MARGARET PRESTON ART AND LIFE
EXHIBITION
ARTIST
EVENTS
GARDEN TOURS
EDUCATION
ORDER CATALOGUE
Art Gallery of New South Wales 29 July to 23 October 2005
ARTIST
biography
‘in her own words’
1910s
1920s
1930s
1940s
1950s
‘in her own words’

Learn more about Margaret Preston’s ideas on art and Australia – as captured in her own words.

‘I’m personally aiming at the simplification of all forms and to express the monumental form and dry colour of Australian landscapes … I wish to continue the basic work of the Aborigines … What I am after in my work is to give the national, spiritual and characteristic features of this country’.

(‘Australian Artists speak’, radio 2FC 1945)

 
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Image: Margaret Preston in her garden Berowra 1937. Photograph by FJ Halmarick, Fairfaxphotos