{{Short description|New Zealand artist (1904–2012)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2017}} {{Infobox artist | name = Edith Bayne | image = | caption = | birth_name = Edith Wall | birth_date = {{Birth date|1904|11|13|df=y}} | birth_place = Christchurch, New Zealand | death_date = {{Death date and age|2012|04|21|1904|11|13|df=y}} | death_place = Camberwell, Melbourne, Australia | residence = | movement = | spouse = Oscar Bayne | awards = Victorian Artists Society drawing prize (1956), Minnie Crouch prize from Bendigo Art Gallery (1971) | patrons = | field = Painting, cartoonist, printmaking | training = | works = }}
'''Edith Bayne''' (née '''Wall''', 13 November 1904 – 21 April 2012) was an artist born in New Zealand who also resided in Australia.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://findnzartists.org.nz/artist/15721/|title=Wall, Edith|website=findnzartists.org.nz|language=en|access-date=5 October 2017}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.smh.com.au/comment/obituaries/stylish-artist-with-taste-for-red-wine-and-chocolate-20120525-1zaji.html|title=Stylish artist with taste for red wine and chocolate|date=26 May 2012|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|access-date=5 October 2017|language=en-US}}</ref>
== Biography == Born Edith Wall in Christchurch, New Zealand, to Gypsy and Arnold Wall, her father was a professor and broadcaster.
Wall was an early member of The Group<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://findnzartists.org.nz/artists/exhibition/3/|title=Artists exhibited with The Group|website=findnzartists.org.nz|language=en|access-date=5 October 2017}}</ref> and exhibited with them in 1927, 1928, and 1947.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/about/library/the-group/group-1947|title=The Group 1947|website=christchurchartgallery.org.nz|access-date=5 October 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/heritage/publications/art/thegroup/bibliography/|title=The Group 1927 - 1977: an annotated bibliography - Heritage - Christchurch City Libraries|website=christchurchcitylibraries.com|language=en|access-date=5 October 2017}}</ref>
In the early 1940s, Wall moved to Sydney, Australia.<ref name=":0" /> Wall then traveled to attend the Sorbonne in Paris and also studied art in Rome and London.<ref name=":0" />
After moving to Sydney, Wall became a prolific cartoonist. She also taught art and exhibited in galleries in Melbourne and Sydney.<ref name=":0" />
In the final 1965 Melbourne Contemporary Art Society show, Wall was in the company of notable members and invitees who included their leader George Bell (who died the following year), Barbara Brash, Bill Coleman, Margaret Dredge, Dorothea Francis, Inez Hutchison, Maidie McGowan, Mary Macqueen, Anne Montgomery, Harry Rosengrave, Steven Spurrier, Roma Thompson, Dorothy Stephen, and Marjorie Woolcock.<ref>{{Citation |author1=Melbourne Contemporary Artists |title=Melbourne Contemporary Artists : Australian Gallery File |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/32484525 |access-date=28 November 2025}}</ref>
Over 6 March–30 April 1995, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery hosted ''Women on the walls: 1890s - 1990s'' showing Edith Wall works among those including A. M. E. Bale, Clarice Beckett, Barbara Brash, Lina Bryans, Ethel Carrick Fox, Mary Cecil Allen, Pegg Clarke, Amalie Colquhoun, Sybil Craig, Janet Cumbrae-Stewart, Aileen Dent, Margaret Baskerville, Nornie Gude, Norah Gurdon, Mary Macqueen, Marguerite Mahood, Maidie McGowan, Mary Meyer, Leopoldine Mimovich, Josephine Muntz Adams, Hilda Rix Nicholas, Helen Ogilvie, Ada May Plante, Clara Southern, Ethel Spowers, Dorothy Stephen, Constance Stokes, Eveline Syme, Violet Teague, Lesbia Thorpe, Jessie Traill, Edith Wall, Phyl Waterhouse, Dora Wilson, and Marjorie Woolcock.<ref>{{Cite book |author1=Peers|title=Women on the walls: 1890s - 1990s|publication-date=|publisher=Mornington Peninsula Regional Arts Centre|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/258897222|access-date=29 November 2025|year=1995|location=Mornington, Vic.|first=Juliet}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Women on the walls : 1890s - 1990s. at (1995 – ) · Australian Prints + Printmaking|url=https://www.printsandprintmaking.gov.au/exhibitions/12615/|website=www.printsandprintmaking.gov.au|access-date=2025-11-29}}</ref>
== Awards == In 1956 Wall received the Victorian Artists Society drawing prize, and in 1971 the Minnie Crouch Prize from the Art Gallery of Ballarat.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.daao.org.au/bio/edith-wall/personal_details/|title=Edith Wall|website=www.daao.org.au|language=en|access-date=5 October 2017}}</ref>
== Personal life == In the mid-1930s she married Oscar Bayne, an architect from Sydney. They had one child, Cosima, born in 1937. In 1951 they moved to Melbourne, Australia.<ref name=":0" />
== Collections ==
* National Gallery of Australia<ref>{{Cite web|title=Edith Wall - Search the Collection, National Gallery of Australia|url=https://searchthecollection.nga.gov.au/artist/14679/edith-wall|website=National Gallery of Australia|access-date=2025-11-29|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20230131231710/https://searchthecollection.nga.gov.au/artist/14679/edith-wall|archive-date=2023-01-31|language=en-AU}}</ref> * National Gallery of Victoria<ref>{{Cite web|title=Edith Wall|url=https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/artist/|website=National Gallery of Victoria|access-date=2025-11-29|language=en-AU}}</ref> * Art Gallery of Western Australia<ref>{{Cite web|title=Edith WALL|url=https://collection.artgallery.wa.gov.au/persons/8332/edith-wall|website=Art Gallery WA Collection Online|access-date=2025-11-29|language=en}}</ref> * Christchurch Art Gallery<ref>{{Cite web|title=Study Of A Woman Seated At A Table|url=https://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/collection/|website=christchurchartgallery.org.nz|access-date=2025-11-29|last=Wall|first=Edith}}</ref> * Auckland War Memorial Museum<ref>{{Cite web|title=Edith Wall|url=https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/collection/person/246912|website=Auckland War Memorial Museum|access-date=2025-11-29|language=en}}</ref>
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== Further reading == Artist files for Edith Wall are held at: * [http://findnzartists.org.nz/artists/artist-file/1/ E. H. McCormick Research Library, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki] * [http://findnzartists.org.nz/artists/artist-file/2/ Robert and Barbara Stewart Library and Archives, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu] * [http://findnzartists.org.nz/artists/artist-file/3/ Hocken Collections Uare Taoka o Hākena] Also see: * [http://findnzartists.org.nz/artists/publication/9/ Concise Dictionary of New Zealand Artists] McGahey, Kate (2000) Gilt Edge
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