Bea Maddock
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Beatrice Louise (Bea) Maddock (born 1934) is an Australian artist.
Born in Hobart, Tasmania, Bea Maddock studied in Hobart and London. She taught printmaking at the Victorian College of the Arts from 1970 and returned to Tasmania as Head of the School of Art, Launceston in 1983-84. She was a Creative Arts Fellow at the Australian National University, Canberra, in 1976, and in 1991 was awarded the Order of Australia. She has won many prizes and is represented in the National Gallery of Australia, all State galleries, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the National Gallery in Washington.
Maddock is best known as a print maker, in which area she has had a profound impact on contemporary practice in Australia, combining printing with encaustic painting and installation art to explore the natural environment, Aboriginal Australia, and Australian history. In 1987 she participated in the 'Artists in Antarctica' program with Jan Senbergs and John Caldwell. Her latest work, 'Terra Spiritus', is a series of 51 prints depicting the entire Tasmanian coastline, each feature labelled with both the English and the original Tasmanian topographic names, while the colours are derived from native Tasmanian ochres.
