Mora, Mirka (1928-)

Also known as
Mora, Mirka Madeleine (1928-)
Field of activity
Artist; Painting; Textile; painter, doll maker, embroiderer; restaurateur
Libraries Australia
http://nla.gov.au/anbd.aut-an35703747
NLA Persistent Identifier
http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-557842

Biographies

In 1998 Mora was awarded the title of Honoured Artist, by the Lord Mayor and councillors of the City of Melbourne, 'in recognition of lifelong achievement in the arts which has made an outstanding contribution to the life of this city'. Born in Paris France, Mora with her husband Georges and son Philippe arrived in Australia in 1951. Over time their cafes and restaurants, The Mirka Café, the Balzac and the Tolarno were renowned for the bohemian style of the time. In 1999, a retrospective of her work was shown at Heide Museum of Modern Art and her autobiography Wicked but Virtuous: My Life was published in October 2000. (Source: http://www.moragalleries.com.au/artists/mirka.html accessed 18/02/02; http://www.evabreuerartdealer.com.au/mora.html accessed 18/02/02; http://www.bhpsteel.com/bhp/stee…/objectID.02003D4D-17FD-11D5-98CA00508BA5461 accessed 18/02/02 and http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/s199439.htm accessed 18/02/02.)

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Exuberant continental immigrant artist - with her husband Georges, brought life and energy to the Melbourne art and restaurant scene of the 1950's.

painter, doll maker, embroiderer, was born in Paris; she came to Melbourne with her husband Georges Mora in 1951. This artist's biography is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.

Flourished

  • fl. 1951-2006

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Resources for Mirka Mora

Selected resources (4)

Australian Women's Register

  1. Contemporary Australian Women 1996/97
    [1996]
    Published: Reed Reference Australia
  2. Who's who of Australian women
    Lofthouse, Andrea
    [1982]
    Published: Methuen Australia
  3. Who's who in Australia 2002
    Herd, Margaret
    [2002]
    Published: Crown Content
  4. National Film and Sound Archive: The Good Looker: Mirka Mora Interview, Source Material
    Transcript of interview with Mirka Mora discussing Joy Hester, art and art education in Melbourne.
    517618

Resources by Mirka Mora (20)

  1. Wicked but virtuous : my life / Mirka Mora
    Mora, Mirka, 1928-
    [ Book, Audio book : 2000-2003 ]
    At 102 libraries
    Wicked but virtuous : my life / Mirka Mora
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 81.839)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 81.839)

  2. Love and clutter / Mirka Mora ; photography by Earl Carter
    Mora, Mirka, 1928-
    [ Book : 2003 ]
    At 67 libraries
    Love and clutter / Mirka Mora ; photography by Earl Carter
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 59.681)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 59.681)

  3. Mirka Mora : where angels fear to tread : 50 years of art 1948 - 1998 / compiled by Max Delany and Murray White
    Mora, Mirka, 1928-
    [ Book : 1999 ]
    At 17 libraries
    Mirka Mora : where angels fear to tread : 50 years of art 1948 - 1998 / compiled by Max Delany and  Murray White
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 30.459)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 30.459)

  4. Mirka's colouring book no.one / Mirka Mora
    Mora, Mirka, 1928-
    [ Book : 1970 ]
    At UQ Library
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 23.054)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 23.054)

  5. My Italian heart : recipes from an Italian kitchen / Guy Grossi ; photography by Adrian Lander ; illustrations by Mirka Mora
    Grossi, Guy, 1965-
    [ Book : 2005-2011 ]
    At 45 libraries
    My Italian heart : recipes from an Italian kitchen / Guy Grossi ; photography by Adrian Lander ; illustrations by Mirka Mora
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 22.083)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 22.083)

  6. Mirka Mora : works 1957-1987 : [exhibition held] William Mora Galleries, Melbourne
    Mora, Mirka, 1928-
    [ Book : 1987 ]
    At Nat Gall Aus Res
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 21.589)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 21.589)

  7. Mirka Mora : works 1957-1987
    Mora, Mirka, 1928-
    [ Book : 1987 ]
    At 2 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 20.138)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 20.138)

  8. Australian Alps : Mirka's palace of dreams / written & directed by David Greig ; produced by David Morgan
    Kestrel Films (Australia)
    [ Video : 1987-1989 ]
    At 9 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 19.425)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 19.425)

  9. Mirka
    Mora, Mirka, 1928-
    [ Video : 1974-1988 ]
    At 7 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 18.631)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 18.631)

  10. Mirka / [exhibition curator Kendrah Morgan]
    Mora, Mirka, 1928-
    [ Book : 2010 ]
    At 4 libraries
    Mirka / [exhibition curator Kendrah Morgan]
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 18.594)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 18.594)

