Ethel Carrick | Anne Dangar Exhibitions

This summer, at the National Gallery presents two exhibitions – Ethel Carrick and Anne Dangar. These exhibitions bring together the work of two ground-breaking women artists who deserve to be better known, highlighting the groundbreaking contributions of these exceptional artists. Working in parallel in the first decades of the twentieth century, both women pushed against convention, made France their base and forged unique artistic paths. The outlooks of both artists were shaped by developments in French art, and they shared their experiences and new ideas with their Australian networks.

Ethel Carrick (1872‒1952) was a gifted painter and colourist who was among the first artists to introduce Australia to a post-impressionist approach. An intrepid traveller, Carrick had a fascinating life, and this retrospective brings new insights into her remarkable artistic legacy, nationally and internationally. Anne Dangar (1885‒1951) is one of Australia’s most significant yet
underacknowledged modern artists. Living in the rural town of Sablons, France, she worked and exhibited alongside European cubists as their artistic peer, all the while exerting an impact on Australian abstraction.

‘It’s people who attract me. Crowds are to me what a magnet is to a needle. I love the colour, life, movement, and individuality of a crowd.’
Ethel Carrick

These simultaneous exhibitions are Know My Name projects, the National Gallery’s initiative celebrating the work of all women artists to enhance understanding of their contribution to Australia’s cultural life.

See the Ethel Carrick and Anne Dangar exhibitions this summer. Only at the National Gallery, Kamberri/Canberra. Free Entry.

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