Margaret Cilento

Australian artist (1923–2017)

Raphael Cilento (father)
Phyllis Cilento (mother)

RelativesDiane Cilento (sister)

Phyllis Margaret Cilento (23 December 1923 – 21 November 2006) was an Australian painter and printmaker.^[1]

Biography

Cilento was born in Sydney, Australia on 23 December 1923.^[2] She studied at East Sydney Technical College. In 1947, Cilento went to New York on a Travelling Scholarship. There she studied at the abstract expressionist Subjects of the Artist School.^[3] She also studied at the Atelier 17 printmaking studio, and at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.^[4]

In 1949, Cilento moved to Europe to study engraving at the École des Beaux-Arts, and to work at the reopened Paris branch of Atelier 17, returning to Australia in 1951. She moved to London in 1954, where she studied at the Central School of Art at Goldsmith’s College. In 1963, she married Australian journalist Geoff Maslen and the couple moved to Australia.^[4]^[3] Cilento died in Melbourne, Australia on 21 November 2006.^[2]

Cilento's work is in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria^[5] and the National Gallery of Australia.^[6] Cilento was included in the 2007 exhibition Breaking New Ground: Brisbane Women Artists of the Mid-Twentieth Century held at the Queensland University of Technology. Also included in the show were Pamela MacFarlane, Margaret Olley, Joy Roggenkamp, Betty Quelhurst, and Kathleen Shillam.^[7]

References

^ "Margaret Cilento". Design & Art Australia Online. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
^ ^a ^b "Margaret Cilento Biography". Annex Galleries Fine Prints. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
^ ^a ^b "She celebrated the human spirit". The Sydney Morning Herald. 1 December 2006. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
^ ^a ^b Weyl, Christina (25 June 2019). "Margaret Cilento". The Women of Atelier 17: The Biographical Supplement. Christina Weyl, New York. ISBN 9780578534336. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
^ "Margaret Cilento | Artists | NGV". National Gallery of Victoria. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
^ "Margaret Cilento". National Gallery of Australia. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
^ "Margaret Olley works on exhibition at QUT Art Museum". Queensland University of Technology (QUT). Retrieved 4 June 2020.