WAAM! IT’S WOMEN’S ABSTRACT ART MAN!

1 DECEMBER 2016 to 28 FEBRUARY 2017
Jervis Bay Maritime Museum & Gallery

If there was ever any cred in the cliché of women only painting delicate watercolours and polite still life or landscapes,  75 works, 34 women and 53 years of muscular abstraction puts the biff to that image.
It’s a knock out.
GRACE BURZESE, VIRGINIA COVENTRY, PAMELA COWPER, ELISABETH CUMMINGS, LIZ CUMING, RACHAEL DOUGLAS, HANNA DUPREE, MARGARET DREDGE, VIVIENNE FERGUSON, JANE GILLINGS, JENNY HERBERT SMITH, ANNA HEROLD POLA, MELANIE HOWARD, CAROLINE KARLSSON, NICOLE KELLY, JAN KING, TARA KLEIN, ANNASOPHIA LARSEN, SANDRA LEVESON, JOANNE MAKAS, MAGGIE MCCORMICK, BRONWYN OLIVER, RAQUEL ORMELLA, JUDY OVERHEU, MIRANDA PARKES, ROBYN QUINN, PEGGY RANDALL, VICKI REYNOLDS, KATHERINE ROOKE, SUE SMALKOWSKI, CARLY SNOSWELL, AIDA TOMESCU, ANABEL WALTERS, SIENA WHITE.
(Included the work on paper “Black to White”” 1993)