Normana Wight

Normana Wight
Born1936
EducationRoyal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Central School of Arts and Crafts
Known forPainting, Printmaking
MovementAbstract art

Normana Wight (born 1936 in Melbourne) is an Australian artist, best known as a painter and printmaker.

Early life and education

Wight studied painting at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (1954–57) and after a short time as a fabric designer and high school art teacher, later studied printmaking at Central School of Arts and Crafts, London (1962–63).[1] Upon returning to Australia in 1964 she moved to Sydney, then Mittagong, New South Wales. She returned to Melbourne in 1967 to teach at the Preston Institute of Technology.[2]

Career

Wight's initial work focused on abstract forms in fields of bright colour.

In 1967, Wight's work came to the attention of Brian Finemore and John Stringer, co-curators of the seminal exhibition The Field at the National Gallery of Victoria in 1968.[3] Wight is one of only three women artists to have work included in The Field, the others being Janet Dawson and Wendy Paramor. Wight was represented by a large painting in two parts hung vertically, 'Untitled' 1968 (cat. no. 74).[4] She later had to destroy the work as it was too large and awkward to store.[5] Wight's minimal abstraction was then largely forgotten for three decades until gallerist David Pestorius shone a light on it in the exhibitions Queensland Art 2009 and Normana Wight: Minimal Painting at his Brisbane gallery in 2009 and 2010 respectively.[6] In 2017, Wight remade her work for The Field for the National Gallery of Victoria's exhibition 'The Field Revisited' 2018, and the remade work was acquired by the Gallery.[7]

In the early 1970s, Wight shifted focus from and began using photographic sources for her works.[8] Whilst she had produced prints in conjunction with her abstract paintings in her earlier works, printmaking soon became her primary medium, and through her production of postcards and books she sought to challenge ideas of commodification and elitism.[8]

Between 1981 and 1986, Wight was printmaking lecturer at the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba.[9]

Wight later became interested in computer-generated imagery. In 2000, she collaborated with the Victorian Tapestry Workshop on their first portrait commission, a portrait of Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, AC, DBE for the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra. The image was composed by painter Christopher Pyett, adapted on computer by Wight and woven by Merrill Dumbrell.[10]

Wight has lived and worked in Brisbane since 2001, and is represented by Grahame Galleries + Editions, Brisbane.[9]

In 2014 Normana Wight was interviewed in a digital story and oral history for the State Library of Queensland's James C Sourris AM Collection.[11] In the interview Wight talks to Brisbane gallery owner, Noreen Grahame about her art, her artistic career, the influence computer technology has had on her art and her future aspirations.[12]

Work

Solo exhibitions

  • Normana Wight: Minimal Painting, Pestorius Sweeney House, Brisbane, 2010[6]
  • Posted, grahame galleries + editions, Brisbane, 2009
  • Pursuing the Still Life, grahame galleries + editions, Brisbane, 2003
  • Small Ceremonies: Normana Wight, Lismore Regional Art Gallery, Lismore, 2000[13]
  • Extracts from a Still Life, grahame galleries + editions, Brisbane, 1999
  • Recent Work - collage and laser prints, grahame galleries + editions, Brisbane, 1994
  • Work-in-progress: the balancing act, Queensland College of Art Gallery, Griffith University, 1993.[14]
  • Normana Wight: recent work, Grahame Galleries, 1990[15]

Group exhibitions

  • New Woman, Museum of Brisbane, 2019-2020[16]
  • The Field Revisited, National Gallery of Victoria, 2018[5]
  • Abstraction: celebrating Australian women artists, National Gallery of Australia, touring exhibition, 2017[17]
  • Queensland Art 2009, Pestorius Sweeney House, Brisbane, 2009-2010[6]
  • Freemantle Print Award exhibition, Freemantle, WA, 1994
  • Artist books exhibition, Grahame Galleries, 1991[18]
  • Shifting Parameters, Queensland Art Gallery, 1990[8]
  • The Field, National Gallery of Victoria, 1968[19]

Public collections

Awards and nominations

  • Acquisition - Diamond Valley Art Award, 1983
  • Acquisition - Gold Coast City Art Prize, 1983
  • Acquisition - Aberdare Art Prize Allied Queensland Coalfields, 1990
  • Artist residency - Peacock Printmakers, Aberdeen, 1986-7
  • Visiting Fellow - Queensland College of Art, Brisbane, 1993
  • Artist residency - Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne, 2001

References

  1. ^ "Study for 'Untitled', (1968) by Normana Wight :: The Collection :: Art Gallery NSW". artgallery.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
  2. ^ "Eric Riddler, Joanna Mendelssohn and ecwubben, date created Jan. 1, 1999, last updated June 2, 2015, 'Wight, Normana'. Publisher: Design & Art Australia Online, date accessed 2019-03-09, daao.org.au, CC-BY-NC-SA". Design and Art Australia Online.
  3. ^ "Normana Wight::biography at::Design and Art Australia online". daao.org.au. Design & Art Australia Online. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
  4. ^ National Gallery of Victoria (1968), The field : exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria, August 21-September 28, 1968, National Gallery of Victoria, retrieved 12 March 2019
  5. ^ a b Rozentals, Beckett; National Gallery of Victoria, (issuing body.) (2018), The field revisited, National Gallery of Victoria, ISBN 978-1-925432-48-0
  6. ^ a b c "David Pestorius Projects - Archive". Retrieved 29 June 2020.
  7. ^ "Collection entry for 'Untitled' 1968, remade 2017".
  8. ^ a b c Kirker, Anne; Gallery, Queensland Art (1990). Shifting parameters. South Brisbane : Queensland Art Gallery.
  9. ^ a b "normana wight about artist | Grahame Galleries". Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  10. ^ "Dame Elisabeth Murdoch". Portrait magazine. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  11. ^ "James C Sourris AM Collection". State Library of Queensland.
  12. ^ "Normana Wight digital story, educational interview and oral history". State Library of Queensland. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
  13. ^ Wight, Normana; Burnett, David (2000). Small ceremonies : Normana Wight 22 March - 23 April 2000. Lismore Regional Art Gallery.
  14. ^ Wight, Normana (1993). Work-in-progress : the balancing act. Morningside, Qld.: Queensland College of Art Gallery. ISBN 0-947317-25-2. OCLC 38336696.
  15. ^ Normana Wight : recent work, Grahame Galleries, 1990, retrieved 12 March 2019
  16. ^ Museum of Brisbane; Miranda Hine; Louise Martin-Chew; Renai Grace. New Woman : a century of women in brisbane art (1st ed.). Brisbane, QLD. ISBN 978-0-6485617-0-5. OCLC 1107441310.
  17. ^ Nichols, Lara; Nicholls, Lara, (curator.,); National Gallery of Australia (issuing body.) (2017), Abstraction : Celebrating Australian women abstract artists, Canberra (A.C.T.) National Gallery of Australia, retrieved 12 March 2019{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  18. ^ Artists' books exhibition 16 October - 9 November 1991. Grahame Galleries. Brisbane: Grahame Galleries and Editions. 1991. ISBN 0-646-06294-8. OCLC 27539014.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  19. ^ Victoria, National Gallery of (1968). The field : exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria, August 21-September 28, 1968. Melb : National Gallery of Victoria.

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