Annette Bezor

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Annette Bezor
Born5 April 1950 (1950-04-05)
Doug Moran Portrait Prize, Sir John Sulman Prize
Websitebezor.com.au

Annette Bezor (5 April 1950 – 9 January 2020), born Annette Bateman, was an Australian painter and

pop culture images of women and using them to create stylised representations of them, often sexually charged images but not pandering to the male gaze
and thereby highlighting society's attitudes towards women. Her work won significant commercial and critical success.

Bezor had 30 solo exhibitions, with her works exhibited throughout Australia as well as in Europe, Hong Kong, and the USA. She was a finalist in multiple art prizes in Australia, including the

Doug Moran and Sulman prizes as well as the Portia Geach Memorial Award
in Sydney.

Early life

Bezor was born on 5 April 1950 in Adelaide,

anorexia for four years. She married twice, briefly.[2][3]

In 1974 she enrolled in the

South Australian School of Art and graduated in 1977 with a degree in fine art. She afterwards said that she had felt "stultified" working in the male-dominated art school environment, and did her best work at home. In the mid-1970s the Women's Art Movement in South Australia was strong, which Bezor found empowering.[2]

Career

In the early 1980s, Bezor's work The Snake is Dead won critical acclaim.

Australia Council's studio residency at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris, which she took up in 1987 and where she painted Romance is in the Air. This was described by her agent Paul Greenaway as a "turning point in her career", where she worked on developing her signature style of appropriating images of women and subverting them in her paintings.[2]

She continued her career after her return from Paris, achieving significant commercial and critical success.

Victorian Premier, Joan Kirner in 1994.[3]

Later years

Bezor was diagnosed with

retrospective exhibition, Ricochet 2, at Aptos Cruz Gallery at Stirling, in the Adelaide Hills
, both in October 2019.

Bezor died at the Mary Potter Hospice at the Calvary North Adelaide Hospital on 9 January 2020.

Gallery holdings

Awards

Bezor's work has been selected as finalists in several major art prizes, and has won three smaller ones.[4]

Fellowships

  • 2010
    Arts SA
    Fellowship
  • 1990
    Australia Council
    Fellowship

References

  1. ^ "Annette Bezor". National Gallery of Victoria: Collection Online. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d e Lawson, Valerie (2 February 2020). "Painter probed the dark side of beauty and celebrity". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  3. ^ a b c "Annette Bezor". Design & Art Australia Online. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  4. ^ a b c "Annette Bezor". Annette Bezor. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  5. ^ Keen, Suzie (5 February 2020). "Vale Annette Bezor: an exceptional painter and 'true bohemian'". InDaily. Retrieved 3 April 2020.
  6. ^ Bezor, Annette. "Works by Annette Bezor". Art Gallery NSW. Retrieved 3 April 2020.
  7. ^ "Annette Bezor". National Gallery of Victoria: Collection Online. Retrieved 3 April 2020.
  8. ^ "Archibald Prize Archibald 2005 finalist: Still posing after all this time (a self-portrait) by Annette Bezor". Home. Retrieved 2 April 2020.

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