Yvonne Audette (b. 1930), painter, studied under John Passmore at the Julian Ashton School from 1948 to 1952. In 1955, she embarked on a decade of travel and study in the USA, London, France, Spain and Italy, during which she mingled freely with the cutting-edge abstractionists of the day. She returned to Sydney, but moved to Melbourne, where she still lives and works, in 1969. In 1999 the Queensland Art Gallery mounted a major show of her works from the 1950s and 1960s, and a successful commercial exhibition followed. Nonetheless, Audette remained inexplicably obscure until 2003, when a major book, Yvonne Audette Paintings and Drawings 1949–2003 appeared. Since then, she has been described as Australia’s greatest living abstract painter. The National Gallery of Victoria held a retrospective of paintings she made while living in Florence and Milan, Yvonne Audette: Different Directions 1954–1966 in 2007–2008.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
The series 'David Moore: From Face to Face' was acquired as a gift of the artist and with financial assistance from Timothy Fairfax AC and L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2001
© Lisa, Michael, Matthew and Joshua Moore
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Tim Fairfax AC (54 portraits supported)
The Gordon Darling Foundation (36 portraits supported)
Drop into the Gallery this Spring for free creative activities inspired by our vibrant exhibition Joan Ross: Those trees came back to me in my dreams.
Do we have a treat for the smaller humans in your life! Little Faces is for babies and toddlers (with their grown up) to play, sing and have fun discovering a portrait together.
On one level The Companion talks about the most famous and frontline Australians, but on another it tells us about ourselves.
