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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00:00A pioneering artist finally granted the gallery space many have long argued she deserves.
00:09I think like a lot of women, it wasn't that she wasn't known at the time, it's just the
00:13way that history's panned out, that her story deserves to be better known.
00:20The first half of the National Gallery's new exhibition spans Ethel Carrick's remarkable
00:2450-year career.
00:26140 works demonstrate why she's considered one of Australia's most established post-Impressionist
00:33artists, while creating an opportunity to examine Carrick in her own right, apart from
00:39her husband, Australian artist Emmanuel Phillips Fox.
00:43Carrick was quite independent-minded.
00:46Although she signed a lot of her works Carrick Fox, she chose to exhibit under her maiden
00:51name, Carrick.
00:53And Dangar is also celebrated by art historians, curators and some collectors, while remaining
00:58at the periphery of Australian art history.
01:01The NGA exhibition is the first retrospective of Dangar ever in the country of her birth,
01:07and comes more than 70 years after her death.
01:10She really is one of Australia's most important but under-acknowledged modern artists.
01:15Ethel Carrick and Dangar is a Know My Name project, a National Gallery of Australia initiative
01:20seeking to celebrate women artists and promote greater awareness of their legacy nationally
01:26and internationally.
01:27This is a free exhibition and open until April next year.