Ann Grocott

Ann Oenone Grocott (born 1938) is an Australian writer and painter. In addition to figurative, portraiture and landscape painting, her artworks include: assemblages in fabric, cement, wood, found objects etc.; oils on canvas, paper and plaster; watercolours and small sculptures.[1]

Ann Grocott
Born
Ann Oenone Wood

1938 (age 82–83)
Glenelg, South Australia
NationalityAustralian
Known forPainting, writing

Biography

Ann Grocott was born in 1938 in Glenelg, South Australia. Her great-grandfather, Thomas Percy Wood (1855–1937) was an accomplished Watercolourist,[2] her father was the Australian painter, Noel Herbert Wood (1912–2001) and her uncle, Rex Wood (1906–1970) was an Australian painter/printmaker. Her father married Eleanor Weld Skipper (1908–1982) whom he met at Art School in Adelaide. An ancestor of Eleanor’s was John Michael Skipper (1815–1883) a painter who arrived as an early pioneer to Australia on the ship Africaine.[3]

In the 1980s Grocott published two novels for children aged 8–12 years: Duck For Danger and Danni's Desperate Journey (Angus & Robertson) a handbook "How to write for children" (AWPS) and several short stories. After this she decided to concentrate on painting. After working for a decade as a self-taught artist, Grocott earned a Post-Graduate Diploma in Fine Art from Monash University in 1991.[4]

She is represented in private and public collections. In 1999, she was one of five chosen to represent Australia in the Worldwide Millennium Art Show which later became the United Nations Millennium Artshow.[5] She has had several works shown in the Salon des Refuses, Sydney, Australia, an alternative to the prestigious exhibitions held annually for the Archibald and Wynne Prizes. She has had many solo and group exhibitions. Ann Grocott currently lives in Queensland, Australia.[4]

In 2019, just before an art auction in Melbourne, Ann Grocott discovered several works by her father Noel Wood were fakes or copies with a forged signature of her father's. The works were subsequently withdrawn from the auction sale.[6]

References
  1. "New Generation, Ancient Land by Ann Grocott". ABC Open. Retrieved 22 August 2014.
  2. State Library of South Australia
  3. "Africaine". Bound for South Australia. History Trust of South Australia. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
  4. "Curriculum Vitae". Ann Grocott. Retrieved 22 August 2014.
  5. "Our World in the Year 2000 - Images and Words - Ann Grocott". Winston and Newton.
  6. Heidrich, Wayne (3 May 2019). "Alleged art scam brushes Bundaberg". Bundaberg Now.

Further reading
  • "Author Strikes Book Success". News-Mail, Bundaberg, front page. March 19, 1985.
  • "Portrait of the artist as an older woman" Helen Elliot. The Age, (Accent page 12) 6th March, 1992.
  • "Art from Dark" Saturday (insert) News-Mail. Pages l,6,7
  • "Rich Ideas and Experimentation" Sasha Grishin. Canberra Times. June 23rd, 1993.
  • "Gallery Gallop" Ann Grocott. Weekend Australian, Review. Page 14, July 6-7, 1996.
  • "The Archibald: It Kind of Grows on You" Bruce James. The Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum Arts, March 27th 1999, Page 12.
  • "Double Honour for Artist", Page l, News-Mail. March 23rd, 2000.
  • "Archie's Sea Change" Bruce James, The Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum Arts, March 25th, 2000, Page 12.
  • "Our World in the Year 2000" Artist's Palette magazine, Pages 66,67. Edition 16, February 2001.
  • "Straight from the Art", Weekender (insert) News-Mail. Pages l,24,25. October 8th, 2011.
  • "Bloodline" exhibition, held in 2017 at the Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery, was curated by Ann Grocott and featured works by Thomas Wood, Rex Wood, Noel Wood and Ann Grocott (nee Wood).
  • "Paintings pulled from Auction",Wendy Tuohy/Debbie Cuthbertson. The Age, 3rd May, 2019, Front Page and pages 2 and 3.
  • "Auction house drops artworks after 'fakes' alarm raised by family. Wendy Tuohy. The Sydney Morning Herald, 3rd May, 2019,

Page 19 (News).

  • "Brush with law in sale of fake paintings", Chris Clark. COURIERMAIL.COM.AU, 4th May, 2019, Page 21 (News).
  • "Woman's safety fears amid art frenzy", Chris Burns. News-Mail, 4th May, 2019, Front Page and Page 3.
  • Bloodline
  • "Our World in the Year 2000" The United Nations Millennium Art Exhibition. ISBN 1900123 50 9
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