Janet Dawson

Visual Artist

1935 –

22

Who is Janet Dawson?

Janet Dawson is an Australian artist who won the Archibald Prize in 1973 with a portrait of Michael Boddy.

She studied at the Gallery School in Melbourne from 1952 to 1956. She was then awarded a Travelling Scholarship to London and went with another scholarship to Italy, later to Paris, returning to Australia in 1961. She exhibited at an exhibition of contemporary Australian painting in Los Angeles and San Francisco in 1966.

She moved to Binalong in 1974.

She received an Australia Council for the Arts grant in 1985.

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Born
1935
Sydney

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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