Ina Gregory b. 18 October 1874

Also known as Georgina Gregory, Georgina Alice Gregory
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Ina Gregory and her sister Ada both studied at the National Gallery School and were also associated with the artists' colony at Charterisville. She was described by contemporaries as a 'colourist' in the manner of Streeton. Leter she became associated with the Theosophical society.
Tags: Impressionism, Charterisville, Heidelberg, Theosophical Society, Rosecrucian, Fairies

painter, was born in 'Rosedale’, Inkerman Street St Kilda on 18 October 1874 . With her elder sister Ada she studied drawing in her teens, and by the 1890s was studying under Emanuel Phillips Fox and Tudor St George Tucker at the National Gallery School and at the artists camps at 'Charterisville’.
She appears as one of the students in Fox’s painting _The Art Students _(1895). She is in school records as receiving prizes for life drawing. In 1898 she first exhibited at the Victorian Artists Society. Early in the 20th century she exhibited portraits, landscape and genre paintings with the Society. In 1905 she produced a book of illustrations with her friend and fellow student Violet Teague. Other friends of this time include Ethel Carrick Fox and Jane Price. In 1907 she contributed work to the First Australian Exhibition of Women’s Work.
She became a Rosecrucian and member of the Theosophical Society, and is understood to have believed in fairies.

Writers:
Staff Writer
Joanna Mendelssohn
Date written:
1995
Last updated:
2013