Mary Edwards b. 1894

Also known as Mary Edwell-Burke, Mary Edwell Burke, Maisie Edwards, Mary E. Burke
  • Artist
A painter and carver, Edwards has been remembered largely for her adversarial role in the Dobell trial of 1944. A flamboyant figure she lived later in Fiji and denied her earlier Australian 'Mary Edwards' work.
exhibited at
The Work of Art: Australian women writers and artists
Date
14 August 1995 - 11 February 1996
Place
State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
Review
Date
8 March 1995 - 8 June 1995
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description

Speaking of Women, four guest lectures; by Nancy Underhill, Ann Thomson, Margo Neale, Joan Kerr; held over successive Fridays, 10-31 March 1995, by the Art Gallery Society.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
Colonial Pastime to Contemporary Profession: 150 years of Australian Women's Art
Date
8 March 1995 - July 1995
Place
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Tas.
Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
Trust the Women,
Date
24 February 1995 - 2 April 1995
Place
S. H. Ervin Gallery, National Trust of Australia (NSW), Sydney, NSW
Description

Touring exhibition (selected works from Sydney show). S. H. Ervin show Opened by Annita Keating, 23 February 1995. Broken Hill City Art Gallery show opened by Councillor Fran McKinnon, 29 June 1995.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
Australian High Commission
Date
March 1987
Place
Suva and Nadi, Fiji
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Grace Cossington Smith and other women artists from the collection
Date
21 October 1982 - 14 November 1982
Place
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, NSW
Type
Exhibition
Tags
Women and the Arts Festival
exhibited at
Project 21: Women's Images of Women
Date
15 October 1977 - 13 November 1977
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Exhibition of Australian women painters
Date
4 August 1946 - 18 August 1946
Place
National Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, NSW
Description

Exhibition of works by women painters and portraits of distinguished Australian women by male artists. Held in conjunction with the second conference of the Australian Women’s Charter.

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Exhibition of paintings by women artists
Date
13 October 1943 - 25 October 1943
Place
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
[solo exhibition]
Date
1936
Place
Hotel Australia, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
[solo exhibition]
Date
1935
Place
Lodestar Galleries, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
[exhibition with Margaret Preston]
Date
1935
Place
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Date
1935 - 1945
Place
Australian Watercolour Institute, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Royal Art Society of NSW Annual exhibition
Date
5 August 1933 - c.August 1933
Place
Education Department's Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Date
1925
Place
Salon, Paris, France
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Date
1920
Place
Royal Art Society of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition