Margaret Dredge b. 1928

Also known as Margaret Vickery
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Painter)
Born in 1928, Margaret Dredge did not have the opportunity to study art until the mid 1950s when she started studying painting with Inez Hutchinson. Early paintings were figurative and still life works, leading into abstraction, she quickly became involved in the Melbourne art scene. Dredge died in 2001.

Citations

  • Germaine, Max (1990), 'Artists and Galleries of Australia’, Craftsman House, 3rd edition.

  • Anderson, Peter, 'Black is the Colour’, Australian Art Review, Australia, 2010-08, issue 24.

  • McCulloch, Alan and McCulloch, Susan (1994), 'Encyclopedia of Australian Art’, Allen and Unwin, 3rd ed + 1st ed reprints.

  • Beck, Richard, and Missingham, Hal (April 1979), 'Some Australian Artists, photographic exhibition’.

  • Smith, Bernard (July 1965), 'Review of Argus Gallery exhibition’, The Age, Melbourne, VIC, .

  • Smith, Bernard (March 1965), 'Gallery Survey for Moomba Week’, The Age, Melbourne, VIC, .

  • Dingle, Max (2010), 'Black is the Colour…’, Shoalhaven City Arts Centre, Nowra, NSW, Exh. Cat.

  • Dingle, Max (2009), 'Personal Journeys: 40 years of Australian Women’s Abstract Art’, Shoalhaven City Arts Centre, Nowra, NSW, Exh. Cat.

  • 'Family archive: (Dredge, unpublished notes 1971?)’.

  • 'M G Dingle & G B Hughes Collection archive’.

  • Field, Caroline, Curator and Heathcote, Christopher, Author catalogue essay. (2003), 'Margaret Dredge: An Abstract’, ICON Museum of Art, Deacon University, Melbourne, VIC.

  • Wilson-Anastasios, Meaghan (2004), 'Driven to Abstraction: Margaret Dredge and the making and marketing of Post-painterly Abstraction’, Thesis – University of Melbourne, VIC.

  • Shore, Arnold (1961), 'A Young Painters Exhibition’, The Age, Melbourne, VIC.

  • (20 September 1961), 'Surrounded by her Pictures’, Moorabbin News, Moorabbin, VIC.

  • McCulloch, Alan (3 March 1965), 'Amateurish Approach’, The Herald, Melbourne, VIC.

  • (8 June 1968), 'Contemporary Art & Criticism, letter to the Editor’, The Age, Melbourne, VIC.

  • Warren, Alan (10 May 1967), 'Stimulating week in the Art World’, The Sun, Melbourne, VIC.

  • McCulloch, Alan (27 September 1967), 'Landscape Revolution’, The Herald, Melbourne, Vic.

  • McCaughey, Patrick (27 September 1967), 'A Painter Apart’, The Age, Melbourne, VIC.

  • Blake, Harry (5 October 1967), 'Margaret Dredge Exhibition an Eye-catcher’, The Sun, Melbourne, VIC.

  • Galbally, Ann (6 May 1970), 'Journey to Take’, The Age, Melbourne, VIC.

  • McCulloch, Alan (10 June 1976), 'Art’, The Herald, Melbourne, VIC.

  • Sturgeon, Graeme (3 April 1979), 'Women on Show’, The Australian, Melbourne, VIC.

  • Fraser, John (4 April 1979), 'Power and Beauty’, The Sun, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Millar, Ronald (8 April 1982), 'Understanding Colour’, The Herald, Melbourne, VIC.

  • McCulloch, Alan, McCulloch, Susan and McCulloch Childs, Emily (2006), 'McCulloch’s Encyclopedia of Australian Art’, Miegunyah Press.

  • Germain, Max (1991), 'Dictionary of Women Artists of Australia’, Craftsman House.

  • Sweet, Johnathon (1989), 'Pinacotheca 1967 – 1973’, Prendergast Publishers.

  • Beck, Chris (23 July 2005), 'Dredge Painted the blues’, The Age, Melbourne, VIC.

  • Backhouse, Meaghan (23 October 2003), 'Remembering Margaret Dredge’, The Age, Melbourne, VIC.

  • Dingle, Max & Dredge, Rhonda “Margaret Dredge Retrospective 1960 to 2001 catalogue 2012 ISBN 978-0-646-57900-9

See also