Rosie Weiss - artist as a gentle activist

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Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery

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Rosie Weiss is a Mornington Peninsula based artist and educator. In 1992 she won the Moet & Chandon Australian art Fellowship. Rosie's work Two Banksias Holding On was acquired for the MPRG collection in the 2018 National Works on Paper. Rosie talks about her diaristic approach to her work, her interest in the environment and how she makes sense of the world through her art. Hear about her first teaching job at Pentridge, instructing life drawing in Saudi Arabia and her work with the Rosebud West women’s group. A conversation with MPRG curator Danny Lacy. Our 2018 podcast program is supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation. Introduction by Nathan Schroeder, Music courtesy of The Basics