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Australian Prints + Printmaking

Gwen Leitch Harris

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Name

Gwen Leitch Harris

Other names

Leitch, Gwen (née).

Culture

Australian

Gender

Female

Birth date

30 June 1931

Birth place

Burnie, Tasmania, Australia View on map Close map

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Death date

1 September 2006

Death Place

Adelaide, South Australia, Australia View on map Close map

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Movements

England c.1954-69

Occupations

Artist (graphic) | Artist (painter)

Summary

Worked: Australia (TAS, SA), England

Context

Australia

Biography

Gwen Leich Harris

Gwen Leich was born in Burnie, Tasmania in 1931. She studied at Hobart Technical College under Jack Carington Smith and Dorothy Stoner in 1950-51. Awarded the Tasmanian Government Travelling Scholarship in 1953 she studied at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, London from 1954-56 under Patrick Heron and Roger Hilton. Leitch lived in Cornwall from 1956-70 (she was awarded the Porthmeor Studio in 1957 and married the English painter Jeff Harris in 1959. They moved to Tasmania in 1970 and soon after settled in Adelaide where she is resumed her career as artist and educator.

[P+P, 2021]