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1930
*…’ it is high time we began to make
our homes more Australian in atmosphere … Oh those wretched
kookaburras, gum leaves and wattle blossoms done on cushions …
These … are degrading the art sense of a young nation. The
time has come for us to establish an Australian school of design
… ‘
(‘Away with poker-worked kookaburras
and gum leaves’, Sunday Pictorial 6 April 1930) |
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1935
* ‘I am trying in my work to start at the
beginning and not at the finish … I’m trying with my
cultivated knowledge to do away with all the imitativeness, the
copying of the past great masters of the world … I am trying
to find even one form which will express Australia in some way’
(‘Some recent paintings by Margaret
Preston’, Art in Australia May 1935) |
Image: Margaret and William Preston’s
bookplate by Adrian Feint. Preston
archive, Art Gallery of New South Wales
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