May Grigg
Australian artist
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Mabel "May" Grigg (1885–1969),[1] was an Australian painter. She won the Alexander Melrose Prize for portraiture in 1921 and 1922.[2]
Biography
Grigg was born in 1885 in Hindmarsh, South Australia, the third of five daughters of Rachel Grigg, née Worthley, and Thomas Grigg,[2] a noted violinist, conductor and music teacher. May studied at the South Australian School of Design in Adelaide. Her teachers included Harry Gill and Hans Heysen.[2]
Grigg was a council member at the Royal South Australian Society of Arts.[2] Grigg had a career as a teacher. She was senior art mistress at Ballarat Technical Art School[3] and the South Australian School of Arts and Crafts.[4]
Grigg died in 1969[5] in Adelaide.[2]
Her sister Etta Grigg was an accomplished viola player.
