Edna Broad - Wattle Birds in the Fig Tree

Edna Broad
Wattle Birds in the Fig Tree (2012)
Acrylic on canvas
46 x 71cm

Edna Broad is a Launceston artist working from her studio in Invermay. Her artwork covers a variety of mediums – painting, mixed media, ceramics and print. She studied fine art at the University of Tasmania, completing a Masters degree (MFA) and then graduating with a PhD in 2005.

During a decades long artistic career exhibiting in solo and in group shows, as an art judge, post graduate assessor and arts writer, Edna has shown widely - locally, interstate and overseas, and is included in the collections of the Queen Victoria Museum, ANL Melbourne, and in private collections interstate and overseas. She has been a multiple finalist in the Glover Prize, The Maritime Art Award, and also the Burnie Print Prize, Material Girl, Women’s Art Prize Tasmania and The Bay of Fires Art Prize and 2021 National Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition.

A recent highlight in Edna’s career has been her inclusion in a 200 year survey of women’s work in the collection of the Queen Victoria Museum, Wellington Street, Launceston titled ‘Herself’ from December 2020 and during 2021.