Bancroft, Bronwyn (1958 - )

Bronwyn Bancroft completed a Diploma in Visual Arts at the Canberra School of Arts in 1980, and then moved to Sydney where she became involved with the Aboriginal Medical Service’s Fashion Show in 1985. Following the success of the fashion parade, she opened the shop ‘Designer Aboriginals’ in Rozelle, as an outlet for her own designs and the designs of other Aboriginal artists. In 1990 she moved from retail to wholesale production of fabrics in order to concentrate on painting and design. Her work was exhibited in Paris at the Printemps Fashion Parade in 1987, and also in London at the 1989 Australian Fashion: The Contemporary Art exhibition. In 1989 her paintings were included in nine exhibitions. Her first solo exhibition of paintings was held in Sydney in 1989, and in 1991 she collaborated with Sally Morgan to produce an exhibition of prints at the Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria.

Journal Articles

• 'Bancroft, Brownyn', Land Rights News, vol. 2, no. 7, 1988, p. 14. [ Details... ]
• Bancroft, Bronwyn, 'Learning to Understand: Art Helps to Dispel Ignorance', Artlink, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 22-23. [ Details... ]
• Bancroft, Bronwyn and Watson, Ken., 'Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative: Fact or Fantasy: You Decide!', Artlink, vol. 20, no. 1, 2000, pp. 78-79. [ Details... ]

Online Resources

• Welcome to Designer Aboriginals, http://www.bronwynbancroft.com/. [ Details... ]

See also

• Designer Aboriginal, Pemulwy Newsletter, 1987, 4 pp. [ Details... ]
• A Koori perspective tour : an Artspace touring exhibition., Artspace, Surry Hills, N.S.W., 1990, 20 pp. [ Details... ]
• Altman, Jon C. and Taylor, Luke., 'Marketing Aboriginal Art in the 1990s', Aboriginal Studies Press, 1990, pp. 23-25. [ Details... ]
• Barlow, Alex, Artists and Their Work, Macmillan Education Australia, South Melbourne, Vic, 1997. [ Details... ]
• Barrowclough, Nikki, 'For All of Us: Aboriginal Artists Sally Morgan and Bronwyn Bancroft Ponder Their Place in John Howard’s Australian Story', Good Weekend, Sydney Morning Herald, 12 October 1996, pp. 24-36. [ Details... ]
• Horton, David (ed.), The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture, Aboriginal Studies Press for AIATSIS, Canberra, 1994, 2 v. (xxxiii, 1340 p.) pp. [ Details... ]
• Isaacs, Jennifer, Aboriginality: Contemporary Aboriginal Paintings and Prints, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, Qld, 1989, 31-33, 130 pp. [ Details... ]