The National Gallery of Australia in Canberra has unveiled its summer blockbuster exhibition. It's a double feature, which encourages visitors to explore the lives, work, and Australian and international legacies of two women artists Ethel Carrick and Anne Dangar.
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00:00Around 300 works tell the parallel stories of Anne Dangar and Ethel Carrick, two women
00:08artists who arguably deserve to be better known.
00:12Carrick is considered one of Australia's most established post-Impressionist artists.
00:17Her paintings were among the first post-Impressionist works exhibited in Australia, though her works
00:22often considered alongside or in the light of her husband, Australian artist Emanuel
00:27Phillips Fox.
00:28The curator of this retrospective says it's an opportunity to look at Carrick in her own
00:33right, with 140 works spanning five decades.
00:37I think like a lot of women, it wasn't that she wasn't known at the time, it's just the
00:41way that history's panned out, that her story deserves to be better known.
00:48Their ceramics, paintings, textiles and works on paper from Dangar, the first retrospective
00:54ever in the country of her birth, and comes more than 70 years after her death.
00:59Anne Dangar, she really is one of Australia's most important but under-acknowledged modern
01:04artists.
01:05Ethel Carrick Anne Dangar is a Know My Name project, a National Gallery of Australia initiative
01:10seeking to celebrate women artists.
01:13It's free and open at the NGA until April.