‘Women Painting Women’ is a major exhibition of portraiture in traditional oil painting and bronze sculpture. It presents award-winning realist painters from Victoria and New South Wales including Fiona Bilbrough, Jacqui Grantford, Raelene Sharp, Sally Ryan, Vicki Sullivan, Avril Thomas and sculptor Heather Ellis.
Featuring portraits of well known Australian women such as Nobel Prize Nominee Dr Catherine Hamlin, actors Kerri Armstrong and Jacqui Weaver, opera singer Liane Keegan, and self-portraits of the artists, the exhibition highlights the power and insight of women painting women and celebrates traditional realist painting and the talent of female artists.
Burrinja Cultural Centre
Until 29 May, 2016
Melbourne
Vicki Sullivan, Waiting in The Old China Café, 2012, 120 x 90cm
Courtesy the artist and Burrinja Cultural Centre, Melbourne
