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Catherine Speck, Professorial Fellow (Honorary), The University of Melbourne

Australian art has lost two of its greats. Vale Ann Newmarch and Hossein Valamanesh

Adelaide Australia ARC Art Gallery of South Australia Tehran
Ann Newmarch, born Adelaide 1945, died Adelaide 2022, Self-portrait. 1/60th of a second, 1981, Adelaide, photo-etching on paper, 26.4 x 34.7 cm (plate), Public Donations Fund 2015, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, © Ann Newmarch; and Hossein Valamanesh with his work Untitled, Gallery 6, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2019

In the past ten days Australia has lost two important artworld figures. Both were senior artists working in Adelaide but with a reach extending far beyond the city or the nation.

Celebrated feminist artist, Ann Newmarch OAM, born June 9 1945, passed away on Thursday January 13 2022.

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