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Elizabeth Ann Gower
Elizabeth Gower (born 1952 in Adelaide, South Australia) is an Australian abstract artist known for paper and mixed-media monochrome and coloured collages who lives and works in Melbourne. Gower has also exhibited large textile and paper installations as well as collected and recycled objects and images. Her work developed as a young artist during the 1970s feminist movement and has also been influenced by Christianity. Through her four decades of teaching she has influenced many of Melbourne's younger artists.
Artistic career
Gower's interest is in the human desire to create order from the chaotic. She creates collages and wall hangings, largely abstract compositions from domestic materials such as newspaper and tissue paper, as well as on transparent surfaces of fish, crabs and other crustaceans, fruit and vegetables, grasses, beetles, butterflies, flowers, insects, snakes, frogs, animals and shoes.
In 2005 Kate Just outlined substantial changes in Gower's practice in a review in Eyeline journal: "In recent years, however, Gower’s collecting has eschewed the material world in favour of more evocative things: meaningful events, conversations and places that have marked the world at large. After September 11, Gower compiled lists of significant attacks, invasions, battles, or conflicts which took place in the modern world between September 11, 1901 and September 11, 2001 and presented them on long sheets of drafting film."
She has been exhibiting since the 1970s and is represented by Sutton Gallery in Melbourne. The Geelong Art Gallery hosted the first major survey of Gower's work for nearly two decades in 2018, which covered significant bodies of work from early 2000 onwards.
Academic career
Gower has held teaching positions at the University of Melbourne and the Victorian College of the Arts and is an Honorary Fellow of the University.
Works
Solo exhibitions
Gower's solo exhibitions include:
- Cuttings, Geelong Gallery, Geelong, 2018
- Delineations, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, 2017
- he loves me, he loves me not, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, 2016
- Matrix, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, 2015
- 365 Rotations, AC Institute, New York, 2014
- Monochrome, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, 2012
- Amor Infiniti, AC Institute, New York, 2009
- Artefacts, Cite Internationale des Arts Gallery, Paris, 2007
- Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne,1984
- Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 1982
- Coventry Gallery, Sydney, 1981
- Power Street Gallery, Melbourne, 1977
- Hawthorn City Art Gallery, Melbourne, 1975
Group exhibitions
Gower has taken part in the following group exhibitions:
- Unfinished Business: perspectives on feminism and art, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
- Elevating the Everyday, The Town Hall Gallery, Melbourne, 2018
- Abstraction: celebrating Australian women abstract artists, Geelong Gallery, Geelong, 2017
- Virtual Reality, Point B, New York, 2016
- Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2014
- Collage: The Heide Collection, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 2013
- Black elastic, two umbrellas, a mint leaf and wheels, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2012
- Stick it! Australian Collage, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2010
- Cubism and Australian Art, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 2009
- Hugh Williamson Prize, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, 1984
- Australian Perspecta, Art Gallery of NSW, 1981
- Drawn and Quartered, Australian Contemporary Paperworks, Art Gallery of SA, 1980
- Biennale of Sydney, European Dialogue, 1979
- 'The Women's Show', Experimental Art Foundation, 1977
References
- ^ 150 Victorian women artists. Melbourne: Women 150. 1985. ISBN 0-9589286-0-6. OCLC 13214779.
- "Elizabeth Gower: He loves me he loves me not". Artlink Magazine. Archived from the original on 2020-03-08. Retrieved 2020-03-08.
- Burke, Janine (2002). Beyond the everyday: the art of Elizabeth Gower: a Glen Eira City Council exhibition. Melbourne, Australia: City of Glen Eira. ISBN 1876832908.
- Gower, Elizabeth. National Gallery of Australia Ephemera. Australian and New Zealand Art Files
- ^ "Cuttings – Elizabeth Gower". Australian Arts Review. 2018-08-30. Retrieved 2020-03-08.
- ^ "Elizabeth Gower". Sutton Gallery. Retrieved 2020-03-08.
- "Design and Art Australia ONLINE".
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