Dawn Undery

 

Born Cowra, NSW, 1922.  Died Evans Head, NSW, 2012.

 

In the 1940’s, Dawn studied art and textile design at East Sydney Technical College.  After World War II, she worked as a graphic artist in the drawing office of the Department of Main Roads, New South Wales, and later in the Australian Atomic Energy Commission as an illustrator of medical papers.

 

Dawn retired to Evans Head New South Wales in 1977 and turned her passion for fine detail and accuracy to botanical subjects, specialising in Australian native plants in watercolour.  When you study her work, you become mesmerised in the detail, and you get an image of the artist pouring over each element of the composition.

 

Dawn’s work is exhibited in many private collections in Australia and overseas, most recently in Seiji Togo Sompo Japan Museum of Art "A passion for plants - contemporary botanical masterworks".  She has had botanical prints on display at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Sydney since 1984, and has shown numerous group exhibitions from Botanica in Sydney to Brisbane Ashgrove and Evans Head Gallery.  In 2009, The North Coast Voices described Dawn as one of Australia’s leading botanical artists and Evans Head’s living treasure.