Miriam Stannage b. 1939

Also known as Miriam Helen Stannage
  • Artist (Mixed Media Artist),
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (New Media Artist),
  • Artist (Photographer),
  • Artist (Painter)
Conceptual artist concerned with the politics of representation, appropriation and particularly photography, working frequently with text, found images and assemblage.
Tags: Conceptual art, assemblage
exhibited at
Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to now Part 1
Date
14 November 2020 - 4 July 2021
Place
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
Description

Know My Name is an exhibition in two parts at the National Gallery of Australia. It is the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of work by women, presented in a thematic rather than chronological form. It reveals relationships between the present and the past, relationships between artists, and common concerns.

Tags
Women artists, Feminism, Modernism, Indigenous, Painting, Video art, Multimedia, Photo-based art-work, Sculpture, Embroidery
Website
https://knowmyname.nga.gov.au/events/australian-women-artists-1900-now/
exhibited at
Look, Look Again
Date
20 October 2011 - 15 December 2012
Place
Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA
Description

Exhibition showcasing highlights from the Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art (CCWA), which was gifted to the University of Western Australia in 2007. A companion publication titled 'Into the Light’ that documented the history and key works of the CCWA was released to coincide with the exhibition, which also featured a symposium – 'Are we there yet?’ – discussing women’s participation in art and art history and the future of feminism in the arts.

Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.lwgallery.uwa.edu.au/exhibitions/past/look-look-again
exhibited at
Miriam Stannage photoworks
Date
2001
Place
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA
Description

This exhibition of Tannage’s work from the State Art Collection includes several recently acquired series of photographs.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
AGWA annual report; http://www.artgallery.wa.gov.au/past_ex/Mirriam%20Stannage.htm

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Photography
exhibited at
Looking West: Western Australian women artists from the City of Fremantle collection
Date
8 March 1995 - 2 July 1995
Place
Kathleen O'Connor Gallery, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, WA
Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
In the Company of Women: 100 years of Australian women's art from the Cruthers collection
Date
16 February 1995 - 13 March 1995
Place
PICA (Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts), WA
Description

Opened by Dr Liz Constable MLA, Member for Floreat, 15 February 1995

Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
Miriam Stannage: perception 1969-1989
Date
1989
Place
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA
Description

Toured to Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; Bunbury Art Gallery; Geraldton Regional Art Gallery. The third in a series of exhibitions undertaken by the gallery to survey the work of important mid-career artists in Western Australia. The exhibition spanned the artist’s 25 year career and included paintings, drawings, photographs and prints.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
AGWA annual report

Exhibition Catalogue:
Miriam Stannage: perception 1969-1989. Perth: Art Gallery of Western Australia, 1989
ISBN 0 7309 0719 8

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Solo Survey, Painting, Printmaking, Drawing
exhibited at
Western Australian women artists
Date
24 April 1981 - c.May 1981
Place
Galerie Düsseldorf, Perth, WA
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Peter Cooley : Deidre Dowman : Miriam Stannage
Date
11 October 1980 - c.1980
Place
Hogarth Galleries, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
It's great to be an Australian woman?
Date
3 November 1975 - c.November 1975
Place
Hogarth Galleries, Sydney, New South Wales
Type
Exhibition
Tags
International Women's Year