Angela Goddard on Estelle Creed

In this episode of NGA Art Talks, Angela Goddard, writer, curator and Director of the Griffith University Art Museum, discusses the forgotten modern artist, Estelle 'Stella' Creed.

Born in Gaba Gaba/Rockhampton in 1904, Estelle Creed left central Queensland for Gadigal Nura/Sydney, then to Paris and rural France to follow her ambitions to explore and learn from cutting edge artists. As a student of Anne Dangar, André Lhote and Albert Gleizes, Creed found herself immersed in a world that challenged artistic norms, fostering a bold and experimental approach to her work.

In this talk, recorded in front of a live audience as part of the National Gallery’s Friday Art Talks program, Goddard shares how her research led her to unearthing Creed’s archive of surviving works and letters, and how expatriate Australian artists, especially women, were taught and influenced by modern artists in Europe in the late 1920s.

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