Lesley dumbrell biography
Lesley dumbrell biography husband!
Lesley dumbrell biography
Lesley Dumbrell
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