Leo Bensemann Rita Angus 1938. Pencil on paper. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū 2014
Rita Angus Irises 1942. Watercolour. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, Lawrence Baigent/Robert Erwin bequest 2003. Reproduced courtesy of the estate of Rita Angus
Zina Swanson Some People's Plants Never Flower … 2007. Mixed media - glass, wood, organic material. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū 2007, purchased with the support of Coffey Projects
Frances Hodgkins Houses and Outhouses, Purbeck 1938. Oil on canvas. On loan from the British Council Collection, London
This exhibition is now closed
Three influential female artists united by talent, tenacity and self-belief.
Virginia Woolf wrote of the need for a figurative space of privacy and concentration, free from interruption, family responsibilities and financial constraints. Artists Rita Angus, Frances Hodgkins and Louise Henderson were well aware of the need to safeguard themselves from the derailments of societal expectation. Each required talent, tenacity, self-belief and good fortune to sustain her career, and together they created valuable precedents for those who followed.
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Date:
18 December 2015 – 29 May 2016 -
Curator:
Felicity Milburn -
Exhibition number:
995
