Media Release
8 August 2023
Tasmanian artist Jane Giblin has created a striking new body of original work for her latest exhibition Dear Kate: the vision of the Mitchell women.
Jane has breathed new life into the drawings of Mitchell sisters, Catherine and Sarah, by using nineteenth century lithography and watercolour techniques in her own art.
Catherine was affectionately known as Dear Kate and created hundreds of detailed pen, ink and wash drawings which her sister, Sarah preserved in The Sarah Mitchell Scrapbook, with hundreds of her own handwritten notes.
The Mitchell family lived on Tasmania’s east coast in the 1860s. The sisters captured the essence of their daily lives and community activities in their intricate drawings and paintings, and handmade visual diaries.
Jane Giblin is a descendant of the extended Mitchell family.
“I learn about most things by drawing, and so I began copying little details from Kate’s works. I learnt about her vision and the quite unusual inclusion of herself in most of her works. My watercolours and lithographs in this show respond to some of the details I have enjoyed in Kate’s works over the past few years.”
Dear Kate: the vision of the Mitchell women is a free exhibition coming soon at the Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, 91 Murray Street, Nipaluna/Hobart from 11 Aug to 10 Nov 2023.
Artist/Curator: Jane Giblin.
- To find out more about Dear Kate and other Libraries Tasmania exhibitions visit libraries.tas.gov.au/exhibitions/
- To source more images please email communications.libraries@libraries.tas.gov.au
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