West Australian-born Lesley Moline (née O’Toole) studied at Perth Technical College before moving to Melbourne in 1933. From the late 1930s, she studied with Hayward Veal and with Graeme Inson at his Rowe Street studio in Sydney, and with Max Meldrum in Melbourne in 1952. She held her first solo exhibition in Sydney in 1965. That year, her painting of school principal, feminist and cricketer Betty Archdale, was selected for the Archibald Prize exhibition. She was a finalist again in 1966 with this painting of John Thornett. As well as portraits, Moline produced many paintings of Sydney-area landscapes. She died in Sydney in 2001.
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