Anne Marie Hall 'Untitled (Shades of Blue)' women artists Pigment blooms across the paper

Pigment blooms across the paper

Silvi GLATTAUER (1966 - )

‘The Carhill Expressway’ fuses together two iconic works of Australian art – John Brack’s ‘The car’ (1955) and Jeffrey Smart’s ‘Cahill Expressway’ (1962)

Whiteley rendered the views of Sydney Harbour with such a sensual eye and fluid hand that they have seamlessly found their way into the Australian consciousness

Anne Marie Hall 'Untitled (Shades of Blue)' women artists Pigment blooms across the paperIn this petite portrait, Anne Marie Hall paints an enigmatic figure. Despite the palette of blues and pinks, the subject appears reticent, as though lost in a memory we cannot access. With a wide mouth, soulful eyes and curled hair, it is captured with raw intimacy. Like Hester and Mirka Mora, Hall forged a compelling female voice in the otherwise male dominated realm of Australian modernism. That her practice was at times overshadowed by her marriage