Mary Moore (born 25 June 1957) is a Western Australian artist. Her paintings are inspired by the day-to-day existence of her family, creating works that speak of optimism and confidence about life.[1] She makes spaces that she charges with her meanings so that people who look at them can become evolved and make up their own stories.[2]
Her work 'Big brain' was produced while she was a student in printmaking at WAIT (now Curtin University). Her approach derives from pop art, making use of puns, such as her Gay Paris and the Eyefull Tower from her stamp series,[3] and incorporating throw away items to comment on contemporary culture.[4]
In 1999 she was part of the group exhibition Rebirth, Western Australian Women Celebrating a Century of Change at the Moores Building and curated by Lyn DiCiero.[5]
Solo exhibitions
editMoore has exhibited at museums and galleries in Australia:[1][3]
- 1991 Self Portrait, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia[6]
- 1989 Artist in Focus 7 - Mary Moore, Art Gallery of Western Australia[2]
- 1983 Gallery 52, Claremont, WA
- 1982 Prints from London - Drawings from everywhere, Gallery A, Sydney
- 1981 Gallery 52, Claremont, WA
- 1979 Drawings x Paintings, Fremantle Arts Centre, WA
- 1977 Red Dingo Show, Undercroft Gallery, UWA
Collections
editMoore's work is included in public collections,[1] including
References
edit- ^ a b c The Painted image : twenty contemporary Western Australian painters. Snell, Ted. [Perth, W.A.]: Visual Culture Research Unit, Curtin University of Technology. 1991. ISBN 1863420347. OCLC 27080109.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ a b Mary Moore. Moore, Mary., Art Gallery of Western Australia. Perth: Art Gallery of Western Australia. 1989. ISBN 0730907430. OCLC 223072210.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ a b Contemporary Western Australian painters and printmakers. Mason, Murray,, Renés, Patricia. Fremantle, W.A.: Fremantle Arts Centre Press. 1979. ISBN 0909144184. OCLC 27595577.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ Australia., University of Western (1998). Swingtime : East Coast-West Coast : works from the 1960s-70s in the University of Western Australia art collection. Gray, Anne, 1947-, McQueen, Humphrey, 1942-, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery. Nedlands, W.A.: Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery. ISBN 0864228333. OCLC 38829510.
- ^ Rebirth : Western Australian women celebrating a century of change. Altmann, Janice M., Rechichi, Elizabeth. Perth, W.A.: Artist's Chronicle. 1999. OCLC 222814700.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ Moore, Mary (1991). Self-portrait, Mary Moore : Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, the University of Western Australia, 2 June - 14 July 1991. Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery. [Nedlands, W.A.]: Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, the University of Western Australia. ISBN 0864221193. OCLC 27598162.