Australian Women Artists

Australian women artists:
If amongst initiates, in the sense of savants, of connoisseurs, then some may know as Australian women artists people like fantacinematic ( if you allow me the term!) Tracey Moffat ( picture)- also because she is so active in Europe-, perhaps Margaret Olley, maybe Caroline Williams, if really lucky you may know of the giant Margaret Cilento has been.

Margaret Cilento has painted for over 50 years and has painted like I have seen paint very few painters. Her life, her art have been so convincing that it is almost incredible that no exhibitions have taken place since her recent death. In the last three years I have had so many opportunitites to think about her work but thinking an artists is not enough.
Her work has evolved over half a century from London to New York, from Marseille to Spain to Australia with an authencity and a tenacity that deserves study and close appreciation ( for her life see what her great writer and designer daughter says of her here:

http://www.ailae.org/pdf/MargaretCilento.pdf )

This short appeal here is to celebrate a gigantic artist and a woman that has left a profound sign in my thinking about art and in my life. Please get to know Margaret Cilento if you can ( self portrait a cote'). Also look at this if you can :

http://www.artmuseum.qut.edu.au/downloads/BNG-Education-kit.pdf

and discover these 1920's or so women. I don't give damn about modernism and the like at this point but I wish that such convincing art could be more known.

Long live:
Margaret Cilento, Pamela Macfarlane, Margaret Olley,Betty Quelhurst,Joy Loggenkamp, Kathleen Shillam