Adelaide Perry was an influential Australian artist, printmaker and respected art teacher.
19 Facts About Adelaide Perry
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Adelaide Perry's parents were Richard Hall Perry, solicitor, and Eliza Elizabeth.
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Adelaide Perry returned to Melbourne in 1914 to attend the National Gallery of Victoria Art School where she was a student of Bernard Hall and Frederick McCubbin.
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In 1921, Adelaide Perry was awarded the National Gallery of Victoria Travelling Scholarship and spent four years in London at the Royal Academy.
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Adelaide Perry exhibited in Paris at the Salon des Artistes Francais, returning to Australia in 1925.
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Adelaide Perry started using the recently invented linoleum to create relief prints in the mid-1920s.
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Adelaide Perry was enthusiastic about the medium and used it in her work and taught classes.
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Adelaide Perry was attracted by the distinctive black lines and simplified forms which appealed to her interest in modernism.
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Adelaide Perry used the method in her many depictions of the coastal environment and the harbour.
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Adelaide Perry was teaching part-time at the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Croydon after being recommended by Roy de Maitre and was exhibiting at the Macquarie Galleries.
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In 1934 Adelaide Perry exhibited "portraits of quality" alongside leading women artists of the decade in an exhibition of the Melbourne Society of Women Painters.
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In 1936 Adelaide Perry acquired the lease to a penthouse in Lower Pitt Street, Sydney and stylishly converted the space into a teaching studio as well as her own accommodation.
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In 1937 Adelaide Perry became a foundation member of, and exhibited with, Robert Menzies' anti-modernist organisation, the Australian Academy of Art.
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Adelaide Perry commented on the changing face of Australian art mentioning young artists who had returned from overseas such as Jean Bellette, as well as established artists in Australia such as W A Dargie, Margaret Preston, Eric Wilson, and Roy de Maistre.
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In 1944, Adelaide Perry she showed her drawings at the Macquarie Galleries alongside Thea Proctor, Daryl Lindsay, Arthur Murch, James Cook and Douglas Dundas.
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Adelaide Perry continued to participate in the conservative Society of Artists annual exhibitions.
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However, there were more established artists such as Arthur Murch, Lloyd Rees, Margaret Preston, Roy Wakelin and Adelaide Perry who "had come up with quiet, sober and considered work that still had punch in it".
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From this time there is little evidence that Adelaide Perry created much in the way of new work.
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Grishin sums up Adelaide Perry as having had "a significant impact on the Sydney art scene".