspectives on Feminism, an exhibition and publishing project held at West Space as part of the 2010 Next Wave Festival.
, Watters Gallery, Sydney.
The exhibition of paintings and sculptures showing symbolic representations of genitalia was considered outrageous at the time.
1967 Artwork: Vivienne Binns
, Vag dens, 1967, synthetic polymer paint and enamel on composition board. Collection of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
publishes The Female Eunuch
1974 Exhibition: A Room of One's Own: Three Women Artists Ewing Gallery, University of Melbourne, co-curated by Kiffy Rubbo, Lynne Cooke
and Janine Burke
Artists: Lesley Dumbrell, Julie Irving, Ann Newmarch
1975 International Women's Year
1975 American feminist writer Lucy R. Lippard
conducts Australian lecture tour.
1975 Exhibition: Australian Women Artists: 1840-1940, Ewing Gallery and George Paton Galleries, University of Melbourne; Art Gallery of NSW; Newcastle Region Art Gallery; Art Gallery of South Australia
, curated by Janine Burke
.
1975 Victorian Women's Art Movement founded http://www.womensartregister.org
1975 Women's Art Register established in Melbourne. One of the founders was painter Erica McGilchrist.
1975 Artwork: Ann Newmarch Vietnam Madonna
1975 Hecate: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Women's Liberation established, edited by Carole Ferrier
(1975-present)
1975 Women's Studies Resource Centre
established, Adelaide, South Australia
1976 Launch of Melbourne-based art journal LIP A Journal of Women in the Visual Arts (1975–1983).
1976 Women's Art Movement established, Adelaide, South Australia
1978 Artwork: Ann Newmarch, Women hold up half the sky! 1978
1978 Exhibition: The Women's Show, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
1978-80 Performance: Lyndal Jones, The At Home Series, performances in the series held at La Mama Theatre, Melbourne, George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne, RMIT, Melbourne, 110 Chambers Street, New York
painted her sexual fantasy pictures of actor Sam Neill
. While the paintings followed in the tradition of the Burt Reynolds
nude centrefold in Cosmopolitan in 1972, in 1980s Australia the artist raised eyebrows for depicting a man as a sex object.
1980 Performance: Bonita Ely, Bread Line, Anzart, Christchurch, New Zealand
1980 Performance: Bonita Ely, Murray River Punch, George Paton and Ewing Gallery, Melbourne University. Women at Work, a festival of women's performance art.
1980 Performance: Jill Orr, Split- Fragile Relationships, George Paton and Ewing Gallery, Melbourne University. Women at Work, a festival of women's performance art.
1980 Women at Work : a week of women's performance, June 1980. George Paton and Ewing Gallery, Melbourne University. Artists included Jill Orr and Bonita Ely.
1982 Betty Churcher
appointed Dean of the School of Art and Design at Melbourne's Phillip Institute of Technology, she is the first female head of an Australian tertiary institution.
1982 Rosalie Gascoigne
is the first female artist to represent Australia at the Venice Biennale
1983 Janine Burke's Joy Hester published.
1984 Artwork: Julie Rrap
, Persona and Shadows (series), 1984, photographic collage
1985 Project: Coordinated by Carolyn Lewens and five photographers from Lewen's TAFE women's photography course, Prahran Neighbourhood House women's photography project, 1985, photographic panels documenting the activities of women at the Neighbourhood House under certain themes including child-care, after school activities, home environments and porttraits.
1987 Betty Churcher
appointed Director of the Art Gallery of Western Australia
, she is the first female director of a state art gallery.
1987 Exhibition: Feminist Narratives, George Paton Gallery, curated by Juliana Engberg. Artists: Pat Brassington, Debra Dawes, Leah MacKinnon, Andrea Paton, Ann Wulf.
1988 Exhibition: Judy Chicago
(American) The Dinner Party
(1979), Melbourne Exhibition Buildings.
1989 Artwork: Something More by Tracey Moffatt
.
appointed director of the National Gallery of Australia (1990–1997), she is the first female director of the gallery.
1991 Exhibition: Frames of Reference: Aspects of Feminism and Art, Artspace, Sydney, curated by Sally Couacaud.
Artists: Kathy Temin, Susan Norrie, Vivienne Binns, Rebecca Cummins, Anne MacDonald
1991 Manifesto: VNS Matrix
(Virginia Barratt, Francesca da Rimini, Juliane Pierce, Josephine Starrs), Cyberfeminist Manifesto for the 21st Century, Adelaide. http://www.sysx.org/gashgirl/VNS/TEXT/PINKMANI.HTM
The manifesto was distributed on street posters around Adelaide. VNS Matrix was an artist collective founded in Adelaide and active 1991-1997. VNS Matrix is pronounced 'Venus Matrix'.
1992 Exhibition: Feminisms: An Exhibition of 27 Women Artists, PICA
, Perth, curated by Nikki Miller.
1992 Caroline Chisholm
's likeness on the Australian 5 dollar note
replaced by portrait of Queen Elizabeth II.
