Georgina Alice Gregory (18 October 1874 – 5 June 1964) was an Australian artist. Gregory was born on 18 October 1874 in

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to Alice (née Topp) and John Burslem Gregory, barrister-at-law. She was the second of seven children. Her family was friendly with the Teague family, whose daughter

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also became a notable artist at the

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of Art. She studied at the

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for five years in the 1880s, and attended the Melbourne School of Art (MSA) and Charterisville where she was taught by

E. Phillips Fox Emanuel Phillips Fox (12 March 1865 – 8 October 1915) was an Australian impressionist painter. After studying at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School in Melbourne, Fox travelled to Paris to study in 1886. He remained in Europe until ...

and

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. At the MSA's annual exhibition in 1898 she was award first prize for a landscape painting, described in ''

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'' as "venturesome choice of a group of bare trees breaking the foreground of her picture provided difficulty enough for the oldest artist". Gregory subsequently became a member of the Victorian Artists' Society and regularly exhibited with them from 1898 to 1912. One of Gregory's most well known works is perhaps ''Four Art Students, Charterisville,'' an oil painting she completed while a student at the former. The painting shows four students working at the Charterisville estate of E. Phillips Fox, and has been exhibited and illustrated more than any other artwork by an Australian woman impressionist. Ina and her sister Ada lived in relative seclusion at the back of ''Rosedale'', their family's home in St Kilda. By 1908 according to some accounts she was practically nocturnal, believing in "a life intellectual and emotional, lifted far above the materiality of an average existence." In 1916 Gregory was one of the Melbourne artists who volunteered to paint the portraits of children to raise funds for the French Red Cross. A solo exhibition of 176 her artworks at the

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was opened by

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in April 1925 and received mixed reviews. A joint exhibition with Jane Price in June 1942 was favourably reviewed, Harold Herbert reporting in the Argus that "Ina Gregory has caught the colour and has seen the decorative possibilities of autumn foliage ... and many of her panels of orchard blossoms are splendid".

Legacy

Ina Gregory - Flowers of thought culled from nature's garden - page 6

Her work has been collected by the

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and

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. Ina Gregory Circuit in the Canberra suburb of Conder is named in her honour.

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