Title

Anne Dangar at Moly-Sabata: Tradition and innovation.

Venues

National Gallery Of Australia (13 July 2001 – 28 October 2001)

Date

(2001)

Summary

Single-artist exhibition. Located: Australia (ACT). Paintings, Ceramics

Curator

Helen Topliss

Web address

http://www.nga.gov.au/dangar/index.cfm

Country of context

Australia

Abstract

A trip to France in 1926 with the Sydney painter Grace Crowley led to Dangar moving to France in 1930 to take up residence with the artists’ community led by Albert Gleizes at Sablons, situated on the River Rhône. She immersed herself in the subsistence lifestyle characteristic of traditional peasant existence, learning to produce glazed terracotta ware in the Gallo-Roman manner. In drawing upon these ancient vernacular ceramic traditions, Dangar produced an innovative model of domestic ware that married these forms with her own experiments in Cubist inspired decoration during the 1930s – 40s. [Gallery media, 2001].