Lesley Dumbrell b. 1941

  • Artist (Painter)
Throughout her sustained career Lesley Dumbrell’s painting has been characterised by precise, geometric abstraction. In 1974, at a time when women artists found it difficult to be taken seriously, she was a participant in the ground breaking exhibiiton, A Room of One’s Own, and also founded the Women’s Arr Register.
Tags: Abstract art, Feminism, geometric abstraction, Colour field painting
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exhibited at
Shades of Light: Lesley Dumbrell
Date
11 November 1999 - 16 January 2000
Place
Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic.
Description

Scholarly survey exhibition of Dumbrell’s oeuvre

Tags
Abstract art, Light, geometric abstraction, Colour
exhibited at
Colour and transparency: watercolours by Lesley Dumbrell, Robert Jacks and Victor Majzner
Date
1986
Place
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA
Description

Dumbrell, Jacks and Majzner have produced 20 works each in this medium for this exhibition.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
AGWA annual report

Exhibition Catalogue:
Zdanowicz, Irena, McCaughey, Patrick, Colour and transparency : the watercolours of Lesley Dumbrell, Robert Jacks, Victor Majzner. Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 1986.
ISBN 0724101144

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Group, Painting, Watercolour
exhibited at
Lesley Dumbrell: paintings and studies 1967-1977
Date
1977
Place
Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, VIC
Description

Accompanied by a major publication.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
http://www.monash.edu.au/muma/publications/; MUMA archive printout

Exhibition Catalogue:
Lesley Dumbrell: paintings and studies 1967-1977, Melbourne: Monash University Museum of Art, 1977

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Solo Survey, Painting
exhibited at
A Room of Ones Own
Date
8 April 1974 - 3 May 1974
Place
Ewing and George Paton Gallery, Melbourne University, Melbourne, VIC
Description

A Room of One’s Own was a seminal feminist. exhibition of work by three women artists: Ann Newmarch, Julie Irving and Lesley Dumbrell. It was facilitated by Kiffy Carter and Meredith Rogers.

Tags
Feminism and Art, contemporary art, activism
Website
https://www.printsandprintmaking.gov.au/exhibitions/9796/

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