Elizabeth Durack - Legacy

Legacy

The estate of Elizabeth Durack contains original material from the 1920s on through all decades up until the year 2000. The material consists principally of artworks, manuscripts, poetry and letters. During her lifetime Durack held many successful exhibitions but resisted selling certain key works that remain with the estate. Rare among artists, she produced her best work late in life.

Since her death, executors have arranged exhibitions as follows:

• The Art of Eddie Burrup presented by the Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London in July 2000;
• Prelude — Early works by Elizabeth Durack 1947–50, a Travelling Exhibition, presented by Art on the Move, the National Exhibitions Touring Structure for Western Australia, in 2002–3
• an auction presented by McKenzies Auctioneers, Perth, May 2006;
• a sale of miscellaneous printed and original material, presented by Robert Muir Old and Rare Books, Perth, July 2006;
• paintings from the series, Battle Cries (1978) and Bett-Bett's wonderful lonely palace ... (1985) presented by Greenhill Galleries, Perth, May 2007
• With outstretched arms ... Kimberley Sisters of St John of God with children, patients and friends in postwar Broome, Derby and Beagle Bay presented by Forty7ED at the Lingiari Foundation Centre, Broome Western Australia, July 2007.

Elizabeth was interviewed and featured on numerous radio and TV shows including 60 minutes