Title

Fasken, Myrtle.

Author

Butler, Roger.

Source

[Not applicable]

Publication date

1981

Type

Biography

Language

English

Country of context

Australia

Full text

Myrtle Fasken

Born in England in 1889, Myrtle Fasken studied at the Central School of Arts and Crafts from 1919 until 1923. In 1929 she visited her brother's sheep-station at Spring Valley, Victoria and made a number of sheep shearing sketches from which she cut a series of wood-engravings on her return to London. These were exhibited in Australia in 1932. She was a friend of Jessie Traill, Ethel Spowers and Eveline Syme. Fasken died in 1972.

© Roger Butler, 1981.

Published in Melbourne Woodcuts & Linocuts of the 1920s & 1930s, exhibition catalogue, Ballarat: Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, 1981.