1994 Exhibition: The Women's Show, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
1995 Exhibition WWWO : Wollongong Worlds Women Online, first national Australian online women's group exhibition, featuring the first or early digital works from 30 women including Francis Dyson and Mez Breeze
. Curators Melinda Rackham
, Louise Manner, Ali Smith, Sandy Indlekofer-O’Sullivan.
1995 National Women's Art Exhibition, simultaneous exhibitions in over 147 galleries, museums and libraries.
1995 Exhibition: VNS Matrix: ALL NEW GEN, (VNS Matrix
: Virginia Barratt, Francesca da Rimini, Juliane Pierce, Josephine Starrs), ACCA, Melbourne. Part of the National Women's Art Exhibition.
1995 Exhibition: In the Company of Women: 100 years of Australian women's art from the Cruthers Collection, PICA
, Perth, curated by Sarah Miller. Part of the National Women's Art Exhibition.
1995 Exhibition: Bur-ran-gur ang (court out): Women and the law, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth, curated by Annette Pedersen. Part of the National Women's Art Exhibition.
1995 Exhibition: Out of the Void: Mad and Bad Women, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, touring Queensland. Part of the National Women's Art Exhibition.
1995 Exhibition: Girls Girls Girls, Annandale Galleries, Sydney, also Orange Regional Gallery. Women's show to mark the 20th Anniversary of the United Nations, Year of the Woman.
1995 Beyond the Picket Fence: Australian women's art in the National Library of Australia, National Library of Australia
1996 Lynne Cooke
, first female artistic director of the Biennale of Sydney
1996 Manifesto: VNS Matrix
(Virginia Barratt, Francesca da Rimini, Juliane Pierce, Josephine Starrs) Bitch Mutant Manifesto, Adelaide.
1996 Exhibition: Women Hold Up Half the Sky: the Orientation of Art in the Post-War Pacific, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, curated by Roger Butler.
Artists: Micky Allan, Vivienne Binns, Kate Daw, eX de Medici, Diena Georgetti, Joan Grounds, Helga Groves, Indulkana Community, Emily Kame Kngwarreye
, Narell Jubelin, Maningrida Arts, Banduk Marika, Ann Newmarch, Margaret Preston
, Thancoupie, Kelly Thompson, Utopia Batik, Toni Warburton, Judy Watson, Robin White
1996 Exhibition: Inside the Visible, Boston: ICA/ MIT: Kanaal Art Foundation, and Touring to Whitechapel, London, and PICA, Perth, Australia, curated by Catherine de Zegher (USA)
1997 Ann Newmarch first living female artist to be given a Retrospective exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia
The Personal is Political in 1997.
1997 Exhibition: Difficult Territory: a postfeminist project, Artspace, Sydney, curated by Kristen Elsby
1999 Guerrilla Girls
brought to Melbourne by RedPlanet for screenprinting workshops and lectures.
1999 Australian feminist art historians Joan Kerr & Jo Holder publish Past present : the national women's art anthology
publishes The Beautiful Boy.
2004 Artwork: Mary Lou Pavlovic Liar! Public Art, Melbourne
2004 Death of Gabrielle Pizzi
, widely admired dealer in contemporary aboriginal art.
2004 Death of Joan Kerr (1938-2004), Australian art historian
2006 Exhibition: Feminist Actions, Spacement, Melbourne, curated by Veronica Tello.
Artists: Andrew Atchison, Pia de Bruyn, Sue Dodd, Sarah Lynch, Alex Martinis Roe, Ali Sanderson, Jessie Scott
2007 Exhibition: Bird Girls, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, VCA, curated by Kate Daw and Vikki McInnes.
Artists: Fiona Abicare, Jessie Angwin, Cate Consandine, Danielle Freakley, Kate Just, Simone Slee, Andrea Tu
2007 Forum: Feminism Never Happened, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne.
Panelists included: Julie Rrap, Alex Martinus Roe, Ann Marsh, Lily Hibberd, Felicity Coleman, Lyndall Walker, Emily Cormack
2007-8 Exhibition: Julie Rrap
: Body Double, MCA, Sydney, curated by Victoria Lynn http://www.mca.com.au/default.asp?page_id=10&content_id=2977
2008 Exhibition: Utopia: The Genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye developed by the National Museum of Australia and shown at the National Museum of Art in Osaka
, Japan.
2008 Exhibition: Lauren Berkowitz/ Starlie Geikie, Neon Parc, Melbourne, curated by Rebecca Coates.
2008 Exhibition: A Time Like This, VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne.
Curated by Samantha Comte, Jirra Lulla Harvey, Kate Rhodes and Meredith Turnbull.
Artists: Louisa Bufardeci, Bindi Cole, Lorraine Connelly-Northey, Eliza Hutchison, Wietske Maas, Kate Smith, Salote Tawale, Annie Wu.
