Vera Blackburn b. 27 May 1911

Also known as Vera Bickerton Blackburn
  • Artist (Printmaker)
Printmaker Vera Blackburn was the daughter of artistically minded parents who encouraged her practice through lessons with Thea Proctor. World War Two, marriage and family life arrested her career until the 1980s, when she again took up printmaking.
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
Overlooked but not forgotten: Adelaide Perry and her students
Date
8 March 1995 - 8 April 1995
Place
Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Acton, ACT
Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
Sydney by Design: Wood and linoblock prints by Sydney women artists between the Wars
Date
8 March 1995 - 25 April 1995
Place
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT (and touring)
Description

touring exhibition (a.k.a. Women Printmakers of the 1920s and 1930s)

Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
Women hold up half the sky
Date
March 1995 - April 1995
Place
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
Description

Opened by the Hon. Dr Carmen Lawrence. Heritage book launched at the same time. The touring exhibition, Sydney by Design, formed one section of this exhibition.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
Women Artists in the University of Sydney Collection
Date
March 1995 - 1995
Place
Fisher Library, University of Sydney, NSW
Description

Opened by Virginia Spate

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
Project 39: Women's imprint
Date
1 October 1982 - 31 October 1982
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales
Type
Exhibition
Tags
Women and the Arts Festival
exhibited at
Contemporary Exhibition
Date
1936
Place
Blaxland Galleries, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition