Artist Talk and Members Gathering
How does girl from 1950’s country Queensland go from being told, “You can never make a living from Art” to being the Governing Parton of a National Museum bearing her name?Come, find out and meet renowned Spiritual and Environmental artist Sharon Davson at the Royal Queensland Arts Society Artist Talk.
This event is also the Official Announcement for the establishment and the First Anniversary of the Davson Arts & National Glass Museum. This museum amalgamated three established Davson related museum collections with her personal foundational collection of 6,500 – 7,000 glass items to form the Davson Arts & National Glass Museum on 7 April 2022.
Ticket Prices:
$5 for RQAS members
$15 for non-members
Ticket prices include afternoon tea.
About Sharon Davson:
Although spasmodic with frequent droughts in between, paintings by Davson have sold for the highest price by a living artist in Australia. In most countries, this position is held by male artists. Sharon Davson is currently the only living female artist in this highly valued position.
Sharon Davson does her best to live her life in gratitude. Yet, it was a struggle for survival, for acceptance, and in maintaining faith. She inadvertently remains outside the accepted commercial gallery and auction house systems. Davson has represented herself for most of her career. Since 1984, the majority of her art has been sold before being created, and this without being open to the public since 1991, nor any particular reliance on modern technologies or social media.
Her life journey contains many challenges in her field of art, in life itself, and in her passion to make a difference for community in the local and broader sense. Davson has directed funds from the sale of art by her to support charitable initiatives across the globe. Making a difference is the driving force in her life’s work, it is the gentle and inspiring subject content of her jig-saw puzzle piece paintings that visually communicate with diverse audiences.
Davson’s innate desire to leave the world in a better position than when she entered it, has seen her environmental and spiritual art consistently grow in value, pretty much in keeping with what she has needed to give away to ensure her priority passions thrive.
Her first painting sale was in 1967, at age of 15 and was for $20. “The money went toward building a new church”, she said. “It began a pattern in my life whereby my art would also help fund greater meaning.”
