Margaret Preston b. 29 April 1875

Also known as Margaret Rose McPherson, Rose McPherson, Margaret Rose Macpherson, Margaret Rose Preston, Margaret Macpherson
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Ceramist)
Margaret Preston specialised in still life subjects, seeking to reinvent the genre, with inspiration from Aboriginal art and Australian native flowers, but she also made landscapes, and painted an introspective self-portrait. Her hand-coloured woodcuts and linocuts are a modernist interpretation of what is often thought of as traditional women's subject matter.
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New South Wales Society of Artists
Place
Sydney, NSW
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Exhibition
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New English Art Club
Place
London, England, UK
Description
Type
Exhibition
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Royal Academy
Place
Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, England, UK
Description
Type
Exhibition
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Society of Women Artists
Place
London, England, UK
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
New Salon
Place
Paris, France
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Look, Look Again
Date
20 October 2011 - 15 December 2012
Place
Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA
Description

Exhibition showcasing highlights from the Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art (CCWA), which was gifted to the University of Western Australia in 2007. A companion publication titled 'Into the Light’ that documented the history and key works of the CCWA was released to coincide with the exhibition, which also featured a symposium – 'Are we there yet?’ – discussing women’s participation in art and art history and the future of feminism in the arts.

Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.lwgallery.uwa.edu.au/exhibitions/past/look-look-again
exhibited at
Look, Look Again
Date
20 October 2011 - 15 December 2012
Place
Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA
Description

Exhibition showcasing highlights from the Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art (CCWA), which was gifted to the University of Western Australia in 2007. A companion publication titled 'Into the Light’ that documented the history and key works of the CCWA was released to coincide with the exhibition, which also featured a symposium – 'Are we there yet?’ – discussing women’s participation in art and art history and the future of feminism in the arts.

Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.lwgallery.uwa.edu.au/exhibitions/past/look-look-again
exhibited at
Ocean to Outback: Australian landscape painting 1850-1950
Date
2007 - 2009
Place
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
Description

Touring exhibition curated by National Gallery Director, Ron Radford.

Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.nga.gov.au/AboutUs/press/OceanToOutback.cfm
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
Women on Paper: from the collections: late nineteenth century to the present
Date
5 April 1995 - 23 April 1995
Place
Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, Vic.
Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
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A l'hombre des jeunes filles et des fleurs: In the shadow of young girls and flowers
Date
10 March 1995 - 28 May 1995
Place
Benalla Art Gallery, Benalla , Vic.
Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
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Eveolution: An exhibition of women's art from the Newcastle Region Art Gallery collection
Date
9 March 1995 - June 1995
Place
Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle, NSW
Description

Opened by Deborah Mills and the Lord Mayor of Newcastle, 8 March 1995.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
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With a Brush in Her Hand: Works from the Howard Hinton, Coventry and NERAM collections
Date
9 March 1995 - April 1995
Place
New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, NSW
Description

Opened 8 March 1995

Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
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A Century of Australian Women's Art (1880s-1990s)
Date
8 March 1995
Place
Angeloro Fine Art Galleries, Artarmon, 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
Australian Women Artists of the Twentieth Century from the collection of Elinor and Fred Wrobel
Date
8 March 1995 - 1995
Place
Woolloomooloo Gallery, Woolloomooloo, Sydney, NSW
Description

touring exhibition. Lewers Bequest and Penrith Regional Art Gallery show launched by Joan Kerr, 11 June 1995.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
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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
The Women's View: Australian women artists in the Bendigo Art Gallery, 1888-1995
Date
8 March 1995 - 2 April 1995
Place
Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, Vic.
Description

Opening, including Joe Dolce and Linn van Kek, performance 'Difficult Women’, 8 March 1995

Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
Australian Women Printmakers 1910-1940
Date
5 March 1995 - 30 April 1995
Place
Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum, Castlemaine, VIC
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
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
In the Company of Women: 100 years of Australian women's art from the Cruthers collection
Date
16 February 1995 - 13 March 1995
Place
PICA (Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts), WA
Description

Opened by Dr Liz Constable MLA, Member for Floreat, 15 February 1995

Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
South Australian Women Artists: paintings from the 1890s to the 1940s
Date
15 April 1994 - 17 July 1994
Place
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
Description

Presented for the South Australian Centenary of Women’s Suffrage in 1994, included in PastPresent as a precursor to the National Women’s Art Exhibition of 1995.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
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The Australian Landscape
Date
1972 - 1973
Place
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
Description

“The Australian Landscape” was a national touring exhibition organised by the Australian Gallery Directors’ Council in 1972. The organising gallery was the Art Gallery of South Australia, and the curators were Daniel Thomas (Art Gallery of New South Wales) Ian North (Art Gallery of South Australia) and Frances McCarthy [later Lindsay] (National Gallery of Victoria). Generous funding from the Peter Stuyvesant foundation enabled the curators to travel the country together in order to make considered judgements.
The exhibition opened at the Art Gallery of South Australia on 3 March 1972, and toured to the Western Australian Art Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Australian National Gallery (temporary premises), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Newcastle City Art Gallery, and the Queensland Art Gallery.
The catalogue introduction claims that the exhibition comprised of 'fifty-five of the best Australian landscapes ever executed’. It was characterised by a breadth of vision, with works from every state – including regional galleries and private collections. It is distinguished by having a greater emphasis on colonial works than previous exhibitions, and elevating the reputation of Eugene Von Guerard and John Glover.
There were only two works by women – Grace Cossington Smith and Margaret Preston– and none by any Aboriginal artist.

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