Action / Gesture / Paint: A Global Story of Women and Abstraction 1940 - 70 Brand / Blue Island Press Daniel’s exhibitions and purchases –

Daniel’s exhibitions and purchases – as the first museum professional at the Art Gallery of New South Wales

With a career spanning over forty-five years

purity represented by the white lily or spiritual awakening by the bloom of the lotus

illuminating Mirka’s significance as one of Australia’s most compelling

the reader is drawn into the astounding mind of a man who has worked with Andy Warhol

Action / Gesture / Paint: A Global Story of Women and Abstraction 1940 - 70 Brand / Blue Island Press Daniel’s exhibitions and purchases –Drawing on the avant garde movements of both Expressionism and Surrealism, the women of Abstract Expressionism redefined artistic practice as an immersive arena for action, process and consciousness. Their paintings were regarded not as images but as events. Although the movement officially began in mid century USA, it quickly through myriad means spread around the world and became a catalyst for redefining ideas around aesthetics, poetry, philosophy