MSWPS and its history
The Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors aims to provide help and encouragement to women artists and organises facilities for exhibiting their work. Lectures demonstrations, media workshops and regular life and portrait workshops are run by the Society to give members the opportunity to meet fellow artists and to work together.
The Society has a long and proud history as the oldest surviving women’s art group in Australia. Previously thought to have been founded in 1901, recent research indicates that the Society was begun in March 1902, by a group of former students from the Art School at the National Gallery of Victoria.
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DIARY DATES 2019
DIARY DATES: LIFE DRAWING – Thursdays 10.30AM – 12.30 $10 Members GENERAL MEETINGS: 2nd MAY- 1.00PM until 3.00PM ‘My Great Aunt Clarice Beckett’ TALK by Sharon Brennan. 31st MAY – TRAIN EXCURSION to BALLARAT ART GALLERY…
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GENERAL MEETING – Guest Speaker Sharon Brennan
“I never knew my Great Aunt Clarice. I can speak of family and look at some of the things I have found which belonged to Clarice Beckett 1887-1935, my Grandmother’s sister.” GENERAL MEETING 1.00PM UNTIL 3.00PM…
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NATURE INSPIRED – Angela Abbott and Sylvia Isaac
Dear Members, Angela and Sylvia extend an invitation to you all to attend their exhibition NATURE INSPIRED – An exhibition of recent paintings by MSWPS Members ANGELA ABBOTT & SYLVIA ISAAC please see MEET OUR MEMBERS…
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