WOMEN IN ABSTRACTION

September 2 - October 28
ANZ Private Gallery, Melbourne
Curated by Camille Klose for James Makin Advisory

The ANZ Gallery presents Women in Abstraction, work by contemporary female artists working across the various fields of abstraction. Featuring work by Australian and New Zealand artists, the exhibition spotlights the remarkable contributions of contemporary female abstractionists to antipodean art history – and, indeed, art history at large. Historically dominated by men, it is significant that the female history of abstract art is now displayed.

Featuring the work of leading female artists, who draw upon the movement of abstraction.

Ensuring the visibility and recognition of female abstractionists is a historically significant project. Since its conception in the early twentieth century, female abstractionists have been categorically excluded from the history of the movement.

In a time where recuperative strategies of curation – that is, making visible artists who were once relegated to the back of the history books – is having a resurgence, this exhibition reminds us that we have to also celebrate and situate those artists practising now.

The exhibition features the works of Angela Brennan, Emma Coulter, Leslie Dumbrell, Wilma Tabacco, Lara Merett, Judy Millar, Rebecca Wallis, Antonia Sellbach, Nuha Saad, Noël Skrzypczak, Kate Tucker, and Eleanor Butt.

Photo Credits: Henry Trumble
Text Excerpts from Exhibition Catalogue Essay by Laura Kirkham.