Amy Elizabeth Heap b. 6 February 1874

Also known as Mrs J.H Amy Farrell, Amy Heap
  • Artist (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer),
  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Photographer),
  • Artist ,
  • Artist (Painter)
Painter, illustrator, craftworker, photographer and commercial artist. During WWI and into the mid 1930's, Heap worked as a photographer and illustrator for Western Australian Newspapers.

Citations

  • Brierley, Kathleen, 'Heap file Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth’, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Letter from Kathleen Brierley to Mrs J. Miller 28 November 1975.

  • (1993), 'Jarrah Leaves’, Perth, WA [Glascock, T., (ed.)].

  • Gooding, Janda (1987), 'Western Australian Art and Artists 1900-1950’, Perth, WA.

  • (1916), 'The Westralia Gift Book’, Perth, WA [Murdoch, Walter (ed.)].

  • Rossi, Daisy (1937), 'Painters of Perth: Thirty years in retrospect’, West Australian, 10-23.

  • Stannage, C.T. (1990), 'Embellishing the Landscape: The Images of Amy Heap and Fred Flood 1920-1940’, Fremantle, WA.

  • (1912), West Australian, 11-20.

  • (1918), Western Mail (1918/1940).

  • '[Western Australian Society of Artists’ file]’, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA.

  • (1939), West Australian, 07-17.

  • (1939), West Australian, 07-18.

  • (1944), West Australian, 11-11.

See also

  • 'Heritage: Chapter 3, plate 123'.
  • 'An unsigned colour photolithographic poster, Spring in Western Australia (NLA) 1950s, for the WA Tourist Development Authority is included in Michelle Hetherington, Follow the Sun: Australian Travel Posters 1930s-1950s, NLA 1999'.

Initial data sources

  • Heritage: The National Women's Art Book