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Women’S Aspirations Revealed In PrintsLatrobe Regional Gallery will host a critique of the Women Printmakers 1900-1940 exhibition, currently on display at the Gallery, on Tuesday 1 June. By news@gippsland - 28th May 2004 - Back to News Latrobe Regional Gallery will host a critique of the Women Printmakers 1900-1940 exhibition, currently on display at the Gallery, on Tuesday 1 June. Women Printmakers 1900-1940 is an exhibition of prints created by some of Australia’s leading female artists from the beginning of the twentieth century and is on loan from the Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum collection.
Latrobe Regional Gallery Director, Louise Tegart, said that during the early twentieth century there was an upsurge in feminism that provided a favourable social climate for women artists, however this period was short-lived.
"The popularity of prints created by female artists collapsed after the Second World War because of post war conditions, however Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum continued to build a collection of prints that were created and designed by women at the beginning of last century," Ms Tegart explained.
"Many of the artists featured in this exhibition spent time overseas and brought back techniques and ideas that they applied to their work. They experimented with woodcuts, linocuts, etching and lithograph and explored the concepts of still life, landscape, animals, buildings and flowers. Printmaking had developed considerable popularity in Europe long before it became successful in Australia, however it had a significant following in this country by the time the women featured in this exhibition were creating their own prints."
Ms Tegart said the promotional work and hard effort of some Australian galleries has led to the recent interest in women printmakers. "Galleries such as Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum have consistently made an effort to promote women printmakers, and now more and more galleries have become interested in this style of art work. In fact, some of the artists featured in Women Printmakers 1900-1940 have recently had their work included in major state gallery exhibitions," Ms Tegart concluded.
Latrobe Regional Gallery will host a discussion on Women Printmakers 1900-1940 on Tuesday 1 June at 3pm. The discussion will be lead by the National Gallery of Victoria’s Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings, Kirrily Hammond. Tickets cost $5 adult, $3 students and the discussion is free of charge to members of the Gallery Society.
The Latrobe Regional Gallery is located at 138 Commercial Road, Morwell, and is open Tuesday to Friday 10am-5pm, and on weekends 11am–4pm. The gallery is closed Mondays and Public Holidays. For further information about exhibitions at the gallery, please telephone 5128
Source: www.gippsland.com Published by: news@gippsland.com
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