2008 Exhibition: Emily Floyd, Temple of the Female Eunuch, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne.
2008 Exhibition: Girls, Girls, Girls, Carlton Hotel, Melbourne, curated by Lyndal Walker and Nat Thomas.
2008 Australian feminist academic Elizabeth Grosz
publishes Chaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth.
2008 Essay: On Rage by Germaine Greer
, academic, social commentator and collector of Aboriginal art.
2008 Nicole Kidman names her child after arts patron Sunday Reed
(1905 - 1981).
2008 CoUNTess blog launched. Blog compiles and reviews gender equality in the Australian art-world.
2010 Exhibition: Feminism Never Happened, IMA, Brisbane.
Artists: Del Kathryn Barton
, Pat Brassington, Kirsty Bruce, Jacqueline Fraser, Anastasia Klose
, Fiona Lowry, Fiona Pardington, Yvonne Todd, and Jemima Wyman http://www.ima.org.au/pages/exhibitions.php
2010 Exhibition: The View From Here: 19 Perspectives on Feminism, West Space, Melbourne. Curated by Clare Rae and Victoria Bennett.
Artists: Jessie Angwin, Kiera Brew Kurec, Brown Council, Madeleine Donovan, Mariam Haji, Hannah Raisin, Jessie Scott, Hayley Forward and Jessica Olivieri with the Parachutes for Ladies.
Writers: Emilie Zoey Baker, Laura Castagnini, Tamsin Green, Anna Greer, Rachel Fuller, Jo Latham, Dunja Rmandic, Daine Singer, Nella Themelios.
2010 Death of Eva Breuer, at the time one of the major dealers of secondary market Australian paintings. Breuer was one of the few dealers stocking works by notable, lesser known twentieth century female Australian artists: Bessie Davidson, Margaret Cilento, Janet Cumbrae Stewart, Margo Lewers, Jean Bellette, Dorrit Black, Lina Bryans, Nora Heysen, Mirka Mora, Florence Rodway, Jane Sutherland.
2010 Exhibition: The Feminist Salon Group, The Envelope Residency, The West Wing, West Space Project Site, Melbourne. Coordinated by Caroline Phillips and Sarah Lynch. A week long residency by a group of artists and writers engaged with reading and discussing feminist texts, in particular the work of Luce Irigaray. The residency included performance, film, visual art, sound, reading, discussion and a lecture by Dr. Louise Burchill. Participants included Sharon Billinge, Dr. Louise Burchill, Victoria Duckett, Catherine Evans, Janice Gobey, Kate Hodgetts, Kate Just, Anastasia Klose, Angie de Latour, Sarah Lynch, Valentina Palonen, Caroline Phillips, Hannah Raisin, Caroline Thew, Inez de Vega and Jane Whitfid.
Caroline Ambrus
Barbara Bolt
Janine Burke
Anita Callaway
Lynne Cooke
Elizabeth Gertsakis
Janda Gooding
Germaine Greer
Elizabeth Grosz
Pat Hoffie
Jo Holder
Jeanette Hoorn
Caroline Jordan
Anne Kirker
Sandy Kirby (-2011)
Joan Kerr (1938-2004)
Kate MacNeill
Anne Marsh
Catriona Moore
Juliette Peers
Helen Topliss
Anna Voigt
Feminism
Feminism is a collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and equal opportunities for women. Its concepts overlap with those of women's rights...
on Australian contemporary art
Contemporary art
Contemporary art can be defined variously as art produced at this present point in time or art produced since World War II. The definition of the word contemporary would support the first view, but museums of contemporary art commonly define their collections as consisting of art produced...
. It was initiated by The View From Here: 19 Perspectives on Feminism, an exhibition and publishing project held at West Space as part of the 2010 Next Wave Festival.
1960s
1967 Exhibition: Vivienne BinnsVivienne Binns
Vivienne Joyce Binns OAM is an Australian artistBorn in Wyong, New South Wales, Binns studied art at East Sydney Technical College and the National Art School. Her first solo exhibition was in 1967 at Watters Gallery in Sydney. During the 1970s she worked in vitreous enamel, was active in the...
, Watters Gallery, Sydney.
The exhibition of paintings and sculptures showing symbolic representations of genitalia was considered outrageous at the time.
1967 Artwork: Vivienne Binns
Vivienne Binns
Vivienne Joyce Binns OAM is an Australian artistBorn in Wyong, New South Wales, Binns studied art at East Sydney Technical College and the National Art School. Her first solo exhibition was in 1967 at Watters Gallery in Sydney. During the 1970s she worked in vitreous enamel, was active in the...
, Vag dens, 1967, synthetic polymer paint and enamel on composition board. Collection of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
1970s
1970 Germaine GreerGermaine Greer
Germaine Greer is an Australian writer, academic, journalist and scholar of early modern English literature, widely regarded as one of the most significant feminist voices of the later 20th century....
publishes The Female Eunuch
The Female Eunuch
The Female Eunuch is a book first published in 1970 that became an international bestseller and an important text in the feminist movement. The author, Germaine Greer, became well known in broadcast media of the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and her home of Australia...
