Ira Eleanor Elizabeth Forbes-Smith b. 2 February 1920

Also known as Mrs None Kentish
  • Artist ,
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Designer (Industrial / Product Designer),
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Designer of textiles, painter, china painter, leatherworker and art teacher. Forbes-Smith showed regularly with the Western Australian Women Painters and Applied Arts Society. In the 1960s and the 1970s she took trips to South Africa, New Zealand and the various states of Australia exhibiting her work or teaching painting on cruise ships.
Tags: Leatherwork
exhibited at
Exhibition of Perth Society of Artists
Date
1948
Place
Perth, WA
Type
Exhibition
Note
also in 1949, 1950, 1952 and 1967
exhibited at
[exhibition]
Date
1948
Place
Frank Higgins Gallery
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Exhibition of Amy Peirl, Ethel Sanders and Ira Forbes-Smith
Date
1947
Place
Newspaper House Gallery, Perth, WA
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Exhibition of Western Australian Women's Society of Fine Arts and Crafts
Date
1945
Place
Perth, WA
Type
Exhibition
Note
also from 1946 to 1953
exhibited at
[exhibition]
Date
1945
Place
Studio Club, Bunbury, WA
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Aboriginal Art and Its Application
Date
1941
Place
David Jones, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Exhibition of Western Australian Women Painters and Applied Arts Society
Date
1936
Place
Newspaper House Gallery, Perth, WA
Type
Exhibition
Note
also from 1937 to 1944