Barbara Nancy Brash b. 1925

Also known as Barbara Brash
  • Designer (Theatre / Film Designer),
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Painter)
Twentieth-century Melbourne artist who has worked mostly in printmaking. The National Gallery of Australia holds over 70 of Brash's works including the c.1948 print 'Beach Box'.
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Painter, printmaker and theatre set designer, was born in Melbourne on 3 November 1925. She worked in Melbourne and produced etchings, linocuts, lithographs, screenprints and woodcuts. The NGA has 74 prints dating from c.1948 ( Beach Box ) to 1991 (the computer-generated Still Life with Fruit ) – though most are of the 1960s, including the abstract colour screenprint, Portrait Group 1965. See also Eveline Syme .

Brash produced early figurative prints which became more abstract.

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Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
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2007

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