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Phyllis Margaret Cilento (23 December 1923 – 21 November 2006) was an Australian painter and printmaker. Biography. Cilento was born in Sydney, Australia on 23 December 1923. She studied at East Sydney Technical College. In 1947, Cilento went to New York on a Travelling Scholarship.
painter and printmaker, eldest daughter of Sir Raphael and Lady (Phyllis) Cilento, was born on 23 December 1923 in Sydney but brought up in Brisbane. Margaret went to school at Somerville House when Caroline Barker was art mistress there.
Sydney, Australia. Place of Death. Seaford, Australia. Birth Name. Margaret Cilento. The most complete record of Cilento’s career can be found in Jude Savage, “Atelier 17 and Australian Women Artists in New York: Margaret Cilento at Home and Abroad, 1946–1965” (MA thesis, Australian National University, 1995). ↩.
Margaret Cilento (born Phyllis Margaret Cilento), painter, printmaker, illustrator and designer, was born in Sydney, Australia on December 23, 1923. She grew up in Brisbane but moved to Sidney in 1943. She studied at Goldsmith College, London; Central School Art and Design, London; Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris; and East Sydney Technical College.
Cilento produced most of her prints in the late l940s and early 1950s and is primarily known for her paintings which she exhibits regularly. She presently lives and works in Victoria. © Australianprints, 1999
As a child, Margaret Cilento travelled with her family to Papua New Guinea before settling in Brisbane in 1928. During the 1930s, she studied at Somerville House and Brisbane’s Central Technical College while attending art classes run by Caroline Barker.
Also known as Phyllis Margaret Cilento, Margaret Cilento-Maslen. Artist. Painter and printmaker. Resident of Queensland, New South Wales, America and Europe. Underhill firmly believes that Cilento should be acknowledged as introducing Abstract Expressionism to Brisbane.
