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Marie Gardiner, sculptor, sketcher and painter, was born in 1918, daughter of William Herbert Gardiner and Edna Marie (née Grant).
During the early 1940s she studied for a diploma at East Sydney Technical College. Gardiner exhibited in Sydney with the Under 30 Group in the 1940s and the Contemporary Group in the 1950s.
In 1945 Gardiner, Francis Lymburner and Cedric Flower attended a performance of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest at Bryant’s Playhouse, in order to sketch the production.
Following a visit to Oenpelli, Arnhem Land, and Melville Island in 1957, Marie Gardiner moved from Sydney to Tilba Tilba on the New South Wales south coast.
After Gardiner’s death in 1966, her mother donated two of her drawings, a self portrait and one of the Bryant’s Playhouse sketches, to the Art Gallery of New South Wales and sculptor Robert Klippel donated a number of his own abstract sketches and a pair of earrings he had created for Gardiner, to the same Gallery, in her memory.

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2014

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2014