Clarice Beckett

Presented by Andrew Gaynor

Clarice Beckett is famed as much for her misty evocations of Melbourne as she is known for her tragically short life. Cold-shouldered by much of the art establishment due to her ties to the controversial art-theorist Max Meldrum, she nonetheless held twelve solo exhibitions between 1923 and 1933. Equally tragically, much of her output was stored after her death in a rickety shed, of which at least two-thirds rotted due to the weather before being re-discovered in 1971. Andrew Gaynor has been researching Beckett since the early 2000s and has walked Beckett’s routes identifying exact locations for many of her paintings, particularly around the artist’s home suburb of Beaumaris.

Date and Location

Monday 15 June 2026 Murray River (NSW/VIC)

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