Lola Ryan

Lola Ryan (1925–2003) was an Australian shellworker of Tharawal/Eora descent who lived in La Perouse. Her work is in the permanent collections of several Australian museums.

Lola Ryan
Born1925
Died2003 (aged 77–78)
NationalityAustralian
Known forShell art

Biography

Ryan, who was of Tharawal/Eora descent, lived in La Perouse and learned shellworking from her family.[1][2] Ryan often worked with her sister, Mavis Longbottom.[3] Ryan and her sister, Longbottom, started selling their work as children.[4] The sisters would collect shells from Yarra Beach and other areas along the coast of New South Wales.[4]

Work

Ryan's work is often brightly coloured, "encrusted" and scaled for use as art in the home.[5] She began to work with art collector, Peter Fay, in the late 1990s.[6] She started showing her work in galleries around the same time and in 2001, she showed her work at Gitte Weise's Gallery.[1][2]

Ryan's work is in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia,[7] the Art Gallery of New South Wales,[8] the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery,[9] the Australian National Maritime Museum,[10] the Museum of Contemporary Art,[11] and the Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences.[4]

References
  1. "Cultural Renewal". Art Gallery of New South Wales. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
  2. Loxley, Anne (24 October 2001). "Tradition Comes Out of Its Shell, and It's a Glittering Creation". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 6 August 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. Shimmer (PDF). Wollongong Art Gallery. p. 5.
  4. "Four shellwork boxes made by Mavis Longbottom and Lola Ryan at La Perouse". Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
  5. Weston, Gemma. "In defence of bad taste: the art of Pat Larter and Lola Ryan". The Conversation. Retrieved 6 August 2019.
  6. Nugent, Maria (2014). "Shellwork on Show: Colonial History, Australian Aboriginal Women and the Display of Decorative Objects". Journal of Material Culture. 19 (1): 85. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.843.5600. doi:10.1177/1359183513509535. S2CID 144194168.
  7. Ryan, Lola. "Harbour Bridge". Item held by National Gallery of Australia. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
  8. "Kooka, (2000) by Lola Ryan :: The Collection". Art Gallery NSW. Retrieved 6 August 2019.
  9. "Glitter: Pater Larter vs. Lola Ryan" (PDF). Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery. 2014. Retrieved 6 August 2019.
  10. "Shell map of Australia inspired the Al – Istakhari's map". Australian National Maritime Museum. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
  11. MCA Collection. MCA Store. 2012. p. 90. ISBN 978-1-921034-54-1.
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