Margaret Frew - Artist and Ceramicist
Hidden Talent: Untold Stories of the Fairview Art Collection
Release Date: 02/12/2020
Hidden Talent: Untold Stories of the Fairview Art Collection
An interview with art collector, heritage enthusiast and owner of historic Fairview, Thomas Murrell with Michael Tetlow on ABC Radio Perth Afternoons Program as they talk about the history of the house, the nationally significant collection of women's art and open as part of the 2024 Australian Heritage Festival..
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Australian oil painter Andrew Murrell (1945-2023) talks about his art and life.
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An interview with Helen Patterson, daughter of notable South Australian artist Mary Millicent Wigg (nee Lamphee) who was active from the 1940s to 2001. She was born on the 8th October 1904 and died on April 29, 2001 aged 96 years after a tragic car accident whilst returning from a painting trip to the Flinders Ranges in South Australia.
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Thomas Murrell is interviewed about his late Uncle's just published book "To Thyself Be True" by Bill Murrell. The interview is by Peter Goers of ABC Radio Adelaide 891 Evenings.
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Art collector Thomas Murrell is interviewed by Jenny Seaton on Curtin Radio about the World Heritage Day event on Subiaco's historic stained glass as part of the United Nations designated International Year of Glass.
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Art Collector Thomas Murrell is interviewed by ABC Radio Perth Afternoon show host Christine Layton about the upcoming seminar for World Heritage Day and the International Year of Glass on Subiaco's historic stained glass and leadlight.
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Glass historian Dr Bronwyn Hughes talks about the stained glass work of William Montgomery and Herbert Grimbly. Glass panels attributed to these glass artists are held in the collection at historic Fairview of Subiaco.
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Fourth generation glass artist and restorer Kim Fitzpatrick from Tradition Stained Glass talks about his art practice and then takes us on a tour of the stained glass collection of the historic home Fairview in Subiaco.
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Marie Tuck (1866 - 1947) was a South Australian and West Australian painter and art educator who was heavily influenced by French culture. One of her works is held in The Fairview Art Collection in Subiaco, Perth. A relative, Margaret Muirhead discusses her life and extraordinary talent as part of International Women's Day celebrations.
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The Fairview Art Collection
info_outlineMargaret Eunice Frew (nee Simms) was born at the Highbury Vale Hospital Basford in Nottingham in the United Kingdom on the 18th of May 1940 to an artist mother and a motor mechanic father, Gwen and Eric Simms. He was abroad when she was born and she did not meet him until she was five years old and at school. Margaret came to Australia as a 17-year-old in 1957. She completed an Art Diploma course from 1978 to 1984 at Rossmoyne TAFE majoring in art history, design, painting and pottery. She discontinued oil painting, as she was allergic to the fumes from the oils and turpentine, switched to watercolours and pen and ink washes and has now focused on ceramics. She had a joint exhibition at Atwell House with her husband John Frew in 1982 and has been a member of the South of The River Potters, the Perth Potters Group, Canning Arts Group, Whiteman Park Potters and The Pothole. In 1988, she moved to Chidlow’s Well and set up the Village Potters Club which is still active today and was in several exhibitions with other potters between 1990 and 2003. Her mother did not give up pottery until she was 90 years old and nearly blind, and Margaret plans to still be potting at the same age. Her work is held in many private collections, including the Fairview Art Collection in Subiaco, Perth.