Dawn Sime

Dawn Sime (1 June 1932 – 28 May 2001), who was also known as Dawn Frances Sloggett and Dawn Westbrook, was an abstract painter who was part of the expressionist movement in Melbourne in the late 1950s and 1960s. She spent most of her life in Melbourne and died in Castlemaine.

Education and career As the youngest and only girl in her family, Sime enjoyed reading and drawing and expressed a wish to attend art school at 16 years of age.

Together the Simes joined the Contemporary Art Society in the early 1950s. Her reputation enabled her to become an art teacher at the Fintona Girls' School without having any formal teaching training.

Exhibitions and residencies

1960 Gallery 43, Dalgety St, St. Kilda 1962, she represented Australia at the Tate Gallery in London 1987, held an outdoor studio for 2 weeks at the Victoria Gardens in High Street as the Prahan Council's artist-in-residence 1995, A l'ombre des jeunes filles et des fleurs: In the shadow of young girls and flowers, group show, Benalla Art Gallery, Benalla , Vic. 10 March – 28 May 1996, Looking through: selected works by Dawn Sime, Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic. a retrospective of Sime's works from the 1960s,

Collections The Women's Art Register artist files highlight her presence in the following gallery collections.

National Gallery of Victoria Art Gallery of Western Australia Ballarat Fine Arts Gallery Auckland Art Gallery Castlemaine Art Museum Commonwealth Collection, Canberra Reserve Bank, Sydney Reserve Bank, NSW

The Register holds 3 slides of Sime's work:

Leaf tower, 1970, oil wash on paper, 24" x 36" Notation for asparagus, 1975, photo-montage drawing, 18" x 36" Through a glass darkly, 1976, photo-montage drawing.