biography
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Churcher, Betty
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popular name of Elizabeth Ann Churcher
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| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1931– )
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| biography:
| Arts administrator, born in Brisbane, Queensland, NE Australia. She studied in London at the Courtauld Institute and the Royal College of Art. She held a range of academic positions in Australia, wrote the award-winning book Understanding Art (1974), and was chairman of Australia Council's Visual Arts Board (1983–7) and director of the Art Gallery of Western Australia (1987–9). She was director of the Australian National Gallery (1990–7), during which time the Gallery received critical praise, broke attendance records, and mounted such acclaimed exhibitions as ‘The Age of Angkor’, from the National Museum of Phnom Penh. |
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