AW Art Appreciation - October

Margaret Preston Art exhibition

The art of Margaret Pan art, the Arts and craft movement, and japanreston  has shaped the  cultural and aesthetic landscape of Australia. Born in Adelaide in 1875, Preston (nee McPherson) studied in Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne, before travelling  extensively across England and Europe. Participating in the growing discousces surroundnin modernism, Preston began to merge a variety of influences, such as Post impressinsm, primitvism in Europe, the Arts and Craft movement  and Japanese uklyo-e.