Julian Smith
Julian Smith
In between rides, c. 1962
Julian Smith (Pamala Sargood) (born 1937)
oil on board
15 x 10.5 cm, frame: 27 x 23.5 cm
signed lower left, Julian Smith
inscribed verso P. Smith
$400 reserved
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Julian Smith (married name: Pamela Sargood) was born in Melbourne. She studied art at East Sydney Technical College and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and then travelled extensively in the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States in 1958-59.
Smith was included in the first “New Talent” exhibition at The Leveson Street Gallery, Melbourne in 1962. For the next 23 years she had numerous solo exhibitions at Leveson Street Gallery and was included in major group shows. One show, Homage to the Horse 28th Oct – 9th Nov 1962, celebrated The Melbourne Horse racing carnival included five works by Smith. In 1966, Smith won the Bendigo Prize for watercolour with her work River Skyline.
In later years Julian concentrated on animal drawings, and went to South Africa and Kenya in 1978, and returned to Kenya in 1980 gathering material for this specialized field.
Her work is represented in the Art Gallery of Bendigo.