1974 Exhibition: A Room of One's Own: Three Women Artists Ewing Gallery, University of Melbourne, co-curated by Kiffy Rubbo, Lynne Cooke
Lynne Cooke
Lynne Cooke is the curator at large for the Dia Art Foundation in New York, and chief curator at the Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain. Born in Geelong, Australia, Ms. Cooke received a B.A. from Melbourne University and an M.A. and Ph.D...
and Janine Burke
Janine Burke
Janine Burke, is an author, art historian, biographer and novelist. She has also curated exhibitions of historical and contemporary art. Currently, Dr Burke holds a research fellowship at Monash University....
Artists: Lesley Dumbrell, Julie Irving, Ann Newmarch
1975 International Women's Year
International Women's Year
International Women's Year was the name given to 1975 by the United Nations. Since that year March 8 has been celebrated as International Women's Day, and the United Nations Decade for Women, from 1976–1985, was also established.-International:...
1975 American feminist writer Lucy R. Lippard
Lucy R. Lippard
Lucy Lippard is an internationally known writer, activist and curator from the United States. Lippard was among the first writers to recognize the de-materialization at work in conceptual art and was an early champion of feminist art...
conducts Australian lecture tour.
1975 Exhibition: Australian Women Artists: 1840-1940, Ewing Gallery and George Paton Galleries, University of Melbourne; Art Gallery of NSW; Newcastle Region Art Gallery; Art Gallery of South Australia
Art Gallery of South Australia
The Art Gallery of South Australia , located on the cultural boulevard of North Terrace in Adelaide, is the premier visual arts museum in the Australian state of South Australia. It has a collection of over 35,000 works of art, making it, after the National Gallery of Victoria, the largest state...
, curated by Janine Burke
Janine Burke
Janine Burke, is an author, art historian, biographer and novelist. She has also curated exhibitions of historical and contemporary art. Currently, Dr Burke holds a research fellowship at Monash University....
.
1975 Victorian Women's Art Movement founded http://www.womensartregister.org
1975 Women's Art Register established in Melbourne. One of the founders was painter Erica McGilchrist.
1975 Artwork: Ann Newmarch Vietnam Madonna
1975 Hecate: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Women's Liberation established, edited by Carole Ferrier
Carole Ferrier
Carole Ferrier is a Feminist Australian Academic. She is Professor in English at the School of English, Media Studies and Art History at the University of Queensland. She has many published works about feminism, socialism, literature and culture...
(1975-present)
1975 Women's Studies Resource Centre
Women's Studies Resource Centre
Women's Studies Resource Centre is a feminist library in Adelaide, South Australia specialising in resources about women for the education sector: primary and secondary school students and teachers, tertiary students and staff at Technical and Further Education and University, and the general...
established, Adelaide, South Australia
1976 Launch of Melbourne-based art journal LIP A Journal of Women in the Visual Arts (1975–1983).
1976 Women's Art Movement established, Adelaide, South Australia
1978 Artwork: Ann Newmarch, Women hold up half the sky! 1978
1978 Exhibition: The Women's Show, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
1978-80 Performance: Lyndal Jones, The At Home Series, performances in the series held at La Mama Theatre, Melbourne, George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne, RMIT, Melbourne, 110 Chambers Street, New York
1980s
1980 Artwork: Davida AllenDavida Allen
Davida Frances Allen , is an Australian painter, film maker and writer.-Career:Allen studied under Betty Churcher at the Stuartholme School, Brisbane and later under Roy Churcher at Brisbane Central Technical College...
painted her sexual fantasy pictures of actor Sam Neill
Sam Neill
Nigel John Dermot "Sam" Neill, DCNZM, OBE is a New Zealand actor. He is well known for his starring role as paleontologist Dr Alan Grant in Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park III....
. While the paintings followed in the tradition of the Burt Reynolds
Burt Reynolds
Burton Leon "Burt" Reynolds, Jr. is an American actor. Some of his memorable roles include Bo 'Bandit' Darville in Smokey and the Bandit, Lewis Medlock in Deliverance, Bobby "Gator" McCluskey in White Lightning and sequel Gator, Paul Crewe and Coach Nate Scarborough in The Longest Yard and its...
nude centrefold in Cosmopolitan in 1972, in 1980s Australia the artist raised eyebrows for depicting a man as a sex object.
1980 Performance: Bonita Ely, Bread Line, Anzart, Christchurch, New Zealand
1980 Performance: Bonita Ely, Murray River Punch, George Paton and Ewing Gallery, Melbourne University. Women at Work, a festival of women's performance art.
1980 Performance: Jill Orr, Split- Fragile Relationships, George Paton and Ewing Gallery, Melbourne University. Women at Work, a festival of women's performance art.
1980 Women at Work : a week of women's performance, June 1980. George Paton and Ewing Gallery, Melbourne University. Artists included Jill Orr and Bonita Ely.
