Margaret Ambridge
- Date of birth
- 1966
- Notes
- Margaret Ambridge is an Adelaide based artist whose major themes revolve around her intensely personal reactions to how we deal with boundaries and adversity. In particular the boundaries that define social transgression, not the large flamboyant transgressions, but small ones that begin as politeness, or apology and solidify into lies and taboos, the things that become social and cultural rigidities, that go on to inform and mould identity, whether we are aware of it or not. Born in Adelaide, South Australia in 1966 Margaret’s love of mark making began sitting at the kitchen table with her mother who was a well-respected artist and teacher. Working primarily with charcoal Margaret has been a finalist in many major Australian Art prizes including the Waterhouse and the Kedumba Drawing Award. She won the acquisitive Pro Hart Outback Art Prize in 2020 with her work "Struggling to remember", a work inspired by the devastation of bushfires. Her work is held in public and private national and private international collections. Source: https://www.margaretambridge.com.au/
