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Phyllis Margaret Cilento (23 December 1923 – 21 November 2006) was an Australian painter and printmaker. Biography. Cilento was born in Sydney, Australia on 23 December 1923. She studied at East Sydney Technical College. In 1947, Cilento went to New York on a Travelling Scholarship.
- Painting, printmaking
- 21 November 2006 (aged 82), Melbourne, Australia
- Phyllis Margaret Cilento, 23 December 1923, Sydney, Australia
- East Sydney Technical College
Margaret Cilento was the eldest daughter and second child born to Sir Raphael and Lady Phyllis Cilento, both prominent doctors and policy advocates in Australia. Cilento suffered from deafness as a child, which contributed to her early gravitation toward the visual arts.
Margaret Cilento (born Phyllis Margaret Cilento), painter, printmaker, illustrator and designer, was born in Sydney, Australia on December 23, 1923. She grew up in Brisbane but moved to Sidney in 1943.
Margaret Cilento. Margaret Cilento was born in Sydney in 1923. She spent her early life in Brisbane, returning to Sydney in 1943 to attend the East Sydney Technical School. In 1947 Cilento travelled to the United States to join her parents and to continue her studies.
painter and printmaker, eldest daughter of Sir Raphael and Lady (Phyllis) Cilento, was born on 23 December 1923 in Sydney but brought up in Brisbane. Margaret went to school at Somerville House when Caroline Barker was art mistress there.
As a child, Margaret Cilento travelled with her family to Papua New Guinea before settling in Brisbane in 1928. During the 1930s, she studied at Somerville House and Brisbane’s Central Technical College while attending art classes run by Caroline Barker.
Moorooka has become a centre for African and central Asian refugees and migrants over the past decade, amplifying the vibrant energy that Margaret Cilento captured in her painting Sunday in Moorooka in 1952.
