More than 250 Geelong Gallery members, artists and community leaders joined Geelong Gallery president Eliza Holt and Director & CEO Jason Smith for the opening of the summer suite of exhibitions on Friday 11 November.
The focus of the evening was Geelong Gallery exhibition Mandy Martin-A Persistent Vision. Guests heard from Anne Virgo OAM, CEO and artistic director Australian Print Workshop who discussed the career of Mandy Martin (1952-2021), who was a critically acclaimed Australian artist with a career spanning 45 years.
Martin was a feminist artist who emerged and rose to prominence in the mid-1970s. The exhibition includes iconic industrial and landscape subjects and has been programmed to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the artist’s birth.
