Rosemary valadon biography
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Biography
Rosemary Valadon is an award winning Australian artist (the Blake Religious Art Prize, Portia Geach Portrait Prize, Muswellbrook Art Prize, amongst others). She is a regular finalist in the Archibald, Sulman, Blake, Portia Geach and Mosman prizes. Her career spans 35 years, and survey Shows of her work were held at the Macquarie University Gallery and the Manning Regional Art Gallery, Taree, in 2006 and 2007, and Bathurst Regional Art Gallery in 2016. Valadon is represented in major Australian collections including BHP Billiton, National Portrait Gallery, Uniting Church, Macquarie University Gallery, Bathurst and Muswellbrook Regional Galleries, Art Bank, and private collections in Australia and overseas. Her interest in the ‘feminine’ and depictions of women throughout the ages has been a major focus of her work. This has been explored through the theatrical worlds of ancient mythologies, psychological theories, and fairy tales. These concerns received wide publ
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Rosemary Valadon
Rosemary Valadon (b. 1947) is a Sydney artist best known for large-scale oil paintings characterised by theatricality and opulence and informed with irony and feminism. Valadon studied the Meldrum style of tonal painting in the early 1970s and after travelling abroad returned to Sydney, where she completed a postgraduate diploma in art. Her interests at this time included philosophy, feminist discourse, art theory, spirituality and mythology. Between 1990 and 1996 she completed The Goddess Series, a major series of portraits of Australian women as mythological/archetypal figures, including Germaine Greer, Ruth Cracknell, Blanche d'Alpuget and Noni Hazlehurst. This was followed by paintings with themes including fairytales, wicked women and the four seasons. Valadon is a regular finalist in the Archibald, Sulman, Blake, Portia Geach and Mosman prizes, and in 1991 she won both the Portia Geach Prize and the Blake Prize for Religious Art.
Updated 2021
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