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Nancy Borlase (Nancy Wilmot Borlase) was born on 24 March, 1914 in Taihape, New Zealand, is an Australian artist (1914–2006). Discover Nancy Borlase's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 92 years old?

Popular As Nancy Wilmot Borlase
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Age 92 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 24 March 1914
Birthday 24 March
Birthplace Taihape, New Zealand
Date of death 11 September, 2006
Died Place Sydney, Australia
Nationality New Zealand

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Her husband is Laurie Short (m. 1941)

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1914

Nancy Wilmot Borlase (24 March 1914 – 11 September 2006) was a New Zealand-born Australian artist, known for her landscape-based abstract paintings and portraits, and as an art critic and commentator.

Her work is displayed in the National Gallery of Australia and other major galleries.

Born in Taihape, New Zealand, in 1914, Borlase was 16, when she decided that art was her calling and shifted to Christchurch, where she studied at Canterbury College School of Art under Francis Shurrock.

1937

Borlase moved to Australia in 1937, at age 22, where she studied life drawing and sculpture at East Sydney Technical College under Frank Medworth and Lynden Dadswell (1937–1940)and also life drawing under Rah Fizelle and Grace Crowley before switching to painting.

1939

In 1939, she joined the Contemporary Art Society, NSW branch and was an active committee member of the Society between 1952 and 1970.

She lived for a while next to Sidney Nolan in Melbourne, was befriended by his benefactor John Reed, and worked as an artist's model.

1941

She married trade union figure Laurie Short in 1941.

Borlase started as a figurative painter before moving to abstract impressionism.

1956

Her work was influenced by a study tour to New York in 1956, where she encountered Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko.

1960

Other study tours included tours to the USA 1960; Europe 1956, 1969, 1972, 1973; China 1976 (as one of three art writers).

1972

She worked as an art critic at The Bulletin, Sydney between 1972 and 1973, and the Sydney Morning Herald from 1973.