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Ogilvie was born in [[Corowa]] and grew up in rural [[New South Wales]] where she would go sketching with her mother, Henrietta, a watercolourist, before her family moved to [[Melbourne]] in 1920. There Helen attended the [[National Gallery of Victoria Art School|National Gallery School]] in 1922-25 |
Ogilvie was born in [[Corowa]] and grew up in rural [[New South Wales]] where she would go sketching with her mother, Henrietta, a watercolourist, before her family moved to [[Melbourne]] in 1920. There Helen attended the [[National Gallery of Victoria Art School|National Gallery School]] in 1922-25 though she did not enjoy its conservative approach, though in her last year her style was influenced by [[George Bell (painter)|George Bell]] where he briefly was the drawing master.<ref>Sheridan Palmer, All this I knew: Helen Ogilvie retrospective exhibition, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, 1995, pp. 1–2</ref><ref>Amelia Saward, 'Helen Ogilvie: Australian modernism and a changing sense of place,' in {{Cite web|last=Younger|first=Gavin|date=2019-07-17|title=Issue 23, December 2018|url=https://museumsandcollections.unimelb.edu.au/research_and_publications/university_of_melbourne_collections_magazine/issue-23,-december-2018|access-date=2020-10-12|website=Museums and Collections|language=en}}</ref> While at the School she became a member of the [[Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors]] |
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== Career == |
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Revision as of 11:35, 12 October 2020
Helen Elizabeth Ogilvie (1902–1993) was a twentieth-century Australian artist and gallery director, cartoonist, painter, printmaker and craftworker, best known for her early linocuts and woodcuts, and her later oil paintings of vernacular colonial buildings.
Early life and education
Ogilvie was born in Corowa and grew up in rural New South Wales where she would go sketching with her mother, Henrietta, a watercolourist, before her family moved to Melbourne in 1920. There Helen attended the National Gallery School in 1922-25 though she did not enjoy its conservative approach, though in her last year her style was influenced by George Bell where he briefly was the drawing master.[1][2] While at the School she became a member of the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors
Career
Inspired by seeing a book of Claude Flight’s Modernist linocuts in 1928,[3] Ogilvie produced many linocuts and woodcuts from the 1930s onwards,[4] and subsequently, wood-engravings. Many were exhibited, but in an effort to survive in the Depression years she also produced bookplates, greeting cards, and later, illustrations for books including Russell Grimwade’s Flinders Lane: recollections of Alfred Felton (Melbourne University Press,Carlton, 1947) and J.D.G. Medley’s Stolen and Surreptitious Verses (1952).
During WW2 Ogilvie worked in the Red Cross Rehabilitation Service at Heidelberg Military Hospital where she taught patients lino- and wood-cutting and basketmaking using Australian-grown plants.[5]
Gallerist
After the war, as the director of Stanley Coe Gallery for the period 1949-55, Ogilvie organised exhibitions of the avant-garde;[6]John Brack,[7] Margo Lewers, Leonard French (who showed his Illiad series, amongst his earliest experiments with enamel house paint on Masonite, October 1952),[8] Inge King,[9] Arthur Boyd (15–24 September 1953), Charles Blackman, whose radical series of schoolgirl paintings were shown there in May 1953, Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack (whose first Australian show in a commercial gallery was there in 1953), Helen Maudsley, Clifton Pugh,[10] Michael Shannon and others.
London
In 1956 she moved to London where she was engaged with the Crafts Revival of the 1950s and 60s, and made a living designing cutting edge lampshades in London for a period. She began to paint small studies of Australian rural buildings, holding two successful solo exhibitions of them in London.
Return to Australia
Ogilvie returned to Australia in 1963 where the subjects of her paintings and drawings continued to be humble rural buildings which she was aware were disappearing. By the late 1970s she was producing little work but remained interested in the art world. Her last solo exhibition opened at aGOG (australian Girls' Own Gallery), Canberra, on her 89th birthday, 4 May 1991. She died suddenly in Melbourne on 1 August 1993.
Exhibitions
- 1963 Leicester Galleries, Mayfair, London[11]
- 1974, 2–13 June: Leveson Street Gallery, Melbourne.[12]
Publications
Maxwell, Helen (1995), Helen Ogilvie : Wood engravings, Brindabella Press, ISBN 978-0-909422-24-0
References
- ^ Sheridan Palmer, All this I knew: Helen Ogilvie retrospective exhibition, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, 1995, pp. 1–2
- ^ Amelia Saward, 'Helen Ogilvie: Australian modernism and a changing sense of place,' in Younger, Gavin (2019-07-17). "Issue 23, December 2018". Museums and Collections. Retrieved 2020-10-12.
- ^ Maxwell, Helen (1995). "Helen Elizabeth Ogilvie biography". Design and Art Australia Online.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Ogilvie, Helen, 1902-1993. (1995). Wood engravings. Canberra: Brindabella Press. ISBN 0-909422-24-9. OCLC 38359628.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Interesting People". The Australian Women's Weekly. Vol. 10, , no. 45. Australia, Australia. 10 April 1943. p. 14. Retrieved 12 October 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) - ^ "Young people buy pictures". The Argus. No. 33, 031. Melbourne. 16 July 1952. p. 6 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Shore, Arnold (1955). 'Artist stresses human values'. (8 March 1955). The Argus (Melbourne, Victoria: 1848– 1957), p. 13. Retrieved 8 July 2015, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71637449
- ^ Johnson, George & Heathcote, C. R. (Christopher Robin) & Zimmer, Jenny, (editor.) (2006). George Johnson : world view. South Yarra, Vic. Macmillan Art Publishing
- ^ Inge King's art has "the gadget air". (21 October 1952). The Argus (Melbourne, Victoria: 1848–1957), p. 5. Retrieved 8 July 2015, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article23217241
- ^ "Four art styles". The Argus. Melbourne. 21 June 1955. p. 9 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ catalogue, Helen Ogilvie: Australian country dwellings, London: Leicester Galleries, 1963
- ^ Ogilvie, Helen; Leveson Street Gallery (1974), Helen Ogilvie, Leveson Street Gallery