- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: PR00789
Stannage, Miriam Helen
(1939 – 2016)- Born 1 January, 1939, Northam Western Australia Australia
- Died 11 September, 2016, Western Australia
- Occupation Artist, Photographer
Summary
Miriam Stannage was born in Northam, Western Australia, in 1939, and was a painter, photographer and printmaker. She travelled to Europe and the USA in the early 1960s, returning to Perth influenced by ‘new developments in geographical abstraction’. Stannage studied with William Boissevain 1963-64, then with Henry Froudist 1965-68, as well as at Claremont Technical College, Perth. Extensive travels in the Australian bush are evident in her work, which also often uses text in order enhance her particular form of social commentary. Stannage’s first solo exhibition was in 1969 at the Old Fire Station Gallery, Perth, and she was exhibited in major galleries across Australia. Her work is held in the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
Her final exhibition ‘Miriam Stannage: Survey 2006 – 2016’ was underway at the University of Western Australia’s Lawrence Wilson Gallery at the time of her death.
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- Trove: Stannage, Miriam (1939-), http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-538592
- Grove Art Online Entry for Miriam Stannage, Hutchings, Patrick, http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/grove/art/T097861?q=miriam+stannage&search=quick&pos=1&_start=1#firsthit
- Looking Closely at Miriam Stannage, Art Gallery of Western Australia, http://www.artgallery.wa.gov.au/collections/documents/Stannage.pdf
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