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Violet Teague
1872–1951
An adventurous Australian artist and writer, she blended painting, printmaking, poetry, and art criticism with a deep interest in the natural world. Her pioneering woodcut book Night Fall in the Ti-Tree remains a distinctive landmark in Australian artists’ books.
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Night Fall in the Ti-Tree
by Violet Teague, Geraldine Rede
About the author
Born in Melbourne in 1872, she studied at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School before continuing her training in Europe with Ernest Blanc-Garin in Brussels and Hubert von Herkomer in England. She exhibited in Paris and Australia, earning recognition for her portraits, paintings, etchings, and lithographs.
She was also an early Australian practitioner of Japanese-inspired woodblock printing. In 1905, she collaborated with Geraldine Rede on Night Fall in the Ti-Tree, a charming illustrated book about bushland rabbits that combined her verses with colored woodcuts. Later in life, she traveled through Central Australia, befriended Albert Namatjira, helped raise funds for water infrastructure at Hermannsburg Mission, and continued writing about art until her death in 1951.