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Mirka Madeleine Mora (née Zelik) (18 March 1928 – 27 August 2018) was a French-born Australian visual artist and cultural figure who contributed significantly to the development of Australian contemporary art. Her media included drawing, painting, sculpture and mosaic .
Mar 13, 2021 · A new exhibition at Melbourne's Jewish Museum explores the painful personal story of Mirka Mora, a woman who transformed Australia's art scene with her colourful art and personality.
Mirka Mora (1928–2018), French-born artist and restaurateur, narrowly escaped Auschwitz as a girl. Having trained in drama in Paris, by 1951, when she came to Melbourne with her husband, Georges, she was committed to painting.
A sensual celebration of life, love and personal history, Untitled (Tolarno mural) c 1966 is an early masterpiece in the remarkable career of French émigré artist Mirka Mora, whose contribution to Australian art is still to be fully recognised.
Oct 17, 2018 · A new exhibition at Heide Museum of Art commemorates the life and work of the late Mirka Mora (1928 – 2018), a beloved figure in the cultural landscape and creative zeitgeist of Australia. In a colourful career spanning more than six decades, the French-born Australian artist long captured the public imagination with her radiant personality ...
Aug 27, 2018 · Artist Mirka Mora, praised as a "driving force" in Victoria's arts scene and one who helped transform Melbourne into the "creative and cosmopolitan city it is today", dies aged 90.
Aug 27, 2018 · Mirka Mora, one of Melbourne's best-known and most-loved artists whose distinctive works have adorned the city like no other, has died at the age of 90. Mirka, one of Melbourne's most famous bohemians, transformed the culture of her adopted home town since emigrating to Australia in the 1950s from war-torn France.
