• Entry type: Person
  • Entry ID: AWE6183

Templeman, Romola

  • Birth name Clifton, Romola
    Former married name Morrow, Romola
(1935 – 2026)
  • Born 30 November 1935, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
  • Died 17 April 2026, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
  • Occupation Artist, Painter

Summary

Romola studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London from 1953 to 1955, followed by a year of study at the University of Western Australia where she became a medical artist. Romola held her first solo exhibition at the age of twenty-one, at Perth’s Skinner Galleries, in 1959.

Romola won the Claude Hotchin Prize and also the Helen Rubinstein Portrait Prize (1960). She was the former director and art consultant of Molongolo Press.

Archival resources

  • National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection
    • Papers of Romola Templeman, 1940-circa 1989 [manuscript]
    • Papers of Ian Templeman, circa 1990-2011 [manuscript]
  • National Library of Australia
    • [Biographical cuttings on Romola Templeman, artist, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals]
  • National Gallery of Australia, Research Library Archive
    • [Romola Templeman : Art & Artist Files (Australia and New Zealand)]. / Romola Templeman

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