AUSTRALIAN ART West Australiana Biography –

Exhibition Catalogue with essays.

Elizabeth Blair Barber lived a life of movement; travelling the world, exploring the southwest of Western Australia and immersed in the social and aesthetic fabric of the artistic community of Perth.

From the moment she was enrolled in Henri Van Raalte’s Perth School of Art (1920), to the closure of her studio and exhibiting space at the Cremorne Art Gallery (1981), she was a regular presence in Perth’s art scene. She consistently observed and recorded the everyday, the world about her in her paintings. Hers was truly a life lived amongst artists.

This exhibition is curated by Connie Petrillo and it draws from Elizabeth Blair Barber’s archive of works that are put into aesthetic and historical context amongst the work of her friends and associates; including Henri van Raalte, Harald Vike, Audrey Greenhalgh and Guy Grey Smith.

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