painter, has been working in Adelaide since the 1940s. Her detailed, oil on hardboard painting of rats in laboratory capsules with rubber tubing attached, The Means 1982, and her paintings with Christian themes were included in Paula Furby’s In Context: Australian Women Modernists (FUAM, 2001). When Bruce James discussed the exhibition on Radio National, 20 February 2001 – transcript WAR Bulletin 32 (Spring 2001), 18 – he singled out Robertson and Erica McGilchrist from the 6 post-war Australian women artists included.
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- Date written:
- 1999
- Last updated:
- 2011
