BRONWYN BANCROFT (born 1958) Biography
ABORIGINAL SCHOOL (founded 1700)

Provenance

Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne

Exhibition History

Melbourne, The Women's Show, Vivien Anderson Gallery, March-April 2003

Description / Expertise

Bronwyn is very well known in Sydney and Brisbane although she has never really exhibited in Melbourne. A foundation artist at Boomali Aboriginal Artists Coop in Sydney, other foundation peers included internationally known artists such as Tracey Moffatt and Judy Watson.

This is from the last body of work and shows her great skill in design with a painterly edge. A very popular painting, last night I saw this body of work and felt it was beautiful. She is very hard working and a very ambitious Koori artist, or urban Aboriginal artist. Aside from the fact that is quite delicious acquiring it would make sense if you wanted to begin collecting urban koori art such as Trevor Nickolls, Gordon Bennett, Richard Bell, Ben Pushman and Chris Pease and Judy Watson. I think its a very exciting direction to take your collection, they all have something to say, sometimes its very gritty. Bronwyn and Judy Watson though make beautiful paintings. Most are very accessible $ wise as the collectors here get gun shy of the politics but its very relevant and very affordable with the exception of Gordon Bennet, who has won several major contemporary art prizes which has pushed his price into the tens of thousands. The surface is very much like watercolour and gouache on paper, thats because she has spent many years in textiles and really pushes the paint into the fabric/canvas. Its luminous and very Klimt inspired, whilst being original.

Collections containing Bronwyn Bancroft's works:
Center for the Study of Political Graphics, Santa Monica California, USA
New York Public Library Print Collection
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia
Newark Museum, Newark, America
Queensland Art Gallery
Prime Ministers Dept and Cabinet
The Kelton Foundation, USA
Art Gallery of New South Wales
National Museum of Australia, ACT
Australian Museum, NSW
National Gallery of Australia, ACT
Wollongong University, NSW
Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander Commission,ACT
The Governor of Tokyo, His Excellency Mr Suzuki
Volkerkunde Museum, Frankfurt Germany
Westpac, New York USA
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Artbank
Maritime Museum Sydney