1982 Betty Churcher
Betty Churcher
Betty Ann Churcher, AO is best known as director of the National Gallery of Australia from 1990 to 1997. She was also a painter in her own right earlier in her life. She won a travelling scholarship to Europe and attended the London Royal College of Art...
appointed Dean of the School of Art and Design at Melbourne's Phillip Institute of Technology, she is the first female head of an Australian tertiary institution.
1982 Rosalie Gascoigne
Rosalie Gascoigne
Rosalie Gascoigne was a New Zealander-Australian sculptor. She showed at the Venice Biennale in 1982, becoming the first female artist to represent Australia there. In 1994 she was awarded the Order of Australia for her services to the arts.-Life:Gascoigne was born Rosalie Norah King Walker in...
is the first female artist to represent Australia at the Venice Biennale
1983 Janine Burke's Joy Hester published.
1984 Artwork: Julie Rrap
Julie Rrap
Julie Rrap is a contemporary Australian artist. Born in the regional town of Lismore, New South Wales, in 1950. Rrap is the sibling of well established performance artist and photographer Mike Parr. Her surname Rrap, is her actual surname Parr in reverse...
, Persona and Shadows (series), 1984, photographic collage
1985 Project: Coordinated by Carolyn Lewens and five photographers from Lewen's TAFE women's photography course, Prahran Neighbourhood House women's photography project, 1985, photographic panels documenting the activities of women at the Neighbourhood House under certain themes including child-care, after school activities, home environments and porttraits.
1987 Betty Churcher
Betty Churcher
Betty Ann Churcher, AO is best known as director of the National Gallery of Australia from 1990 to 1997. She was also a painter in her own right earlier in her life. She won a travelling scholarship to Europe and attended the London Royal College of Art...
appointed Director of the Art Gallery of Western Australia
Art Gallery of Western Australia
The Art Gallery of Western Australia is a public gallery that is part of the Perth Cultural Centre, in Perth, Western Australia. It is located near the Western Australian Museum and State Library of Western Australia...
, she is the first female director of a state art gallery.
1987 Exhibition: Feminist Narratives, George Paton Gallery, curated by Juliana Engberg. Artists: Pat Brassington, Debra Dawes, Leah MacKinnon, Andrea Paton, Ann Wulf.
1988 Exhibition: Judy Chicago
Judy Chicago
Judy Chicago is a feminist artist, author, and educator.Chicago has been creating artwork since the mid 1960s. Her earliest forays into the art world coincided with the rise of Minimalism, which she eventually abandoned in favor of art she believed to have greater content and relevance...
(American) The Dinner Party
The Dinner Party
The Dinner Party is an installation artwork by feminist artist Judy Chicago depicting place settings for 39 mythical and historical famous women. It was produced from 1974 to 1979 as a collaboration and was first exhibited in 1979. Subsequently, despite art world resistance, it toured to 16 venues...
(1979), Melbourne Exhibition Buildings.
1989 Artwork: Something More by Tracey Moffatt
Tracey Moffatt
Tracey Moffatt is an Australian artist who primarily uses photography and video.Born in Brisbane in 1960, she holds a degree in visual communications from the Queensland College of Art, graduating in 1982....
.
1990s
1990 Betty ChurcherBetty Churcher
Betty Ann Churcher, AO is best known as director of the National Gallery of Australia from 1990 to 1997. She was also a painter in her own right earlier in her life. She won a travelling scholarship to Europe and attended the London Royal College of Art...
appointed director of the National Gallery of Australia (1990–1997), she is the first female director of the gallery.
1991 Exhibition: Frames of Reference: Aspects of Feminism and Art, Artspace, Sydney, curated by Sally Couacaud.
Artists: Kathy Temin, Susan Norrie, Vivienne Binns, Rebecca Cummins, Anne MacDonald
1991 Manifesto: VNS Matrix
VNS Matrix
VNS Matrix was an artist collective founded in Adelaide, Australia, in 1991, by Josephine Starrs, Julianne Pierce, Francesca da Rimini and Virginia Barratt...
(Virginia Barratt, Francesca da Rimini, Juliane Pierce, Josephine Starrs), Cyberfeminist Manifesto for the 21st Century, Adelaide. http://www.sysx.org/gashgirl/VNS/TEXT/PINKMANI.HTM
The manifesto was distributed on street posters around Adelaide. VNS Matrix was an artist collective founded in Adelaide and active 1991-1997. VNS Matrix is pronounced 'Venus Matrix'.
1992 Exhibition: Feminisms: An Exhibition of 27 Women Artists, PICA
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts is a contemporary visual and performance arts venue located in Perth, Western Australia.-History:...
, Perth, curated by Nikki Miller.
1992 Caroline Chisholm
Caroline Chisholm
Caroline Chisholm was a progressive 19th-century English humanitarian known mostly for her involvement with female immigrant welfare in Australia. She is commemorated on 16 May in the Calendar of saints of the Church of England...
's likeness on the Australian 5 dollar note
Australian 5 dollar note
The Australian 5 dollar note was first issued in 1967, one year after the currency was changed from the Australian pound to the Australian dollar on 14 February 1966...
replaced by portrait of Queen Elizabeth II.
