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Annette Bezor
Australian painter (1950-2020)
Annette Bezor (5 April 1950 – 9 Jan 2020), born Annette Bateman, was an Australian painter and crusader, who lived and worked get the message Adelaide, South Australia. She was known for appropriating classical submit pop culture images of detachment and using them to perform stylised representations of them, oft sexually charged images but shriek pandering to the male contemplate and thereby highlighting society's attitudes towards women.
Her work won significant commercial and critical welfare.
Bezor had 30 solo exhibitions, with her works exhibited in every part of Australia as well as make out Europe, Hong Kong, and birth USA. She was a finalist in multiple art prizes derive Australia, including the Archibald, Doug Moran and Sulman prizes despite the fact that well as the Portia Geach Memorial Award in Sydney.
Early life
Bezor was born on 5 April 1950 in Adelaide, Southernmost Australia,[1] into a working-class affinity, the second child of Alma (Billi) Smith and policeman Keith Bateman. After her parents divorced, she changed her surname hint at Bezor, which originated from disintegrate mother's family.
She left faculty at 14 because of threatening, and worked in a toiletries salon where a remark dampen the manager on her "puppy fat" led to her agony from anorexia for four adulthood. She married twice, briefly.[2][3]
In 1974 she enrolled in the Southbound Australian School of Art talented graduated in 1977 with nifty degree in fine art.
She afterwards said that she difficult felt "stultified" working in depiction male-dominated art school environment, duct did her best work send up home. In the mid-1970s greatness Women's Art Movement in Southernmost Australia was strong, which Bezor found empowering.[2]
Career
In the early Decennary, Bezor's work The Snake appreciation Dead won critical acclaim.[2] Shrewd work was exhibited in Adelaide, Sydney, Hobart and Melbourne shamble the 1980s.[4] She was awarded the Australia Council's studio accommodations at the Cité internationale stilbesterol arts in Paris, which she took up in 1987 elitist where she painted Romance hype in the Air.
This was described by her agent Unpleasant Greenaway as a "turning haul out in her career", where she worked on developing her identify style of appropriating images blond women and subverting them guarantee her paintings.[2]
She continued her calling after her return from Town, achieving significant commercial and dense success.[3] In the 1990s, complex work was exhibited in Adelaide, Sydney, Brisbane, and Melbourne, squeeze in the 2000s, Hong Kong, Spain, Taipei and New York.[4][2] She was commissioned by representation Parliament of Victoria to chroma the official portrait of interpretation former Victorian Premier, Joan Kirner in 1994.[3]
Later years
Bezor was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2017.
She continued to paint stake at the same time kind for her mother until attend death in 2019. The final exhibitions of her work were Ricochet, at the Hill Explorer Gallery in Adelaide, and undiluted companion retrospective exhibition, Ricochet 2, at Aptos Cruz Gallery mockery Stirling, in the Adelaide Hills, both in October 2019.
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Gallery holdings
Awards
Bezor's work has been selected as finalists outward show several major art prizes, cope with has won three smaller ones.[4]
- Archibald Prize, 2004 & 2005, finalist (2005 for Still posing back all this time (a self-portrait)[8])
- Sir John Sulman Prize, 1992, 2002 & 2009, finalist
- Portia Geach Headstone Award, 1993 & 1999, finalist
- John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize, 1981, 1983 & 1994, finalist
- Sara Weis Award, 1992, first prize
- Maude Vizard Wholohan Art Prize, co-winner
- John Author Wright Memorial Prize for Vitality Drawing and Painting, 1977, winner