Barbara Hanrahan
Barbara Hanrahan
Jolly Red Bus, 1982
Barbara Hanrahan (1939-1991)
colour screenprint 1/30
40 x 30 cm (image size)
titled, editioned, signed, and dated below image
Related work: And upstairs in the jolly red bus, drawing, National Gallery of Australia Accession Number: 93.299AB.
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Barbara Hanrahan explored female archetypes of womanhood in her work: mother, daughter, virgin and object of desire. Her work is characterised by playfully complex narratives that draw on both personal experience and fantasy.
Barbara Hanrahan was born in Adelaide. She studied at the Adelaide Teachers College and enrolled in evening classes in printmaking with German émigré artists Udo Sellbach and Karin Schepers at the South Australian School of Art. In 1963 Hanrahan moved to London, continuing her studies at the Central School of Art, and from this time lived mostly in England, returning periodically to Australia, until moving permanently back to Adelaide in the early 1980s. Upon her return Hanrahan became a member of the Australian Women’s Art Movement and the Australian Women's Art Register.
She had successful solo exhibitions of her prints in Australia at the Kim Bonython Gallery in Adelaide and Sydney.
Her works are held by the Australian National Gallery, Canberra, (453), The Art Gallery of South Australia (holds over 200 of her prints), QAGOMA, Art Gallery of New South Wales, The National Gallery of Victoria and many regional galleries.