Meroogal Women's Art Prize 2007

Origins & identity at Meroogal

Meroogal is a house in Nowra lived in by four generations of women from the Thorburn family, from 1886 to 1985. The women lived frugal but satisfying and interesting lives. They made their own clothes, upholstered furniture and tended an orchard and vegetable garden.

Touring Details

Spiral Gallery - Bega | 5 - 24 October 2007
HHT Members Lounge, The Mint | 30 October 2007 - 26 January 2008
Sturt Gallery - Mittagong | 3 - 24 February 2008
Wollongong City Gallery | 8 March - 25 May 2008
Tuggeranong Arts Centre | 29 May - 15 June 2008

Women artists of the South Coast and Southern Highlands were invited to submit art works which responded creatively to the theme, Origins & Identity at Meroogal.