1994 Exhibition: The Women's Show, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
1995 Exhibition WWWO : Wollongong Worlds Women Online, first national Australian online women's group exhibition, featuring the first or early digital works from 30 women including Francis Dyson and Mez Breeze
Mez Breeze
Mez Breeze is an Australian-based artist who works with net.art. Born Mary-Anne Breeze she uses a number of avatar nicknames. She received degrees in both Applied Social Science [Psychology] at the Charles Sturt University in Bathurst, Australia in 1991 and Creative Arts at the Wollongong...
. Curators Melinda Rackham
Melinda Rackham
Melinda Rackham is an Australian Networked Media Artist, Writer and Curator, and founder and producer the influential -empyre- online media arts forum, which she initiated as part of her Doctoral thesis on Art and Identity in Virtual Reality Environments.Rackham studied sculpture and performance...
, Louise Manner, Ali Smith, Sandy Indlekofer-O’Sullivan.
1995 National Women's Art Exhibition, simultaneous exhibitions in over 147 galleries, museums and libraries.
1995 Exhibition: VNS Matrix: ALL NEW GEN, (VNS Matrix
VNS Matrix
VNS Matrix was an artist collective founded in Adelaide, Australia, in 1991, by Josephine Starrs, Julianne Pierce, Francesca da Rimini and Virginia Barratt...
: Virginia Barratt, Francesca da Rimini, Juliane Pierce, Josephine Starrs), ACCA, Melbourne. Part of the National Women's Art Exhibition.
1995 Exhibition: In the Company of Women: 100 years of Australian women's art from the Cruthers Collection, PICA
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts is a contemporary visual and performance arts venue located in Perth, Western Australia.-History:...
, Perth, curated by Sarah Miller. Part of the National Women's Art Exhibition.
1995 Exhibition: Bur-ran-gur ang (court out): Women and the law, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth, curated by Annette Pedersen. Part of the National Women's Art Exhibition.
1995 Exhibition: Out of the Void: Mad and Bad Women, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, touring Queensland. Part of the National Women's Art Exhibition.
1995 Exhibition: Girls Girls Girls, Annandale Galleries, Sydney, also Orange Regional Gallery. Women's show to mark the 20th Anniversary of the United Nations, Year of the Woman.
1995 Beyond the Picket Fence: Australian women's art in the National Library of Australia, National Library of Australia
National Library of Australia
The National Library of Australia is the largest reference library of Australia, responsible under the terms of the National Library Act for "maintaining and developing a national collection of library material, including a comprehensive collection of library material relating to Australia and the...
1996 Lynne Cooke
Lynne Cooke
Lynne Cooke is the curator at large for the Dia Art Foundation in New York, and chief curator at the Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain. Born in Geelong, Australia, Ms. Cooke received a B.A. from Melbourne University and an M.A. and Ph.D...
, first female artistic director of the Biennale of Sydney
Biennale of Sydney
The Biennale of Sydney is an international festival of contemporary art, held every two years in Sydney, Australia. It is the largest and best-attended contemporary visual arts event in the country...
1996 Manifesto: VNS Matrix
VNS Matrix
VNS Matrix was an artist collective founded in Adelaide, Australia, in 1991, by Josephine Starrs, Julianne Pierce, Francesca da Rimini and Virginia Barratt...
(Virginia Barratt, Francesca da Rimini, Juliane Pierce, Josephine Starrs) Bitch Mutant Manifesto, Adelaide.
1996 Exhibition: Women Hold Up Half the Sky: the Orientation of Art in the Post-War Pacific, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, curated by Roger Butler.
Artists: Micky Allan, Vivienne Binns, Kate Daw, eX de Medici, Diena Georgetti, Joan Grounds, Helga Groves, Indulkana Community, Emily Kame Kngwarreye
Emily Kngwarreye
Emily Kame Kngwarreye was an Australian Aboriginal artist from the Utopia community in the Northern Territory. She is one of the most prominent and successful artists in the history of contemporary Indigenous Australian art.-Life:Born in 1910, Kngwarreye did not take up painting seriously until...
, Narell Jubelin, Maningrida Arts, Banduk Marika, Ann Newmarch, Margaret Preston
Margaret Preston
Margaret Preston was a well-known Australian artist. She was highly influential during the 1920s to 1940s for her modernist works as a painter and printmaker and for introducing Aboriginal motifs into contemporary art.-Early life:...
, Thancoupie, Kelly Thompson, Utopia Batik, Toni Warburton, Judy Watson, Robin White
1996 Exhibition: Inside the Visible, Boston: ICA/ MIT: Kanaal Art Foundation, and Touring to Whitechapel, London, and PICA, Perth, Australia, curated by Catherine de Zegher (USA)
1997 Ann Newmarch first living female artist to be given a Retrospective exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia
Art Gallery of South Australia
The Art Gallery of South Australia , located on the cultural boulevard of North Terrace in Adelaide, is the premier visual arts museum in the Australian state of South Australia. It has a collection of over 35,000 works of art, making it, after the National Gallery of Victoria, the largest state...
