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BIOGRAPHY
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1933 Born Newcastle, NSW, Australia (January 25)
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1956 B.A. Nursing, Sydney Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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1959-60 Resident, New York, NY, USA
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1961-68 Private Art Tuition, Sydney, with Dora Jarret, Rodney Milgate, Desiderius Orban
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1969 Brera Academy of Art, Milan, Italy
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1970 Morley College of Art, London, UK
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1974 Permanent Resident, USA (New York)
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1985 Artist-In-Residence for Space Shuttle "Discovery",
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1988. Flights 51C and STS26, for Experiments Concurrently in Orbit and on Land on "Aggregation of Red Cells (ARC)", by Leopold
Dintenfass, Ph.D. et al., NASA Laboratories, Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA
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1989 Died suddenly October 28 of a heart attack in her loft-studio at 427 Washington Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10013, USA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1972 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, Australia
Pater Gallery, Milan, Italy
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1974 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, Australia
Pater Gallery, Milan, Italy
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1978 “Black Paintings", Rawspace Gallery, Solo, New York City, NY, USA
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1980 Sır Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, Australia
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1982 22 Wooster Gallery (shared with Jim Adley), SoHo, New York, USA
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1984 Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Roslyn Oxley Gallery, Sydney, Australia
"Recent Black Paintings and Works on Paper," 22 Wooster Gallery (shared with Ian Smith), SoHo, New York, USA
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1985 Gallery Hirondelle, SoHo, New York, USA
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1986 Gallery Hirondelle, SoHo, New York, USA
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1987 Brownson Art Gallery Manhattanville College, Purchase, New York, USA
Holdsworth Contemporary Galleries, Sydney, Australia.
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Australia, Long Island
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1988 "Dark Night Paintings", Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, St. Boniface Chapel, New York, NY, USA
Holdsworth Contemporary Galleries, Sydney, Australia
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1989 Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada: "Paintings" (January) and "Paperworks" (October).
"Paperworks" (October) with Mon Levinson and Gayil Nalls, Fridholm Fine Arts Gallery, Asheville, North Carolina, USA
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1990 Memorial Exhibition Holdsworth Galleries, Sydney, NSW Australia, (shared with Clifton Pugh)
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1992 Second Memorial Exhibition Holdsworth Galleries, Sydney, NSW, Australia, July 4-22
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1998 Retrospective at Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA, USA
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2005 "New York Paintings and Works on Paper 1976-1989", Embassy of Australia, Washington, DC, USA. Also shown during 2006 at Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, NSW, Australia and Ipswich Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia
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2007 "Light to Dark: Paintings and Works on Paper", Queens College Art Center, Queens College/CUNY, Flushing, NY, USA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1963-73 Mixed exhibitions in Australia including von Bertouch Galleries, Newcastle and Holdsworth Galleries, Sydney, Australia
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1977 James Yu Gallery, SoHo, New York, NY, USA
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1979 "Power Gallery of Contemporary Art Acquisitions, 1978-1979", Sir Ivan D Dougherty Gallery, Sydney. Australia
Parsons-Dreyfus Gallery, Midtown, New York, NY, USA
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1980 "Contemporary Prints," Upstairs Gallery, Ithaca, NY, USA
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1981 "Power Gallery of Contemporary Art Acquisitions 1980-81," Power Gallery, Sydney University, Sydney, Australia
"Paper Works," Frank Marino Gallery, SoHo, New York, NY, USA
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1983 "Impulse to Paint", Power Gallery, Sydney University, Sydney, Australia
"Members' Show, 1983", (1st Prize for graphics), Summit Art Center, Summit, New Jersey, USA
"Power Gallery of Contemporary Art Acquisitions, 1982-83", Power Gallery, Sydney University, Sydney, Australia
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1984 "Juried Show, 1984", (Irving Sandler and Ned Rifkin-Judges), Summit Art Center, Summit, New Jersey, USA
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1985 "Juried Show, 1985," Summit Art Center, Summit, New Jersey, USA
"Members' Show, 1985," Summit Art Center, Summit, NJ, USA
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1986 "Spring Collection", 22 Wooster Gallery, SoHo, New York, NY, USA
"Members' Show, 1986", Summit Art Center, Summit, NJ, USA
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1987 "0.1 Percent New York", Museum of the City of Munich, Munich, Germany
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1988 "Australian Bicentenary (1788-1988) Art Exposition", Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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1989 Working Abstractly", Wilton Library Gallery, Wilton, Connecticut, USA, (Curated by Buzz McCall).
