Olive Pink : artist, activist & gardener : a life in flowers

Resource Information

The work Olive Pink : artist, activist & gardener : a life in flowers represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Olive Pink : artist, activist & gardener : a life in flowers

Title remainder

artist, activist & gardener : a life in flowers

Statement of responsibility

Gillian Ward

Title variation

Life in flowers

Creator

• Ward, Gillian

Contributor

• trueMarcus, Julie

Author

• Ward, Gillian

Subject

• trueAustralian
• Botanical artists -- Australia -- Biography
• Botanical artists -- Australia | Northern Territory -- Biography
• Botanical artists -- Australia | Tasmania -- Biography
• Botanical artists -- Northern Territory -- Biography
• Botanical artists -- Tasmania -- Biography
• Botanical illustration -- Australia
• Flowers -- Australia | Northern Territory -- Pictorial works
• Flowers -- Northern Territory
• Flowers -- Northern Territory -- Pictorial works
• trueFlowers in art
• Northern Territory -- Biography
• Aboriginal Australians -- Civil rights
• Olive Pink Flora Reserve (N.T.)
• Pink, Olive M
• Tasmania -- Biography
• Women anthropologists -- Australia -- Biography
• Women anthropologists -- Australia | Tasmania -- Biography
• Women anthropologists -- Northern Territory | Alice Springs -- Biography
• Women anthropologists -- Tasmania -- Biography
• Women human rights workers -- Australia -- Biography
• trueWomen painters -- Australia -- Biography
• Olive Pink Botanic Garden (N.T.)
• trueAnthropologists -- Australia -- Biography

Genre

• truePictorial works
• trueBiography

Language

eng

Summary

Olive Pink: Artist, Activist & Gardener presents a superb selection of original paintings of the iconic flowers of the Central Australian region, alongside a fascinating biography featuring beautifully reproduced memorabilia of a colourful and unconventional historical Australian figure. A fiercely independent woman ahead of her time, Olive Pink is best known for her staunch support of the Aboriginal people of Central Australia and for her often feisty encounters with anthropologists, missionaries and local pastoralists. Olive fought hard not only for the rights of the local Arrernte and Warlpiri people, with whom she forged a strong connection, but also to recognise and protect the diversity of the local flora about which she was so passionate. Olive Pink's many beautiful paintings express her intimate knowledge and love of the region's flora: a love that led to her establishing, with the support of Aboriginal gardeners, a flora reserve in Alice Springs, now known as the Olive Pink Botanic Garden

Biography type

individual biography

Cataloging source

YDX

Dewey number

301.092

Illustrations

• illustrations
• portraits

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult

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