Sue Buckley
(Australia 1911–22 Mar 1986)
- Title
- Soldier ants
- Year
- 1961
- Media category
- Materials used
- woodcut, printed in black ink on white laid rice paper
- Edition
- A/P V
- Dimensions
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48.6 x 33.5cm blockmark; 56.8 x 44.2cm sheet
- Signature & date
- Signed and dated l.r., pencil "Sue Buckley - 61".
- Credit
- Gift of Jean Hanrahan, the artist's sister 2003
- Accession number
- 25.2003
- Copyright
- © The family of the late Sue Buckley
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
Sue Buckley was born in Perth and died in Sydney in 1986. She studied in Sydney with Desiderius Orban and exhibited her work from the 1940s. In 1956 she produced her first woodcuts and linocuts. She was also one of the earliest teachers of lithography in Sydney. She had a central role in establishing the Workshop Arts Centre, Willoughby, the foremost centre for printmaking in Sydney in the 1950s and 60s where she also taught, and was a founding member of the Sydney Printmakers group.
© Australian Art Department, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2003
- Bibliography (1)
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Anne Ryan (Australia) (Curator), Sydney prints: 45 years of the Sydney Printmakers, Sydney, 2006. List of works.
- Exhibition history (3)
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Sydney Prints: 45 years of the Sydney Printmakers, S.H. Ervin Gallery, 19 Aug 2006–24 Sep 2006.
Sydney Prints: 45 years of the Sydney Printmakers, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, 09 Feb 2007–11 Mar 2007.
Sydney Prints: 45 years of the Sydney Printmakers, Tamworth City Gallery, 24 Mar 2007–29 Apr 2007.
