Mary Tonkin
Mary Tonkin is an Australian artist, who in 2002 won the Dobell Prize, the highest prize for drawing in Australia. She was awarded her prize for her work ''Rocky Outcrop, Werribee Gorge 2000''.Tonkin was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1973. In 1992, she was accepted to study at the Faculty of Art and Design at Monash University. She went on to obtain a Bachelor of Arts (Fine Arts) with honours and a Masters in Fine Arts.
From 1996 to 2004, she was a lecturer at Monash University.
Major recent exhibitions of Tonkin's works include ''Near the top dam'' (2007), a retrospective exhibition ''Home 2000-2010'' (2011–2) at the Burrinja Gallery in Upwey, Victoria, and at the Sydney Contemporary in 2022, which included the major, 21-panel work ''Ramble, Kalorama'' (2017–19), which was featured in [https://www.art-almanac.com.au/mary-tonkin-ramble/ Art Almanac] in 2019. Provided by Wikipedia
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by Tonkin, Mary
Published 1783
Published 1783
Printed for, and sold by the author, at Mr. Vaughan, No.8, Princes-street, Leicester-fields; and M. Davis, Sackville-street, Piccadilly