Women's Industrial Arts Society (WIAS),

Also known as Industrial Arts Society
  • Designer
Women’s Industrial Arts Society (WIAS), one of the earliest groups organised around the concept of industrial and graphic design. The WIAS was formed in 1935 and the Society’s first exhibition was held in May of the same year. Work from such artists, designers and interior designers as Hera Roberts, Phyllis Shillito (an early SIDA member), Jean Bellette, Thea Proctor, Margaret Preston and others was shown.

Citations

  • “Art in the Home.” Review of Women’s Industrial Arts Society exhibition at unidentified gallery, Sydney Morning Herald, 7 May 1936, p.22.

  • “Women’s Industrial Arts.” Review of Women’s Industrial Arts Society, Education Dept Galleries, Loftus St, Sydney. Daily Telegraph, 4 May 1935, p.14.