B. 1901 – 1989 

Marguerite Mahood was an Australian artist, writer, cartoonist, illustrator and ceramicist. She studied at the National Gallery School under Frederick McCubbin and William McInnes, first exhibiting her linocuts with the Victorian Artists Society in 1925. 

Parallel to career in the visual arts, she was one of the first women in Australia to broadcast her own radio program. In 1929 she persuaded radio station 3LO to have her host a show on interior decoration and during the same period, cultivated an ability to create intricate poetry. Core to her pottery practice was a desire to create objects not fit for mechanical reproduction, mugs and jugs remarkable in their vibrancy and decoration. 

In the later stages of her career, Mahood opened a screenprinting studio, wrote children’s books and completed a PhD on political caricature at the University of Melbourne. She was an incredibly productive artist and advocate for the arts, a key figure in the modernist arts movement in Australia. Her work is now held in regional, state, national and international collections. 

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