Ruth Faerber Celebrates Her 99th Birthday

Published on: November 2021

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Ruth Faerber Celebrates Her 99th Birthday

Ms FELICITY WILSON (North Shore)

—Speaker, I want to acknowledge the incredible milestone of Ruth Faerber, who celebrated her 99th birthday last month. Ruth was born in 1922 and was always determined to be an artist. She left school early to attend painting and drawing classes in the private studios of some of Australia's most acclaimed artists. After her first job as a commercial artist with a printing firm that specialised in the photogravure print process, Ruth became a foundation student of Joy Ewart's lithography class at the Workshop Arts Centre. In 1963 in one of the newly opened city galleries, she held the first of her subsequent 40 print exhibitions in Australia and overseas. In the 1980s, Ruth began to use freshly pressed, damp, handmade paper and used a process of bas-relief casting and hand painting. Ruth was able to create print editions inspired by her particular interest in archaeology. Ruth has had a successful career as an Australian artist in print form. Congratulations, Ruth, on reaching this incredible milestone, and I wish her and all her family the very best for the future.

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