Dorothy Braund at the Mornington Gallery
As mentioned in a few posts recently, not long ago I went to the Know My Name exhibition at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery with fellow blog writers, Jane and Caroline. This Gallery was hosting a subset exhibition of a larger exhibition in Canberra, Australia.
The Know My Name initiative is part of an ongoing series of gender equity displays which seeks to raise the profile of women artists who have previously been omitted from published histories and public collections. 1
This travelling exhibition draws from a two-part exhibition which was held over 2020- 2022. Caroline and I wrote about that, and you can read our posts if you click the links in the footnotes below. The initiative especially focusses on moments in which women created new forms of art and cultural commentary through time, dating back to the 19th century, right up to modern times. 1
A number of artists that we have featured on the blog previously were represented, such as Margaret Preston, Dorrit Black, Grace Cossington Smith, Cressida Campbell and Hermia Boyd, just to name a few.
In August 2019, Caroline wrote a lovely post on Australian artist, Dorothy Braund (1926 – 2013). You might like to re-read Caroline’s post for some background information on Dorothy......
Caroline
As Caroline explained in her post, Dorothy’s style is known as Narrative Cubism and I think it is quite a captivating, if unusual, way of presenting her subjects.
We were all pleased to see that a number of her works were part of the Know My Name exhibition at the Mornington Gallery, which I have included here below as I thought you might like to see them too!
I find Cubism really fascinating! What do you think? Do you like the work of Dorothy Braund, or do you find it too “abstract”? Let us know what you think!
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