Suzanne Gether b.

Also known as Susan Gether
  • Artist ,
  • Artist (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer),
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  • Artist (Sculptor)
Suzanne Gether actively worked to raise the status of women's work in craft through her teaching and as a founding member of the NSW Society of Arts and Crafts. She actively encouraged young women to escape the dissatisfaction of 'merely paying calls and dressing well' and to take up creative pursuits.

Citations

  • Cochrane, Grace (1992), 'The Crafts Movement in Australia’, Kensington, New South Wales.

  • Graham, Anne (1978), 'Early Australian weaver: Suzanne Gether’, Australian Hand Weaver and Spinner, vol.31, winter.

  • de Torres, Alisa (1992), 'Woodcarving and pyrography’, Deborah Edwards (ed.), Australian Decorative Arts, Sydney, New South Wales.

  • (1908), 'Our Australian craftswomen—No.2: Miss Suzanne Gether’, Art and Architecture, March-April.

  • (1907), Sydney Mail, 07-31.

  • 'Joan Kerr Archive’, National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT.

See also

  • '(Heritage biography) ADD section 5: plate 195'.
  • 'Australian (or Australasian) Star, 8 April 1908'.

Initial data sources

  • Heritage: The National Women's Art Book