Erica Baneth

{{Short description|Australian sculptor}}

Erica Marianna Baneth, née Foti, (1928– ) by 1968 known as Erica Baneth-Goodey,{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article263013520 |title=Art-Wise Fascinating Contrasts |newspaper=The Australian Jewish News |volume=XXXIV |issue=29 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=11 April 1968 |access-date=26 November 2023 |page=12 |via=National Library of Australia}} was an Australian sculptor, born in Budapest, Hungary.

History

Baneth was born in Budapest, Hungary, and emigrated to Australia in 1948.

By 1964 she was teaching at Mount Scopus Memorial College of Burwood, Victoria.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article265918676 |title=Won Art Award |newspaper=The Australian Jewish Herald |volume=47 |issue=25 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=6 March 1964 |access-date=26 November 2023 |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia}}

She studied at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology 1955–1959, Canberra Institute of Technology 1959–1962, National Gallery of Victoria (part time) 1963, Hammersmith School of Architecture and Arts 1966.

She taught at Monash University University in 1968, and around this time became known as Baneth-Goodey.

She married in 1977 and emigrated to Los Angeles.{{cite book|title=Encyclopedia of Australian Art |author=Alan McCulloch |publisher=Hutchinson |year=1984 |isbn=009148300X}}

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