- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE4426
O’Connor, Ailsa Margaret
- Birth name Donaldson, Ailsa Margaret
- Born 26 January 1921, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Died 3 February 1980, Elwood, Victoria, Australia
- Occupation Activist, Artist, Teacher
Summary
Ailsa O’Connor was a radical artist who was a member of the Social Realist Group and the Contemporary Art Society in Melbourne. She joined the Communist party in 1944 and was a founding member of the Union of Australian Women in 1953. She participated in the feminist movement during the 1970s.
Events
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2001
Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women
Published resources
- Edited Book
- Book
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Resource
- Trove: O'Connor, Ailsa Margaret (1921-19801231), http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1476868
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- Unfinished work: articles and notes on women and the politics of art, Ailsa O'Connor, 1982, https://www.melbournerealists.org/aoc/ailsa.html