Lesley dumbrell biography of barack

Australian artist

Lesley Dumbrell, born on 14 October 1941 in Melbourne, is an Australian artist known for her precise abstract geometric paintings,^[1][2][3] and was a pioneer of the Australian Women's Art Movement of the 1970s.^[4] She became known as 'one of the leading artists in Melbourne to adopt the international styles of colour field and hard-edged abstraction'.^[2] Dumbrell's first major retrospective was held at Art Gallery of New South Wales in 2024.^[5][6]

Education

Between 1958 and 1962 Dumbrell studied painting, printmaking and sculpture at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology^[7] and graduated with a Diploma of Art (Painting).

Between 1966 and 1968 she was a teacher at RMIT in the Art Department. In 1977 she was Artist in Residence at Monash University and from 1980-1985 was Part-time Lecturer (Painting) at the Victorian College of the Arts Melbourne.^[4