The Personal is Political in 1997.
1997 Exhibition: Difficult Territory: a postfeminist project, Artspace, Sydney, curated by Kristen Elsby
1999 Guerrilla Girls
Guerrilla Girls
Guerrilla Girls are an anonymous group of feminists devoted to fighting against sexism within the visual fine art world internationally. Started in New York City in 1985 to protest gender and racial inequality in the art world, members are known for the gorilla masks they wear to keep their...
brought to Melbourne by RedPlanet for screenprinting workshops and lectures.
1999 Australian feminist art historians Joan Kerr & Jo Holder publish Past present : the national women's art anthology
2000s
2003 Australian feminist academic Germaine GreerGermaine Greer
Germaine Greer is an Australian writer, academic, journalist and scholar of early modern English literature, widely regarded as one of the most significant feminist voices of the later 20th century....
publishes The Beautiful Boy.
2004 Artwork: Mary Lou Pavlovic Liar! Public Art, Melbourne
2004 Death of Gabrielle Pizzi
Gabrielle Pizzi
Gabrielle Pizzi was an Australian art dealer who promoted Aboriginal art from the Western Desert from the early 1980s.-Early life:Born Gabrielle Wren, in Sydney she moved to Hobart when she was five years old...
, widely admired dealer in contemporary aboriginal art.
2004 Death of Joan Kerr (1938-2004), Australian art historian
2006 Exhibition: Feminist Actions, Spacement, Melbourne, curated by Veronica Tello.
Artists: Andrew Atchison, Pia de Bruyn, Sue Dodd, Sarah Lynch, Alex Martinis Roe, Ali Sanderson, Jessie Scott
2007 Exhibition: Bird Girls, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, VCA, curated by Kate Daw and Vikki McInnes.
Artists: Fiona Abicare, Jessie Angwin, Cate Consandine, Danielle Freakley, Kate Just, Simone Slee, Andrea Tu
2007 Forum: Feminism Never Happened, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne.
Panelists included: Julie Rrap, Alex Martinus Roe, Ann Marsh, Lily Hibberd, Felicity Coleman, Lyndall Walker, Emily Cormack
2007-8 Exhibition: Julie Rrap
Julie Rrap
Julie Rrap is a contemporary Australian artist. Born in the regional town of Lismore, New South Wales, in 1950. Rrap is the sibling of well established performance artist and photographer Mike Parr. Her surname Rrap, is her actual surname Parr in reverse...
: Body Double, MCA, Sydney, curated by Victoria Lynn http://www.mca.com.au/default.asp?page_id=10&content_id=2977
2008 Exhibition: Utopia: The Genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye developed by the National Museum of Australia and shown at the National Museum of Art in Osaka
Osaka
is a city in the Kansai region of Japan's main island of Honshu, a designated city under the Local Autonomy Law, the capital city of Osaka Prefecture and also the biggest part of Keihanshin area, which is represented by three major cities of Japan, Kyoto, Osaka and Kobe...
, Japan.
2008 Exhibition: Lauren Berkowitz/ Starlie Geikie, Neon Parc, Melbourne, curated by Rebecca Coates.
2008 Exhibition: A Time Like This, VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne.
Curated by Samantha Comte, Jirra Lulla Harvey, Kate Rhodes and Meredith Turnbull.
Artists: Louisa Bufardeci, Bindi Cole, Lorraine Connelly-Northey, Eliza Hutchison, Wietske Maas, Kate Smith, Salote Tawale, Annie Wu.
2008 Exhibition: Emily Floyd, Temple of the Female Eunuch, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne.
2008 Exhibition: Girls, Girls, Girls, Carlton Hotel, Melbourne, curated by Lyndal Walker and Nat Thomas.
2008 Australian feminist academic Elizabeth Grosz
Elizabeth Grosz
Elizabeth A. Grosz is an Australian feminist academic living and working in the USA. She is known for philosophical interpretations of the work of French philosophers Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, as well as her readings of the works of French feminists, Luce...
publishes Chaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth.
2008 Essay: On Rage by Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer is an Australian writer, academic, journalist and scholar of early modern English literature, widely regarded as one of the most significant feminist voices of the later 20th century....
, academic, social commentator and collector of Aboriginal art.
2008 Nicole Kidman names her child after arts patron Sunday Reed
Sunday Reed
Sunday Reed was notable for supporting and collecting Australian art with her husband John Reed.-Personal history:...
(1905 - 1981).
2008 CoUNTess blog launched. Blog compiles and reviews gender equality in the Australian art-world.
2010 Exhibition: Feminism Never Happened, IMA, Brisbane.
Artists: Del Kathryn Barton
Del Kathryn Barton
Del Kathryn Barton is an Australian artist, who won the 2008 Archibald Prize. She is represented by Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne, Australia and , Sydney, Australia....
