Carrick and Dangar

Join art historian, curator, broadcaster and international bestselling author Katy Hessel as she leads this audio tour through exhibitions Ethel Carrick and Anne Dangar.

Ethel Carrick and Anne Dangar bring together the work of two ground-breaking women artists who deserve to be better known. Working in parallel in the first decades of the twentieth century, both pushed against convention, made France their base and forged unique artistic paths. The outlooks of both artists were shaped by developments in French art, and they shared their experiences and new ideas with their Australian networks.

While Carrick worked primarily as a painter and Dangar as a potter, by presenting their work together, we can glean a greater sense of the diverse strands of artistic practice in the first half of the twentieth century. Both exhibitions are part of the National Gallery’s ongoing Know My Name initiative, which fosters awareness and understanding of the contributions of women artists in the broader stories of Australian and international art.