Grace Crowley
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Sep 29, 2026
Lisa SladeHOST
Gleeson completed close to 100 interviews, letting the tape roll and the stories unfold from one artist to another.
Lisa SladeHOST
In this episode, Gleeson visits Grace Crowley, one of the leading figures in modern art in Australia.
Lisa SladeHOST
We meet Crowley in her late 80s, and as the tape starts recording, she takes us from her childhood memories in regional Australia to France, where she received on-the-ground training in modern European art.
Lisa SladeHOST
Crowley also shares an endearing portrait of her relationships with the artists Anne Dengar, with whom she made the leap from Sydney to Paris in 1926, and Ralph Bolson, who was her close collaborator until his death in 1964.
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Grace CrowleySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You'll certainly be very welcome if I can be of any use.
James GleesonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Thank you very much.
Lisa SladeHOST
Grace Crowley is featured in Australian Art Highlights of the Collection on display at the National Gallery.
Lisa SladeHOST
This has been NGA Art Talks, brought to you by the National Gallery of Australia.
Jeremy EatonGUEST
Things that really stuck out to me, you know, there are letters that he was writing to Margal Hinder to commission a public sculpture in Sydney.
Jeremy EatonGUEST
There's a great letter from Grace Crowley, you know, scolding him for getting some facts wrong in one of his books about the where and when of her whereabouts in her European sojourns.
Jeremy EatonGUEST
Brilliant.
Jeremy EatonGUEST
But I think the item in the archive that moved me the most was, This book that he made in the 1990s, and this was for his partner, Frank O'Keefe.
Beckett RozentalsGUEST
No, over the years I've worked on quite a number of exhibitions.
Beckett RozentalsGUEST
A couple of years ago I did a Grace Crowley and Ralph Bolson retrospective.
Beckett RozentalsGUEST
I worked on a joint exhibition with the National Portrait Gallery, who are you and I.
Beckett RozentalsGUEST
Also, I'm just thinking of recent things, recently-ish, I did a Rosalie Gascoigne and Lorraine Conley and all the exhibition with Miles Russell Cook.