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Josephine Caddy (1914 – 2005) was an American-Australian
painter Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...
and ceramicist, who worked in the media of acrylic,
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, printmaking,
drawing Drawing is a Visual arts, visual art that uses an instrument to mark paper or another two-dimensional surface, or a digital representation of such. Traditionally, the instruments used to make a drawing include pencils, crayons, and ink pens, some ...
, and ceramics. She focused on portraiture in both her paintings and ceramics, including "people pots", vases featuring human faces.


Biography

Caddy was born in
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, USA and spent part of her childhood in
Juneau Juneau ( ; ), officially the City and Borough of Juneau, is the capital of the U.S. state of Alaska, located along the Gastineau Channel and the Alaskan panhandle. Juneau was named the capital of Alaska in 1906, when the government of wha ...
, Alaska. She completed a degree in Fine Arts at the
Vancouver School of Art The Emily Carr University of Art and Design (stylized as Emily Carr University of Art + Design and abbreviated as ECU) is a public university of art and design located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Founded in 1925 as the Vancouver Schoo ...
. She arrived in Tasmania in 1951 and moved to Adelaide in 1957, where she frequently held exhibitions of her work and taught at the South Australian School of Art (now the
University of South Australia The University of South Australia is a public research university based in Adelaide, South Australia. Established in 1991, it is the successor of the former South Australian Institute of Technology. Its main campuses along North Terrace are ...
),
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and Girton Girls' School. Caddy travelled widely and she would sketch prolifically, using this material to generate paintings and ceramics for an exhibition upon her return to her studio. Caddy was divorced and had three children.


Notable works

Jo Caddy's paintings are held by the
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and in several private collections. Seven of her portraits were finalists in the
Archibald Prize The Archibald Prize is an Australian portraiture art prize for painting, generally seen as the most prestigious portrait prize in Australia. It was first awarded in 1921 after the receipt of a bequest from J. F. Archibald, J. F. Archib ...
and she won the Portia Geach Memorial Award in 1967. Caddy produced portraits of several notable Australian and international figures including: * Joy Adamson (naturalist) * Justice John Jefferson Bray (Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia) * Jo Caddy (self portrait) (Finalist 1967 Archibald Prize; Finalist 1968 Archibald Prize) *Christopher Coventry (artist) (Finalist 1973 Archibald Prize) * Lawrence Daws (artist) (Winner 1967 Portia Geach Memorial Award; Finalist 1967 Archibald Prize) * Peter Duncan (Australian Politician) *
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(Australian Actress) * Father Owen Farrell (Finalist 1969 Archibald Prize) *
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(actor) (Finalist 1968 Archibald Prize) * Sir Robert Helpmann (ballet dancer, actor and choreographer) * Brian Medlin (Professor of Philosophy,
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) (Finalist 1969 Archibald Prize) *
Milton Moon Milton Moon AM (29 October 1926 - 6 September 2019) was an Australian potter. He studied in many countries, as a recipient of a Foundation Winston Churchill Fellowship and also as a Myer Foundation Geijutsu Fellow. Early years Milton Moon wa ...
(Australian artist) *Seymour Segal (Canadian artist) * Mervyn Smith (Australian artist) * Hamilton D'Arcy Sutherland (heart surgeon)


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Caddy, Jo 1910s births 2006 deaths 20th-century Australian artists American emigrants to Australia Place of birth missing Date of birth unknown Place of death missing Date of death missing Women's Art Register artists