ILF Charity Christmas Card Pack – Clarice Beckett Blue Island Press

Give a little extra love this Christmas with our beautiful selection of affordable card packs that support some great Australian charities. In this case, your purchase of a pack helps to support the great work of the Indigenous Literacy Foundation

• Card size is 125 x 125 mm (complies with Australia Post’s Christmas card rates).
• Cards are blank inside for your personalised message.
• This pack contains 8 cards  (4 each of two designs).

The Artist –

Clarice Beckett (1887-1935) was an Australian Tonalist painter whose lyrical and evocative work celebrated modernity, and the quiet beauty of the city and suburbs. Her work was challenging for its time, and Beckett’s story as an artist who never compromised her unique vision and someone who continued to paint ‘against the odds’ is compelling and inspirational while also being moving and poignant. Following her death in 1935 at the age of 48, Beckett’s work, which had achieved some measure of success during her lifetime, was all but forgotten. It was not until the1970s, when a large group of works abandoned in a hay shed in rural Victoria were found and subsequently mounted in an exhibition, that her contribution began to be reappraised. Beckett is now regarded as one of Australia’s most important and influential modernist painters and in 2021 the Art Gallery of South Australia mounted a major retrospective of her work. 

The Charity –

The Indigenous Literacy Foundation is a national book industry charity, which aims to reduce the disadvantage experienced by children in remote Indigenous communities across Australia, by lifting literacy levels and instilling a lifelong love of reading. 

Published by Blue Island Press, Sydney and a percentage of all sales of this pack is donated to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation.