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Introduction

Mary's house

A great body of work

Circa 1912

Costume exhibition

Born in 1912

Things related to 1912

Matisse and the expressionists

The way things work

Your antenna must be out

Development of collage

Mary's family

Encouraged to become an artist

Mary's grandparents

An early drawing

The Melbourne Zoo

A love of minimal line and abstraction

Starting art school

Art school instead of the intermediate certificate

Saturday morning classes

Inventing own way of painting

Commercial art diploma course

Engaged at 17

St Kilda, Outer Hebrides

Children

Taught herself watercolours

The science museum as chid care

Into the slums to draw houses

The Victorian Artists' Society, first one woman show

Precarious life

George Bell as teacher

Time for art almost impossible

Starting lithography

A sort of nervous breakdown

Going to RMIT

Encouragement from teacher

RMIT opens up

Lithography done at home

Ability to draw animals

Drawing the eagle

Eagle not a feminine animal

The first animal lithograph, a giraffe

Death of her husband

Travelling

Discovering oriental paper

Chiang Mai paper

Nepalese paper

Creases, folds and holes

Going mad

Self portraits

Drawing from the subconscious

Collage from the bible

Thailand

Thai paper

Bushfires

Bits of paper, odds and ends

Arrange and fix or happen

Inspired by mud brick

Inland Australia

The Red Heart

A mouth shape, open lips

A quietness

The Ash Wednesday bushfires

The Air Graphics series

The Melbourne tapestries

More tapestry commissions

Most valued award

Achievement later in life

Mary's death

Credits