Janet Dawson

Janet Dawson is a celebrated Australian artist known for her pioneering work in abstraction and her later explorations of realism inspired by the natural world. Born in 1935, she gained prominence in the 1960s and was one of the few women featured in the National Gallery of Victoria's landmark exhibition, 'The Field.' Over her six-decade career, Dawson's versatility and refusal to conform to artistic norms have earned her a reputation as a maverick in the Australian art scene. At 90, she is currently receiving long-overdue recognition through a major retrospective at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.