Joan Kingsley-Strack b. 1892

Also known as Jeanne G. L. Commons
  • Artist (Industrial / Product Designer),
  • Artist (Painter)
Painter and decorative artist. Kingsley-Strack supported herself through her art, which included china-painting, after her divorce in the early 1940s. Her portraits of the Aboriginal stars of the film 'Jedda', painting on porcelain plaques, were entered in the 1954 Archibald Prize.
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Painter and decorative artist, was the daughter of a Sydney bohemian, Donald Commons, and grandmother of Victoria Haskins. She supported herself through her art after her divorce in the early 1940s, including china-painting with portraits of the Aboriginal stars of the film Jedda . She entered a pair of porcelain plaques containing portraits of the baby Jedda (Margaret Dingle) and the villain Marbuk (Bob Tudawali Melville Island) for the 1954 Archibald Prize.

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1999
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2011

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