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Badge - Heidelberg District Artists' Society, Helen Ilich, 1960s-1970s
Reg. No: HT 23939
- Summary:
- Heidelberg District Artists' Society membership badge name bar. Belonged to post-war Serbian migrant Helen Ilich who was a member during the late 1960s and 1970s.
Helen migrated to Melbourne from Croatia in 1953 with her two children, her husband already having arrived. She had always wanted to be an artist but rarely had the opportunity or parental support to pursue her passion. This continued in Australia but she found a degree of artistic outlet by working in three ceramic studios around Melbourne - Ellis, Isobel (a small independent business) and Guy Boyd's studio which she particularly enjoyed. At the Boyd studio she painted this vase and other ceramic pieces with Australian landscape and Aboriginal motifs, produced for the domestic and tourist markets. Helen joined the Heidelberg District Artists' Society in the late 1960s and taught painting at home, producing many works of her own. - Description:
- Metal badge, a rectangular bar with pin on reverse side.
- Acquisition Information:
- Donation from Mrs Nina Chelleri, 2009
| Discipline: | History |
| Dimensions: | 10 mm (Height), 40 mm (Width) |
More information
| Tagged with: | artistic practices, immigration, societies |
| Themes this item is part of: | Domestic & Community Life Collection, Migration Collection, Immigration & Artistic Practice Collection, Helen Ilich, Serbian Migrant & Ceramic Artist, 1953, Helen Ilich, Serbian Migrant & Ceramic Artist, 1953 |
| Primary Classification: | CULTURAL IDENTITY |
| Secondary Classification: | Ethnicity - Creative Practice |
| Tertiary Classification: | artist socieities |
| Inscriptions: | Helen Ilich |
| Organisation Named: | Heidelberg District Artists Society, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia, 1964 or later |
| Past Owner: | Helen Ilich, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia, 1965-1996 |
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