Rosemary MacLennan b.

  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Painter)
Irish Catholic feminist and socialist admirer of Georgia O'Keefe, MacLennan worked in Queensland in 1978, teaching at a girls' school and doing symbolic plant drawings.
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Biography <p>painter and teacher, is an Irish Catholic who attended art college in Ireland aged 17: </p> <p>

then I got married in my final year and started teaching. I absolutely never wanted to be a teacher but it was a safe, secure job that you could do and later I had to support my husband through his M.A. I have successfully got out of marriage, but there's no way I could abandon my children. In some ways my escape from marriage was an act of self-expression and I feel very free after it. But it hasn't helped my painting as I'm still hampered by all these domestic problems (interview, p.91).</p> <p>

A feminist and socialist admirer of Georgia O'Keefe, MacLennan worked in Queensland in 1978, teaching at a girls' school and doing symbolic plant drawings ('abstract archetype symbols that would be a symbol of the feminine in a very abstract way'). A drawing in <i>_Hecate</i>_ 2/1 (January 1976), 21, depicts a woman (apparently a self-portrait) in a tropical landscape with little Gothic church and mining frame.</p>