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Elizabeth Ann Gower (born 1952) is a recognised Australian artist[1] who lives and works in Melbourne. Her work developed as a young artist during the 1970s feminist movement.[2] Through her four decades of teaching she has influenced many of Melbourne's younger artists.[3]

Artistic career

Gower's interest is in the human desire to create order from the chaotic. She creates collages and wall hangings, largely abstract compositions from domestic materials such as newspaper and tissue paper,[4] as well as on transparent surfaces of fish, crabs and other crustaceans, fruit and vegetables, grasses, beetles, butterflies, flowers, insects, snakes, frogs, animals and shoes.[5]

In 2005 Kate Just outlined substantial changes in Gower's practice in a review in Eyeline journal: "In recent years, however, Gower’s collecting has eschewed the material world in favour of more evocative things: meaningful events, conversations and places that have marked the world at large. After September 11, Gower compiled lists of significant attacks, invasions, battles, or conflicts which took place in the modern world between September 11, 1901 and September 11, 2001 and presented them on long sheets of drafting film."[6]

She has been exhibiting since the 1970s and is represented by Sutton Gallery in Melbourne.[4] The Geelong Art Gallery hosted the first major survey of Gower's work for nearly two decades in 2018, which covered significant bodies of work from early 2000 onwards.[3]

Academic career

Gower has held teaching positions at the University of Melbourne and the Victorian College of the Arts and is an Honorary Fellow of the University.[7]

Works

Solo exhibitions

Gower's solo exhibitions include:

  • Cuttings, Geelong Gallery, Geelong, 2018[4]
  • Delineations, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, 2017[4]
  • he loves me, he loves me not, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, 2016[4]
  • Matrix, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, 2015[4]
  • 365 Rotations, AC Institute, New York, 2014[4]
  • Monochrome, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, 2012[4]
  • Amor Infiniti, AC Institute, New York, 2009[4]
  • Artefacts, Cite Internationale des Arts Gallery, Paris, 2007[4]
  • Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne,1984[1]
  • Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 1982[1]
  • Coventry Gallery, Sydney, 1981[1]
  • Power Street Gallery, Melbourne, 1977[1]
  • Hawthorn City Art Gallery, Melbourne, 1975[1]

Group exhibitions

Gower has taken part in the following group exhibitions:  

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j 150 Victorian women artists. Melbourne: Women 150. 1985. ISBN 0-9589286-0-6. OCLC 13214779.
  2. ^ "Elizabeth Gower: He loves me he loves me not". Artlink Magazine. Archived from the original on 2020-03-08. Retrieved 2020-03-08.
  3. ^ a b "Cuttings – Elizabeth Gower". Australian Arts Review. 2018-08-30. Retrieved 2020-03-08.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r "Elizabeth Gower". Sutton Gallery. Retrieved 2020-03-08.
  5. ^ "Design and Art Australia ONLINE".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. ^ "Elizabeth Gower". eyeline contemporary art magazine australia. Retrieved 2020-03-08.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. ^ "Dr Elizabeth Gower". findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au. Retrieved 2020-03-08.
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