Normana Wight b. 1936

  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Screen Artist),
  • Artist (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer)
Painter, printmaker and weaver whose diverse practice includes portraits with flowers and combining tapestry with digital media.
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The Field
Date
1968
Place
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC
Description

The Field was the first temporary exhibition in the newly opened National Gallery of Victoria building in St Kilda Road. Its curators, John Stringer and Brian Finemore, proudly proclaimed its partisanship as it celebrated the work of a new generation of Australian abstract artists.
“It is not impartial and comprehensive. It is biassed to define one particular direction in contemporary Australian art,” they wrote.
The Field was held a year after MoMA’s Two Decades of American Painting travelled to Sydney and Melbourne, and both its content and its catalogue were significantly influenced by that exhibition. Its professional production as much as the content of the lively hard edge abstract works encouraged the perception that this was the avant garde in Australia in 1968.
In 2018, the 50th anniversary of The Field, the National Gallery of Victoria recreated the exhibition at Federation Square.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Colour field, Abstract, Hard edge, Minimalism

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Periods active
  • c.1954 -
  • c.1954 - c.2001
Residences
  • 1962 - 1963 Central School of Arts and Crafts, London, England, UK
  • 1965 - 1966 Mittagong, New South Wales
  • 1964 - 1965 Sydney, New South Wales
  • 1936 - 1964 Melbourne, Victoria
  • c.2001 Melbourne, Victoria
  • c.1975 - c.2001 Queensland
  • 1986 - 1987 Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
  • 2001 - Queensland
  • 1962 - 1963 Central School of Arts and Crafts, London, England, UK
  • 1965 - 1966 Mittagong, New South Wales
  • 1964 - 1965 Sydney, New South Wales
  • 1936 - 1964 Melbourne, Victoria
  • c.2001 Victoria
  • c.1975 - c.2001 Queensland
Other occupations
  • Fabric designer (ANZSIC code: 1312) 1958 Melbourne, Victoria
Trainings
  • Diploma in painting, 1954 - 1957 Melbourne Technical College (RMIT), Melbourne, VIC
  • Etching, 1962 - 1963 Central School of Arts and Crafts, London, England, UK
  • Short course in Renaissance Art History, 1963 Academy of Art, Florence, Italy
  • 1962 - 1963 London, England, UK
  • 1954 - 1957 Painting, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Victoria
Related people
  • Murdoch, Elisabeth (associate of)
  • Murdoch, Elisabeth (associate of)
Related person groups
  • Central Street Gallery (associate of)
  • Victoria Tapestry Workshop (associate of)
  • Central Street Gallery (associate of)
  • Victoria Tapestry Workshop (associate of)
Related works
  • Dame Elisabeth Murdoch (creator of)
  • Dame Elisabeth Murdoch (creator of)
Related collections
  • Monash University, Mebourne (collected in)
  • Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle (collected in)
  • National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • Monash University, Mebourne (collected in)
  • Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle (collected in)
  • National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
Related events
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