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Vicki Varvaressos b. 1949

Artist (Painter),
Artist (Draughtsman)

Vicki Varvaressos is a Sydney based artist whose early work was influenced by the urban activism of Victoria street, in Sydney's Wooloomooloo. Her distinctive painterly style came to characterise new wave feminism of the 1970s. Later her style evolved into a painterly abstraction as well as meditative portraits.

Tags: feminism, expressionism, painterly

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Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art at the University of Western Australia

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http://www.lwgallery.uwa.edu.au/collections/ccwa
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT

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Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

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The Art Gallery of New South Wales began in the 1870s as an aspect of the Academy of Art. Later it became known as the National Art Gallery of NSW. This name persisted beyond Federation in 1901. It was given its present name in 1958.
It remains the principal collecting and exhibiting body in NSW and is governed by the Art Gallery of New South Wales Act of 1980.

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https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/

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Vicki Varvaressos b. 1949

Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art at the University of Western Australia

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

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