"Lines of Vision: Drawings by Contemporary Women. USA, Exhibition", Blum Helman Gallery, 80, Greene St., SoHo, NY, USA, Curated by Judy Collischan Van Wagner. Also shown during 1989-91 at Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY; Murray State U., Kentucky; Grand Rapids Art Museum., Michigan; U. Art Gallery, U. North Texas, Texas; Brush Gallery, St. Lawrence U., Canton, NY; U. Oklahoma, Museum of Art, Norman, Oklahoma, USA.
“Lines of Vision: Drawings by Contemporary Women. International Exhibition" in Spain, Portugal, Mexico, South America. Sponsored by the US Information Agency, Educational and Cultural Affairs, New York, NY, USA
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1990 “Works on Paper”, Christopher Leonard Gallery, SoHo, New York, NY, USA
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1992 Contemporary Australian Drawings", From the Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales Sydney, Australia.
"Mysterious Presence", Jan Weiss Gallery, Tribeca, New York, NY. USA, June 6 - July 18
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1993 "Summer Exhibitions", Jan Weiss Gallery, Tribeca, New York, NY
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1994. "Summer Exhibitions", Jan Weiss Gallery, Tribeca, New York, NY
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1994 "20th Century Art" New Parliament House, Canberra, ACT, Australia
"Contemporary Australian and International Art", National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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1995 Group show commemorating woman artists during the 25th Anniversary of the United Nations "Year of the Woman", Art Gallery
of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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1996-98 "Muhlenberg Masterpieces", Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College (with inclusion in catalog and CD-rom)
1995 "U.N. Year of the Woman Artist" Group Show, Eva Breuer Gallery, Woolwich, Sydney, NSW, Australia : Opening 8 May
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1999 "New Acquisitions: Building the Permanent Collection", Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA, USA
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2000 "Federation: Australian Art and Society 1901-2001", National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia. Sponsored by the National Council for the Centenary Foundation. Curated by John McDonald. M. Edwards work exhibited: NY 906 1988,
72 x 96 inches, mixed media on canvas, owned by NGA. Illustrated on page 45, in a section called “The Land,” with an essay entitled, “Fire is both a force or creation and destruction,” written by: Wally Caruana, Senior Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art; Annette Tapp, Exhibition Curator, Department of Australian Art; Wendy F. Carlson, Exhibition Curator.
Also toured 2001-2002: Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Vic.; Perce Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, Queensland; Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle, NSW; Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth, Western Australia;
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, Northern Territory; Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania.
