Mirka Madeleine Mora b. 1928

Also known as Mirka Mora
  • Artist (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer),
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Exuberant continental immigrant artist - with her husband Georges, brought life and energy to the Melbourne art and restaurant scene of the 1950's.
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Citations

  • Beier, Uli (1980), 'Mirka’, Melbourne, Vic : Macmillan.

  • Blackman, Barbara, 'The good ship Mora: Melbourne in the 1950s’, Meanjin 2.1996 (winter), pp.293-305.

  • de Berg, Hazel (1965), '[Oral history tape]’, Canberra, ACT : National Library of Australia.

  • Harris, Max; & Dutton, Geoffrey (1968), 'The Vital Decade : ten years of Australian art and letters’, Melbourne, Vic : Sun.

  • Lynn, Elwyn (1963), 'Contemporary Drawing’, Melbourne, Vic : Longmans.

  • McCulloch, Alan (1984), 'Encyclopedia of Australian Art’, Melbourne, Vic : Hutchinson of Australia (2nd edition).

  • McGuire, Margaret (1995), 'Wanting Eyes’, Prahran, Vic : Champion, in All things opposite : essays on Australian Art, pp 83-95.

  • Mora, Mirka (2000), 'Wicked but Virtuous : My Life (autobiography)’, Ringwood, Vic : Viking.

  • Reed, John (1963), 'New Painting 1952-62’, Melbourne, Vic : Longmans.

  • Mirka Mora, Agony Aunts ABC TV

    http://www.abc.net.au/tv/agonyaunts/characters/mirka-mora.htm

  • Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery History Archive

    http://www.qvmag.tas.gov.au/upfiles/qvmag/imglib/collections/CHS89%20Launceston%20Contemporary%20Art%20Organisations.pdf

Initial data sources

  • Legacy data. Source 'unknown'
  • Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery History Archive.

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