Mirka Madeleine Mora b. 18 March 1928

Also known as Mirka Mora, Mirka Madeleine Zelik
  • Artist (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer),
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Ceramist)
Mirka Mora’s joyeous experimental art gave a bohemian flavour to Melbourne life, both with her former husband, the resistance fighter and restaurateur Georges, and then with her wide circle of friends and extended family.
Tags: bohemian, Feminist
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References [<ExternalResource: Beier, Uli (1980), 'Mirka', Melbourne, Vic : Macmillan.>, <ExternalResource: Blackman, Barbara, 'The good ship Mora: Melbourne in the 1950s', Meanjin 2.1996 (winter), pp.293-305.>, <ExternalResource: de Berg, Hazel (1965), '[Oral history tape]', Canberra, ACT : National Library of Australia.>, <ExternalResource: Harris, Max; & Dutton, Geoffrey (1968), 'The Vital Decade : ten years of Australian art and letters', Melbourne, Vic : Sun.>, <ExternalResource: Lynn, Elwyn (1963), 'Contemporary Drawing', Melbourne, Vic : Longmans.>, <ExternalResource: McCulloch, Alan (1984), 'Encyclopedia of Australian Art', Melbourne, Vic : Hutchinson of Australia (2nd edition).>, <ExternalResource: McGuire, Margaret (1995), 'Wanting Eyes', Prahran, Vic : Champion, in All things opposite : essays on Australian Art, pp 83-95.>, <ExternalResource: Mora, Mirka (2000), 'Wicked but Virtuous : My Life (autobiography)', Ringwood, Vic : Viking.>, <ExternalResource: Reed, John (1963), 'New Painting 1952-62', Melbourne, Vic : Longmans.>, <ExternalResource: Mirka Mora, Agony Aunts ABC TV>, <ExternalResource: Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery History Archive>, <ExternalResource: The Sydney Morning Herald, 27 August 2018>, <ExternalResource: Sabine Cotte “Diaries, petticoats and copious research”>, <ExternalResource: Sabine Cotte “Au Revoir Mirka Mora”>, <ExternalResource: Debbie Cutherson. Mira Mora obituary, Sydney Morning Herald, 28 August 2018, p.12 >] [<ExternalResource: Beier, Uli (1980), 'Mirka', Melbourne, Vic : Macmillan.>, <ExternalResource: Blackman, Barbara, 'The good ship Mora: Melbourne in the 1950s', Meanjin 2.1996 (winter), pp.293-305.>, <ExternalResource: de Berg, Hazel (1965), '[Oral history tape]', Canberra, ACT : National Library of Australia.>, <ExternalResource: Harris, Max; & Dutton, Geoffrey (1968), 'The Vital Decade : ten years of Australian art and letters', Melbourne, Vic : Sun.>, <ExternalResource: Lynn, Elwyn (1963), 'Contemporary Drawing', Melbourne, Vic : Longmans.>, <ExternalResource: McCulloch, Alan (1984), 'Encyclopedia of Australian Art', Melbourne, Vic : Hutchinson of Australia (2nd edition).>, <ExternalResource: McGuire, Margaret (1995), 'Wanting Eyes', Prahran, Vic : Champion, in All things opposite : essays on Australian Art, pp 83-95.>, <ExternalResource: Mora, Mirka (2000), 'Wicked but Virtuous : My Life (autobiography)', Ringwood, Vic : Viking.>, <ExternalResource: Reed, John (1963), 'New Painting 1952-62', Melbourne, Vic : Longmans.>, <ExternalResource: Mirka Mora, Agony Aunts ABC TV>, <ExternalResource: Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery History Archive>, <ExternalResource: The Sydney Morning Herald, 27 August 2018>, <ExternalResource: Sabine Cotte “Diaries, petticoats and copious research”>, <ExternalResource: Sabine Cotte “Au Revoir Mirka Mora”>]