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2023 "Collection Focus: Abstract Art by Women in the 1980s", Holmes à Court Gallery @ no.10, West Perth, WA, Australia
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2023 "Collection Focus: Abstract Art by Women in the 1980s", Holmes à Court Gallery at Vasse Felix, Cowaramup, WA, Australia
COLLECTIONS
UNITED STATES:
Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania
Best Collection, Richmond, Virginia
The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Susan Caldwell Collection, SoHo, New York, NY
Cathedral of St. John the Divine (Memorial to Margery Edwards), St. James Chapel,
New York, NY
The Collection of the Embassy of Australia, Washington, DC
Godwin-Ternbach Museum at Queens College/City University of New York, Flushing, NY
Honolulu Academy of the Arts; Honolulu, Hawaii
Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas at Austin, Texas ·
JB Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Frank Martin Art Gallery (Philip Johnson, architect), Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (20th Century Art & Print Collections)
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Sydney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, City University of New York, New York, NY
National Westminster Bank Collection, New York, NY
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase, New York
Queens College Art Center, Queens College/CUNY, Flushing, NY
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia
AUSTRALIA:
Art Bank, Sydney, NSW
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia
Bishopscourt Art Collection, Adelaide, SA
Broken Hill Proprietary Limited Collection, Newcastle, NSW
Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education, University of Southern Queensland,
Toowoomba, Queensland
Grafton Regional Art Gallery, Grafton, NSW
Robert and Janet Holmes à Court Collection, Perth, WA
Alexander Mackie College Collection, City Art. Institute, Sydney, NSW
Museum of Contemporary Art, including the Power Collection of
Contemporary Art of Sydney University, Sydney, NSW⠀⠀⠀
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria
New Parliament House Art Program, Canberra, ACT
Northern Territory Art Museum, Darwin, NT
Northern Territory University Art Collection, Casuarina, Darwin, NT
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland
St. John's Cathedral Collection, Brisbane, Queensland
St. Paul's College Collection, Sydney University, Sydney, NSW
St. Peter's Cathedral Collection, Adelaide, SA
St. Saviour's Cathedral Collection, Goulburn, NSW
Sydney University Art Collection, Sydney, NSW
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
Wollongong University Art Collection, Wollongong, NSW
Australian National Gallery Collection, Canberra, ACT
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland
CANADA:
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
ITALY:
Lorenzini Collection, Milan, Italy
ADDITIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
Campus Update, "Edwards Paintings Boost for Uni", Northern Territory News, p. 28, October 21, 1992.
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Carrick, John; Rumley, Katrina, "Works Purchased and Commissioned for Parliament House", Expressing Australia: Art Parliament House, Parliament House Construction Authority, Barton, Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia, 1988, p. 43.
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Collischan Van Wagner, Judy K. (Editor and Curator), “Lines of Vision: Drawings by Contemporary Women", Hudson Hills Press, Inc. New York, NY, pp. 14 & 50, 1989.
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Jarzombek, Nancy Allyn, "A Cascade of Gifts: New Acquisitions", At the Johnson, The Members' Newsletter of the Herbert Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, Fall/Winter 1992, pp. 1-3.
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Lynn, Elwyn, "From the Sublime to the Meticulous", The Weekend Australian Magazine, Arts, p. 12, September 17-18, 1988, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
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Lynn, Elwyn, "Margery Edwards, Holdsworth Contemporary Galleries", The Weekend Australian Magazine, Arts, p. 13, September 24-25, 1988: Sydney, NSW, Australia.
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Lynn, Elwyn, "Women Blow in a Wilful Wind", The Weekend Australian Magazine, Arts, p. 13, August 5-6, 1989: Sydney, NSW, Australia.
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Lynn, Elwyn, "Mood, Mass and Melancholy", The Weekend Australian Magazine, Arts, p. 10 November 11-12, 1989: Sydney, NSW, Australia.
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Lynn, Elwyn, "Reverence and the Funereal Sublime", The Weekend Australian Magazine, Arts, p. 10, July 21-22, 1990: Sydney, NSW, Australia (attachment).
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Metropolitan Museum of Art, Annual Report for the Year, 1991-92, p.55: New York, NY.
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Oberlaender, Michaela, "Gayil Nalls, Margery Edwards, Mon Levinson". Art Papers (Atlanta, Georgia) 14: 58-59, 1990.
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Watson, Bronwyn, "Rothko's Disciple of Power", Sydney Morning Herald, p. 14, September 30, 1988.
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Westfall, Stephen, "Margery Edwards: Recent Black Paintings, 1986-1988", Appreciation in catalog, Holdsworth Galleries, Sydney.
