Grace Cossington Smith Interiors

Interiors exteriors brings together a group of artists whose work enriches our experience of the everyday living in a place.

Grace cossington smith interiors. Loquat tree gum and wattle trees waterfall picnic in a gully is painted 1930 bridge in curve is painted around this time 1931 cossington smith s mother grace dies. Grace cossington smith ao obe grace cossington smith self portrait 1948 oil on cardboard 39 5 x 30 7 cm national portrait gallery. In 1926 cossington smith had joined thea proctor ralph balson grace crowley roland wakelin and other modernist artists in the contemporary group with whom she exhibited for many years.

Grace cossington smith 1892 1984 artist was born on 20 april 1892 at cossington neutral bay sydney second of five children of ernest smith london born crown solicitor and his wife grace née fisher daughter of the rector and squire of cossington leicestershire. A sacred place fourth dimensional. Grace cossington smith 1965.

Church interior holds a special place in grace cossington smith s art practice as one of a small important group of works she painted with a religious theme. Grace cossington smith s radiant still lifes and interiors of the 1950s and 60s are broadly considered to mark the culmination of her career. As australian writer david malouf has written of the potential of art.

Cossington smith paints poinsettias and. As ethel anderson said of grace cossington smith in 1925 there were truly great artists in australia and she had just met one of them 9. 12 march 16 april 2016.

In this painting short brushstrokes of pure colour animate the pictorial surface highlighting grace cossington smith s skill as a colourist. These works increase our awareness of what exists around us engaging our senses but also of taking all that into. 1 daniel thomas grace cossington smith sydney.

Space and time fulfil the prediction. By the mid 1950s the artist had begun to concentrate primarily on domestic interiors party due to the fact that her much loved sister had become ill. Art gallery of new south wales 1973 p 6 exhibition catalogue.