Catalogue
Catalogue
Object Type
Name/Title
Sailing to Vava'u aboard the Tongan Government ketch Aoniu.
Primary Maker
Date
Circa 1954
Signature/marks
Physical Description
Level of Current Record
Single Item
Related Object Notes
Sandwith, Noelle Ora. Wide-eyed in Tonga: a south seas odyssey. MS 94/43.
PA 36 (1-6); PB 40; PC 51 (2-23; PD (1-6).
Is Part Of
Media/Materials
Gouache on paper
Subject Category
Provenance Details
Noelle Sandwith
"Junglewood'
17 Addison Road
Wanstead, London
England
Public Access Text
Group of mainly women and children resting in shade under canvas awning. "Exhibited Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York, 1969"
The numbering sequence in the series field follows Noelle Sandwith's list included with the text of the manuscript.
Subject Notes
Noelle Sandwith trained at the Kingston-upon-Thames Art School (1944-45), Croydon Art School (1946) and Heatherley Art School (1947-48). In 1950 she accompanied her uncle to Tonga where she taught and travelled. Following a sketching holiday in the outbacks of Australia, she returned to Tonga in 1953, living with a Tongan family, sketching and recording the islands' social life and customs before returning to England in 1954 to train as a nurse. Her work on the Tongan Islands has received international press coverage.
Exhibited: 1956 & 1958 in group shows at the Royal Society of British Artists; 1960 invited to exhibit at Foyles Art Gallery 'Coolibahs to Coconuts'; 1961 London Society of Women Artists; 1962 & 1965 Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions; 1969 Brighton Art Gallery; 1970 London Society of Women Artists; 1996 The Heatherly School of Fine Art 150 year Anniversary Exhibition; 2005 National Museum of Australia 'In search of the Birdsville Track'.
Represented in collections at: The Royal Naval College, Greenwich, UK; The Starr Foundation, Albion, Michigan, USA; The Museum of Mankind, London, UK; The National Museum of Australia, Canberra; The Auckland Museum, Auckland, New Zealand; The Royal Free Archives, London, UK.
Copyright
All rights reserved
Credit Line
Donated by Noelle Sandwith. 1993.
Last Update
08 Feb 2024
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