Gwendoline Emily Spalding

  General Notes:

Name:Sydney Kenneth Lockwood Pratt
Gender:Male
Electoral Year:1943
Subdistrict:Punchbowl
State:New South Wales
District:Lang
Country:Australia
Residential Address: 32 Welfare Avenue, Beverly Hill
Occupation: Bread Carter
Others living at same address:
Pratt, Gwendoline Emily- home duties, .F
Ancestry.com. Australia, Electoral Rolls, 1903-1980 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.

Name:Sydney Kenneth Lcokwood Pratt
Electoral Year:1963
Subdistrict:Oatley
State:New South Wales
District:Barton
Country:Australia
Residential Address: 40 East Street Blakehurst
Occupation: Manufacturer
Others living at address
Pratt, Gwendoline Emily- home duties. F
Ancestry.com. Australia, Electoral Rolls, 1903-1980 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.

Name:Gwendoline Emily Pratt
Gender:Female
Electoral Year:1972
State:Australian Capital Territory
District:Australian Capital Territory
Country:Australia
Residential Address: 48 Parkhill St Prce 2607 hd f
Ancestry.com. Australia, Electoral Rolls, 1903-1980 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.

Canberra-based Australian artist and Archibald Prize finalist Gwen Pratt turns 100 on New Year's Eve
Doherty, Megan
29 Dec 2017
The Canberra Times
Modest and unassuming, Canberra artist Gwen Pratt has created portraits of outstanding Australians including painter Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri and Cyclone Tracy hero Major-General Alan Stretton. She was a finalist in the 1965 Archibald Prize with a portrait of fellow artist Douglas Pratt, a relative via marriage.
Her focus has resolutely been on others, but on New Year's Eve, 2017, the attention was inevitably switched to Mrs Pratt as she celebrated her 100th birthday with family and friends.
Her daughter, Val Johanson, of Williamsdale, said Mrs Pratt was born in Sydney at one minute to midnight on December 31, 1917.
"I think the doctors gave her mother the option of her being born on New Year's Eve or New Year's Day," Mrs Johanson said.
Mrs Pratt was the daughter of draughtsman, William, and homemaker, Emily, the middle daughter of three girls.
"All three daughters were creative," Mrs Johanson said. "Wynne, the eldest, was a photographer and Norma, the youngest, was a dress designer."
Known for her strong technical approach and ability to capture light and likeness, Mrs Pratt's fans extended far and wide, including to an art curator at the United States Embassy in Paris who declared in 2004: "Gwen's paintings are the best I have seen in Australia".
After winning a National Art Award at the age of 12, Mrs Pratt began art lessons with JS Watkins, and then at the Julian Ashton school from 1956 to 1961 with Henry Gibbons. She studied at the Royal Art Society of NSW and privately with Douglas Pratt and Joshua Smith.
Mrs Pratt was one of the first female artists to be elected as a fellow of the Royal Art Society of NSW, in 1971.
Portraiture was her first love, with commissions to paint everyone from the wife of a Greek ambassador to Mercedes Benz Australia managing director Allan Cheetham. Her painting of Major-General Stretton is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery.
The portrait of artist Douglas Pratt by his relative via marriage, Gwen Pratt, a finalist in the 1965 Archibald Prize.
"I think she just found people fascinating," Mrs Johanson said.
It was a visit to stay with her niece, who was living on a mission station at Papunya, in the Northern Territory, which brought Mrs Pratt into contact with Aboriginal painters Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri and Keith Namatjira. They allowed Mrs Pratt to paint their portrait.
Canberra artist Gwen Pratt with her daughter Val Johanson (far right), grand-daughter Sharon Charles, great-grandson Ben Charles and great-great grand-daughter Gracie Charles.

"I understand from conversations with my cousin that mum got on very well with them and was accepted by them," Mrs Johanson said.
Also a mother to three daughters, Mrs Pratt moved to Canberra in 1970. Her husband, Ken, had died aged 51, leaving her to raise her girls alone.
Mrs Pratt lived in Parkhill Street, Pearce and then moved out to Williamsdale to a farm with Mrs Johanson and her family.
"She loved the farm, loved the animals, the garden," her daughter said.
Canberra artist Gwen Pratt was sought after for her portraits.
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/act/canberrabased-australian-artist-and-archibald-prize-finalist-gwen-pratt-turns-100-on-new-years-eve-20171229-h0b8ne.html (Accessed 27 July 2018)

Gwendoline married Sydney Kenneth Lockwood Pratt, son of William Herbert Pratt and Emily Jane Lockwood, in 1939 in Mogarah, New South Wales, Australia.²²⁰ (Sydney Kenneth Lockwood Pratt was born in 1915 in Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia ²²¹ and died on 17 Jun 1967 in St Leonards, New South Wales, Australia ²²².)

  Marriage Notes:

Name:Sydney Kenneth Lockwood Pratt
Spouse Name:Gwendolene Emily Spalding
Marriage Date:1939
Marriage Place:New South Wales
Registration Place:Mogarah, New South Wales
Registration Year:1939
Registration Number:4096
Ancestry.com. Australia, Marriage Index, 1788-1950 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.