Yvonne Audette is one of Australia’s most accomplished abstract artists. In the early 1950s she travelled to the United States of America to study and was introduced to the burgeoning abstract styles of the day, encountering the radical new work of artists including Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline. In 1955 she traveled to Europe, establishing studios in Italy where she lived and worked, presenting numerous successful exhibitions, until returning to Australia permanently in 1966. This exhibition of paintings and drawings will focus on the Audette’s expatriate years, charting the development of her distinctive abstract vocabulary, from her earliest experimentation with abstract forms to the lyrical calligraphic and graffiti works for which she is renowned.
