Biography
Born Sydney, 1938. Attended Hornsby High School. Studied at the National Art School, where she benefited particularly from the teachers John Passmore, Godfrey Miller, Peter Laverty and Dorothy Thornhill. During her studies, she was awarded the National Art School's Nancy Kilgour Memorial Prize in 1956, and the Art Gallery of NSW's Robert Le Gay Brereton Memorial Prize. In 1961, she completed the Associate of Sydney Technical College Diploma in Painting program, being awarded the medallion as the highest Honours graduating student. Later she would study ancient history at the University of Western Australia, and later again she studied prehistoric archaeology, French language and prehistoric rock art with the University of New England.
In 1971, Margaret moved to Perth in Western Australia. While there, she lectured at the West Australian Institute of Technology (now John Curtin University) and won the Wynne Prize at the Art Gallery of NSW.
In 1978, she returned to Sydney and completed a Graduate Diploma in Education at Sydney Teacher's College, and began teaching at Hornsby College of Technical and Further Education, with whom she maintained a long association. Margaret has travelled extensively to: Java, Hong Kong, Zimbabwe, Kenya and Europe. She has also undertaken many field trips to central, northern and north-western Australia, including the Canning stock route, Durbar Springs, and Warburton in Western Australia. These travels have provided much of the imagery for her paintings and graphic work.
As well as the Wynne Prize, she has won a number of significant prizes including: the Portia Geach Memorial Award in 1983 and 1984; and the Kedumba Drawing Award in 1990.
She is represented in public collections including: Art Gallery of NSW; Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory; University of Western Australia; Murdoch University, Western Australia; Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council; Artbank; Wollongong City Gallery; Newcastle Regional Art Gallery; Ipswich Regional Art Gallery, Queensland.
Member of the Australian Watercolour Institute from 1995-2002 and since 2006.
Selected Bibliography:
Gavin Fry, Margaret Woodward, The Beagle Press, 2002.
Keri Whitely, Lou Klepac, Joy Warren, Gay Hendriksen, Margaret Woodward, Inside Looking Out, Parramatta Heritage Centre, 2003.
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