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Geraldine Rede
An Australian artist and political campaigner, she is best remembered for helping create a beautifully inventive early artist's book with Violet Teague. Her work links the worlds of printmaking, illustration, and public activism in the years around World War I.
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Born in 1874, Geraldine Rede was an Australian artist, illustrator, and political campaigner. She studied at the National Gallery School in Melbourne, where she became associated with fellow artist Violet Teague.
Rede is best known as the co-creator of Night Fall in the Ti-Tree (1905), a small but important artist's book made with Teague. The work has been described by major Australian collections as an early landmark in local colour relief printing, and Rede's illustrations also appear in other Australian art collections.
Beyond her art, she was active in public life and is remembered as a campaigner during the turbulent conscription debates of World War I. She died in 1943, leaving behind a legacy that is both artistic and civic-minded.