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Resources about Mirka Mora (31)

  1. Wicked but virtuous : my life / Mirka Mora
    Mora, Mirka, 1928-
    [ Book, Audio book : 2000-2003 ]
    At 102 libraries
    Wicked but virtuous : my life / Mirka Mora
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 79.407)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 79.407)

  2. Love and clutter / Mirka Mora ; photography by Earl Carter
    Mora, Mirka, 1928-
    [ Book : 2003 ]
    At 67 libraries
    Love and clutter / Mirka Mora ; photography by Earl Carter
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 58.394)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 58.394)

  3. Mirka Mora : where angels fear to tread : 50 years of art 1948 - 1998 / compiled by Max Delany and Murray White
    Mora, Mirka, 1928-
    [ Book : 1999 ]
    At 17 libraries
    Mirka Mora : where angels fear to tread : 50 years of art 1948 - 1998 / compiled by Max Delany and  Murray White
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 30.283)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 30.283)

  4. Mirka's colouring book no.one / Mirka Mora
    Mora, Mirka, 1928-
    [ Book : 1970 ]
    At UQ Library
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 23.599)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 23.599)

  5. Mirka Mora : works 1957-1987 : [exhibition held] William Mora Galleries, Melbourne
    Mora, Mirka, 1928-
    [ Book : 1987 ]
    At Nat Gall Aus Res
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 22.178)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 22.178)

  6. Mirka / text by Ulli Beier ; photographs by Paul Cox
    Beier, Ulli, 1922-2011
    [ Book : 1980 ]
    At 49 libraries
    Mirka / text by Ulli Beier ; photographs by Paul Cox
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 21.339)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 21.339)

  7. Mirka Mora : works 1957-1987
    Mora, Mirka, 1928-
    [ Book : 1987 ]
    At 2 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 19.672)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 19.672)

  8. Australian Alps : Mirka's palace of dreams / written & directed by David Greig ; produced by David Morgan
    Kestrel Films (Australia)
    [ Video : 1987-1989 ]
    At 9 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 18.926)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 18.926)

  9. Mirka
    Mora, Mirka, 1928-
    [ Video : 1974-1988 ]
    At 7 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 18.509)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 18.509)

  10. Mirka / [exhibition curator Kendrah Morgan]
    Mora, Mirka, 1928-
    [ Book : 2010 ]
    At 4 libraries
    Mirka / [exhibition curator Kendrah Morgan]
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 18.488)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 18.488)

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    The Borderlands trope and Chicana otherness in the poetry of Pat Mora and Lorna Dee Cervantes / Mirka Pohjanrinne
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    In context : Australian women modernists, Nancy Borlase, Jacqueline Hick, Erica McGilchrist, Mirka Mora, Barbara Robertson, Elsa Russell / curated by Paula Furby
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  2. CLASSIC LNL: Mirka Mora
    Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Radio National
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    This resource may have relevance to your query (score: 0.526)

  3. Georges Mora interviewed by Barbara Blackman
    Mora, Georges, 1913-1992
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    This resource may be of limited relevance to your query (score: 0.333)

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    Hope, Laurence, 1928-
    [ Sound : 1974 ]
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    This resource may be of limited relevance to your query (score: 0.118)

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  1. Mirka Mora's 50 years of art [Interview with artist, Mirka Mora by Langsam, David]
    Mora, Mirka
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    [ Article : 1999 ]
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    This resource is likely to be relevant to your query (score: 0.722)

  2. Mora the same. -Artist Mirka Mora-
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    This resource may have relevance to your query (score: 0.404)

    This resource may have relevance to your query (score: 0.404)

  3. A hard act to follow. -Artist, Mirka Mora-
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    This resource may have relevance to your query (score: 0.327)

    This resource may have relevance to your query (score: 0.327)

  4. Mirka Mora: icons, memory and metamorphosis
    Hart, Deborah
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    [ Article, Photograph : 1999 ]
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    This resource may have relevance to your query (score: 0.324)

  1. 'The essential woman'
    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Tuesday 6 April 1954 p 8 Article Illustrated
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  2. Current events
    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Friday 26 March 1954 p 10 Article
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  3. Woman's Page 20 WOMEN EXHIBIT IN SOCIETY SHOW
    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Wednesday 11 May 1955 p 10 Article Illustrated
    ... . -. / Woman's Page 9 British actor, Sir Ralph Richardson, and artist Mirka Mora discuss one of the paintings at the Contemporary Art Society of Australia's exhibition, which opened yesterday. 20 ... yesterday's opening were Mirka Mora, whose hus band, George, is secretary ' of the Society; sculptresses ... 223 words
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    This resource may have relevance to your query (score: 0.017)