, Pat Brassington, Kirsty Bruce, Jacqueline Fraser, Anastasia Klose
Anastasia Klose
Anastasia Klose is an Australian contemporary artist. Her work has received much attention in the art world due to the personal nature of her subject matter, often putting herself in humiliating situations. She is a graduate of both the Victorian College of the Arts and the University of Melbourne...
, Fiona Lowry, Fiona Pardington, Yvonne Todd, and Jemima Wyman http://www.ima.org.au/pages/exhibitions.php
2010 Exhibition: The View From Here: 19 Perspectives on Feminism, West Space, Melbourne. Curated by Clare Rae and Victoria Bennett.
Artists: Jessie Angwin, Kiera Brew Kurec, Brown Council, Madeleine Donovan, Mariam Haji, Hannah Raisin, Jessie Scott, Hayley Forward and Jessica Olivieri with the Parachutes for Ladies.
Writers: Emilie Zoey Baker, Laura Castagnini, Tamsin Green, Anna Greer, Rachel Fuller, Jo Latham, Dunja Rmandic, Daine Singer, Nella Themelios.
2010 Death of Eva Breuer, at the time one of the major dealers of secondary market Australian paintings. Breuer was one of the few dealers stocking works by notable, lesser known twentieth century female Australian artists: Bessie Davidson, Margaret Cilento, Janet Cumbrae Stewart, Margo Lewers, Jean Bellette, Dorrit Black, Lina Bryans, Nora Heysen, Mirka Mora, Florence Rodway, Jane Sutherland.
2010 Exhibition: The Feminist Salon Group, The Envelope Residency, The West Wing, West Space Project Site, Melbourne. Coordinated by Caroline Phillips and Sarah Lynch. A week long residency by a group of artists and writers engaged with reading and discussing feminist texts, in particular the work of Luce Irigaray. The residency included performance, film, visual art, sound, reading, discussion and a lecture by Dr. Louise Burchill. Participants included Sharon Billinge, Dr. Louise Burchill, Victoria Duckett, Catherine Evans, Janice Gobey, Kate Hodgetts, Kate Just, Anastasia Klose, Angie de Latour, Sarah Lynch, Valentina Palonen, Caroline Phillips, Hannah Raisin, Caroline Thew, Inez de Vega and Jane Whitfid.
Art historians in the field of Australian feminist art
Jude AdamsCaroline Ambrus
Barbara Bolt
Janine Burke
Anita Callaway
Lynne Cooke
Elizabeth Gertsakis
Janda Gooding
Germaine Greer
Elizabeth Grosz
Pat Hoffie
Jo Holder
Jeanette Hoorn
Caroline Jordan
Anne Kirker
Sandy Kirby (-2011)
Joan Kerr (1938-2004)
Kate MacNeill
Anne Marsh
Catriona Moore
Juliette Peers
Helen Topliss
Anna Voigt
Further reading
- Jenny Barber, Women's Movement South Australia, (Experimental Art Foundation: Adelaide, 1980) ISBN 0949836036
- Janine Burke, Field of Vision: A Decade of Change: Women's Art in the 1970s (Viking: Victoria, 1990)
- Barbara Caine, Australian Feminism: A Companion, (Oxford University Press: Melbourne, 1998) ISBN 0195538188.
- Jeanette Hoorn, Strange Women : Essays in Art and Gender (Melbourne University Press: Melbourne, 1994)
- Jane Kent(ed.), Setting the pace: the Women's Art Movement, 1980-1983, (Women's Art Movement: Adelaide, 1984)
- Joan Kerr & Jo Holder (eds) Past present : the national women's art anthology, (Craftsman House: Sydney, 1999)
- Sandy Kirby, Sight lines : women's art and feminist perspectives in Australia (Craftsman House, Sydney in association with Gordon and Breach, New York, 1992)
- Catriona Moore, Indecent Exposures: Twenty Years of Feminist Photography in Australia,1970-1990 (Allen & Unwin: Sydney, 1993)
- Anne Marsh Body and Self : Performance Art in Australia,1969-1992, (Oxford University Press: Australia, 1993)
- Anne Marsh Difference: A Radical Approach to Women and Art, (Women's Art Movement: Adelaide, 1985)
- Catriona Moore (ed.), Dissonance: Feminism and the arts 1970–90, (Allen & Unwin: Sydney, 1994)
- Helen Topliss, Modernism and feminism : Australian women artists, 1900-1940, (Craftsman House: Sydney, 1996)
- Anna Voigt (ed.), New Visions, New Perspectives: Voice of Contemporary Australian Women Artists
See also
- Visual arts of Australia
- Australian artist-run initiativesAustralian artist-run initiativesAustralian artist-run initiatives and galleries are found throughout the country. A few key spaces include Firstdraft, MOP , KINGS ARI, TCB , Clubs Project inc, West Space, Seventh Gallery, Platform artists group , Blindside, , Breadbox ARI and FELTspace...
- Indigenous Australian art
- List of Australian artists