elizabeth durack
biographical summary
ELIZABETH DURACK (1915-2000)
b. and d. Perth, Western Australia
exhibitions [selected]
> 65 solo and numerous group exhibitions
- Time & Tide Art Gallery of WA 1946
- Paintings Tye's Gallery, Melbourne 1949
- Recent Australian Painting Whitechapel Gallery, London 1961
- Retrospective Art Gallery of WA 1964
- ...black swan of trespass... World Trade Center, New York 1979
- Out of Sight — Out of Mind Perth Cultural Centre 1991
- Derivations & Directions Art Gallery of WA 1995
- Glimpses of the Ngarangani Durack Gallery, Broome 1997
- The Art of Eddie Burrup Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London 2000
murals, painting series & commissions [selected]
- Coastline Darwin Club 1947
- Cord to Altcheringa UWA 1953
- Chant for Kurdaitcha UWA 1954
- Love Magic private collection and UWA 1954
- Legend of the Black Swan Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth 1956
- Shearing, its practice & poetry Australian Wool Board, Melbourne 1960
- The Argyle, Auvergne, Moolaboola, Cunderlee, Mulga Queen & Wiluna Scrolls AIATSIS, Canberra 1963-64
- Bougainville Island Panels CRA [Rio Tinto], Melbourne 1968
- Background to Hamersley Iron Tom Price WA CRA [Rio Tinto], Melbourne & Perth 1969
- Moolaboola Horse Muster Northern Cattle Co, Sydney 1978
- The rim of our brittle & disintegrating world... a continuum 1970s-90s
- Bett-Bett's wonderful lonely palace... a continuum 1980s
- Marandoo for Hamersley Iron, Perth and Melbourne 1992
- Dreaming up the Victoria 1994
- The Art of Eddie Burrup c.1940s-2000
publications
- > illustrator of nine books written by her sister Mary Durack notably The Way of the Whirlwind Consolidated Press Sydney 1941, and of five books by other writers notably Australian Legendary Tales collected by K. Langloh Parker, Angus & Robertson Sydney 1953
- > author/illustrator of
- Face Value, Women of PNG Ure Smith Sydney 1969
- Seeing — through Papua New Guinea The Hawthorn Press Melbourne 1969
- Seeing — through the Philippines The Hawthorn Press Melbourne 1971
- Seeing — through Indonesia The Hawthorn Press Melbourne 1977
- > author/illustrator of eight manuscripts including
- Signature 1948
- The house that took off 1963
- The Time of Our Lives 1985
- The Art of Eddie Burrup 1997
- Reinvent — how I reinvented myself in my 80th year 1995-2000
represented
> in public and private collections, nationally and internationally
awards
- Hon D Litt (U of Western Australia) 1996
- Hon D Litt (Murdoch U) 1994
- CMG Companion of The Order of St Michael & St George 1982
- OBE The Order of the British Empire 1966
bibliography [selected]
- P Æ Hutchings (ed) The Art of Elizabeth Durack The Western Mail, Perth 1981
- John Scott Landscapes of Western Australia Aeolian Press, Perth 1986
- McCulloch’s Encyclopaedia of Australian Art Miegunyah Press and Aus Art Editions Melbourne 2006