B. 1891 – 1973

A respected artist, printmaker and art teacher, Adelaide Perry studied at the National Gallery School. In 1921, she was awarded the National Gallery of Victoria Travelling Scholarship and spent four years in London at the Royal Academy. In 1930, she established the Adelaide Perry School of Drawing and Painting in Sydney while working part time at Presbyterian Ladies’ College, Croydon. 

Alongside her contemporaries Margaret Preston, Thea Proctor and Ethel Spowers, Perry is credited with promoting the medium of printmaking. Her work is represented across public collections, a key entry in the emergence of printmaking in Australian modernism. In 1995, there was an extensive survey of her work held at the Drill Hall Gallery at the Australian National University. 

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