VIRGINIA CUPPAIDGE EXHIBITED IN ‘KNOW MY ABSTRACTION’ AT UNIVERSITY GALLERIES, UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE

Virginia Cuppaidge is exhibited in Know My Abstraction at University Gallery at the University of Newcastle from the 19th of July to the 6th of September.

Know My Abstraction offers a regional counterpoint to the National Gallery of Australia’s 2019 Know My Name initiative, extending its critical reckoning with gender imbalance into the the terrain of local practice shaped by place, process, and perception. As Linda Nochlin famously argued, the absence of “great women artists” reflects not a lack of talent but entrenched structural barriers. This exhibition addresses that disparity by amplifying the work of four Newcastle-based women abstractionists; Virginia Cuppaidge, Belinda Street, Lezlie Tilley, and Patricia Wilson-Adams, whose practices span decades, continents, and disciplines, yet remain firmly anchored in memory and the landscape.

Virginia Cuppaidge has contributed nine small paintings to the exhibition.