Ruby Spowart

Ruby Spowart (1928–2024) was an Australian photographer whose award-winning images of outback landscapes are based on some 40 safari tours in Australia and New Zealand. Spowart was a triple Master of Photography, Fellow and Honorary Fellow of the Australian Institute of Professional Photography. She also achieved a Certificate in Art from the Queensland College of Art as well as an Associate Diploma of Visual Art from Queensland University of Technology. Co-founder of the Brisbane Imagery Gallery in 1982, she exhibited there until 1995. From Polaroid colour photograms in the 1980s to large-scale photo mosaics in the 1990s and photobooks since 2000, she has created a considerable body of work. Spowart was a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Professional Photographers (AIPP).

In March 2009, Spowart was one of six Australian female photographers who were celebrated by the AIPP. The others were Bronwyn Kidd, Kate Geraghty, Karen Gowlett-Holmes, Lyn Whitfield-King and Jackie Ranken.

Spowart died in 2024, at the age of 95.

Work Spowart created an immense body of work in the following techniques:

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