Dorothy Bordass (née Foster, 1905 – 1992), was a
British
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artist.
She studied at the
Académie Julian in Paris under R T Mumford, and at the
Heatherley School of Fine Art
The Heatherley School of Fine Art is an independent art school in London.
The school was named after Thomas Heatherley who took over as the school's principal from James Mathews Leigh (when it was named "Leigh's"). Founded in 1845, the schoo ...
under Ian McNab. Bordass painted in St Ives during the later 1950s/early 1960s and took part in many group shows, including the important
Metavisual Tachiste Abstract at The Redfern Gallery in 1957 and extensively abroad. Her solo shows include New Vision Centre Gallery, Woodstock Gallery, in the provinces and overseas. In 1958 she participated in the inaugural exhibition of the
National Gallery of Malaya, Kuala Lumpa.
Bordass was made a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Painters in 1978 and was a Fellow of
Free Painters and Sculptors
Free Painters and Sculptors (FPS) is an artist-led organisation based in London, England, which regularly exhibits every year. It played a pivotal role in the establishment of abstract art in the 1950s and 1960s.
History
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See also
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List of St. Ives artists
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1905 births
1992 deaths
20th-century English painters
Académie Julian alumni
Alumni of the Heatherley School of Fine Art
Painters from London
British expatriates in France