Mirka Mora interviewed by Sheridan Palmer in the Australian art from 1950 to the present oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 5812957
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Mora, Mirka, 1928-2018, interviewee
- Online Access:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 2012 Feb. 8
- 1 sound file (ca. 72 min.)
- Series:
- Australian art from 1950 to the present oral history project.
- Technical Details:
- Mode of access: Online.
- Summary:
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Mirka Mora speaks about art as an oracle; Mirka's studio; her impressions of Melbourne in 1951; her journey from Paris; Roy and Betty Grounds; mothering; buying a house in McKinnon; her husband Georges; finding a studio; her friendship with John and Sunday Reed; Mirka's Cafe; The Balzac restaurant; The Contemporary Arts Society; the difficulty in raising money for the Museum of Modern Art and Heide; the effect of Europeans on Melbourne culture; the Moras' friendship with Dr Evatt; Mirka's meeting with an old Aboriginal man; Australia's good light for painting; Melbourne society and open marriages; the friendship, influence and patronage of the Wynn family; Hermia Boyd as a costume designer; male chauvinism; women in the arts; her friendship with John Brack; teaching painting at the Gallery School; Georges Mora's friendship with Robert Hughes; the Whitechapel Gallery Exhibition in London, the Antipodeans at the Victorian Artists Society in 1959; David Boyd; visiting Merric and Doris Boyd at Murrumbeena and the pottery shop; her friendship with Joy Hester and Donald Friend.
- Notes:
- Recorded on 8 February 2012 in Richmond, Vic.
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (3 p.) and corrected transcript (typescript, 61 leaves)
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Artists
- Other authors/contributors:
- Palmer, Sheridan, interviewer
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Australian art from 1950 to the present oral history project.
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- Until 2082 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 2012
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