Cruthers Collection of Women's Art

Cruthers Collection of Women's Art is a collection of more than 700 artworks by Australian women, held at the University of Western Australia. It is the only public collection focused on women's art in Australia.

The Cruthers Collection was founded in 2007^[1] following the donation by Sir James and Lady Sheila Cruthers of some 400 artworks and is named in recognition of their gift.^[1][2]

The collection includes artworks by Australian women artists from the 1890s to the present day, with Australian modernism, feminist and contemporary art being represented. There is a focus on "the artist and her work", where a portrait or self-portrait of an artist is supported by a non-portrait example of their work.^[3]

As of May 2019 there were 700 works in the collection.^[4]

Exhibitions

• The Artist and her Work, selected artworks from the Cruthers Collection displayed at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia, 2019^[4]
• Artemis: No Second Thoughts: Reflections on the Artemis Women's Art Forum^[5][6][7]
• Country and colony^[8]
• Into the Light: The Cruthers Collection of Women's Art, also known as Look. Look again, exhibition and publication, 2012^[9]

References

1. Weston, Gemma (1 December 2017). "Gender equality in the museum: The Cruthers Collection of Women's Art". Artlink Magazine. Archived from the original on 30 March 2018. Retrieved 26 September 2021.
2. Miller, Sarah; Cruthers Family; PICA; Festival of Perth (1995) (1995), In The Company of Women: 100 years of Australian women's art from the Cruthers Collection, Perth Institute for Contemporary Arts, ISBN 978-1-875386-24-6{{citation}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
3. The University of Western Australia. "University Policy on Art Acquisition for the Cruthers Collection of Women's Art at the University of Western Australia". www.governance.uwa.edu.au. Archived from the original on 17 March 2015. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
4. Price, Jenna (24 May 2019). "The art world angel, her son, the countess and the detective". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
5. Weston, Gemma, ed. (2018), Remembering ARTEMIS : a Western Australian Women's Art Forum, UWA Publishing, ISBN 978-1-76080-015-4
6. Weston, Gemma (2018), ARTEMIS: No second thoughts: Reflections on the Artemis Women's Art Forum: A project by the Cruthers Collection of Women's Art, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, 1 September – 8 December 2018, Cruthers Collection of Women's Art at the University of Western Australia, ISBN 978-1-925793-02-4
7. Catalogue summary provide some background on the Artemis group – Artemis Women's Art Forum collection of photographs, 1978, retrieved 13 February 2020
8. Weston, Gemma (2017), Country & colony: Visions of Australia from the Cruthers Collection of Women's Art, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, ISBN 978-1-876793-92-0
9. Cruthers, John; Kinsella, Lee, eds. (2012), Into the light: The Cruthers Collection of Women's Art, UWA Publishing, ISBN 978-1-74258-485-0

External links

• Official website
• List of works held, as at September 2018