Margaret Dodd b. 1941

  • Artist (Ceramist),
  • Artist (Sculptor),
  • Artist (Theatre / Film Designer),
  • Artist (Video Artist),
  • Artist
As a student Margaret Dodd exhibited in the first Funk Ceramic exhibition in San Francisco in 1968. After returning to Australia she became a major figure in the development of experimental feminist art in Adelaide. Her art shows an awareness of the place of the car as a symbol for both liberation and oppression.
Tags: South Australia, Ocker Funk, Experimental Art Foundation, Filmmaker, Feminist, Holden
exhibited at
Brown -1970's ceramics from the Shepparton Art Gallery collection
Date
18 April 1991 - 5 December 1991
Place
Shepparton Art Gallery, Shepparton, VIC
Description

Exhibitors
Harold Hughan – Noel Flood – Harry Memmott
Victor Greenaway – Gwyn Hanssen Pigott
Doug Alexander – Les Blakebrough
David Bradshaw – Joan Campbell
Aleks Danko – Phyl Dunn
Margaret Dodd – Ivan Englund
Marea Gazzard – John Gilbert
Joan Grounds – Sylvia Halpern
Lorraine Jenyns – John Johnson
Col Levy – Judy Lorraine
Janet Mansfield – Anne Mercer
Milton Moon – Tim Moorhead
Reg Preston – Peter Rushforth
Shigeo Shiga – Mitsuo Shoji – Hiroe Swen
Derek Smith – Ian Sprague
Bernard Sahm – Stefan Szonyi
Peter Travis – Alan Watt

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Contemporary Ceramics, Ceramic Sculpture, Shepparton Art Museum
Note
aka Shepparton Art Museum
exhibited at
Clay Dynasty
Date
11 October 2021 - 29 January 2022
Place
Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW
Description

An exhibition of three generations of studio ceramics in Australia, from the 1960s when potters were influenced by Bernard Leach’s understanding of Japanese aesthetics, to a more liberated creative approach.
It was drawn in its entirety from the collection of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences.

Tags
ceramcis, studio potters
Website
https://www.maas.museum/event/clay-dynasty/
exhibited at
Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to now Part 1
Date
14 November 2020 - 4 July 2021
Place
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
Description

Know My Name is an exhibition in two parts at the National Gallery of Australia. It is the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of work by women, presented in a thematic rather than chronological form. It reveals relationships between the present and the past, relationships between artists, and common concerns.

Tags
Women artists, Feminism, Modernism, Indigenous, Painting, Video art, Multimedia, Photo-based art-work, Sculpture, Embroidery
Website
https://knowmyname.nga.gov.au/events/australian-women-artists-1900-now/
exhibited at
Women at Watters
Date
22 February 1995 - 11 March 1995
Place
Watters Gallery, East Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition, Watters Gallery
exhibited at
Powell St Gallery. 10 x 10 = 100
Date
4 December 1972 - 20 December 1972
Place
Powell Street, Gallery, South Yarra, VIC
Description

10 × 10 = 100 An Exhibition of Contemporary Ceramics. Powell Street Gallery. South Yarra, Vic. 1972
Exhibitors:
Noel Flood, Hedley Potts,
Tim Moorhead, Joan Grounds,
Ken Leveson, Stephen Skillitzi,
Margaret Dodd, Susan Moorhead,
Victor Greenaway, Ian Sprague.

Review:-
> The Sun, Wed 6 Dec 1972. p42. By Jeffrey Makin
“Sculpture in the Shadows”
> Pottery in Australia Vol.11, No.1. 1972

Tags
Hedley Potts, "Tim Moorhead, Victor Greenaway, Joan Grounds, Ken Leveson, Ian Sprague, Margaret Dodd, Stephen Skillitzi, Contemporary Ceramics, Noel Flood, Susan Moorhead
Note
Group Exhibition - Ceramics
exhibited at
John Kaldor Art Projects 2, Szeemann: I want to leave a nice, well done child here (20 Australian Artists)
Date
29 April 1971 - 13 May 1971
Place
Bonython Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Description

ALSO: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, with additional installation by Mike Brown

Type
Exhibition