Briony Downes is an arts writer based in Hobart. She has worked in the arts industry for over 20 years as a writer, actor, gallery assistant, art theory tutor and fine art framer. Most recently, she spent time studying Art History through Oxford University.
“Running with the hares while hunting with the hounds”: the life and art of Elizabeth Blair Barber
Throughout her nine decades, Elizabeth Blair Barber used her vibrant social life as the wife of Charles Bunning (of the Bunnings hardware empire) to fuel her art practice and raise the profile of other female creatives by painting well-known figures from the West Australian art scene.
