Helen Ogilvie

Helen Elizabeth Ogilvie was born 4 May 1902 in Corowa and grew up in surrounding rural New South Wales where she would go sketching with her mother, Henrietta, a watercolourist, before her family moved to Melbourne in 1920. There Helen attended the National Gallery School in 1922–25 though she did not enjoy its conservative approach and prescriptive teaching methods. In her last year her style was influenced by George Bell while he briefly was the drawing master.Amelia Saward, 'Helen Ogilvie: Australian modernism and a changing sense of place,' in {{Cite web|last=Younger|first=Gavin|date=2019-07-17|title=Issue 23, December 2018|url=https://museumsandcollections.unimelb.edu.au/research_and_publications/university_of_melbourne_collections_magazine/issue-23,-december-2018|access-date=2020-10-12|website=Museums and Collections|language=en}} While at the school she became a member of the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors and started exhibiting in 1924.

Inspired by seeing a book of Claude Flight's Modernist linocuts in 1928,{{Cite web|last=Maxwell|first=Helen|date=1995|title=Helen Elizabeth Ogilvie biography|url=https://www.daao.org.au/bio/helen-elizabeth-ogilvie/biography/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=Design and Art Australia Online}} Ogilvie produced many linocuts and woodcuts from the 1930s onwards.{{Cite book|last=Ogilvie, Helen, 1902–1993.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38359628|title=Wood engravings|date=1995|publisher=Brindabella Press|isbn=0-909422-24-9|location=Canberra|oclc=38359628}} Her work in a 1932 group show is praised, with that of other exhibitors, for skills in cutting and "an intimate artistic facility for illustrative design". She was one of many women artists who took up relief printing but, unlike Eveline Syme and Ethel Spowers, Ogilvie could not afford to study it overseas, and when she took up wood engraving in the 1930s it was her friend, the artist and printmaker Eric Thake who provided instruction.{{Cite book |last=McLaren |first=Julie |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1101996633 |title=Becoming Modern : Australian women artists 1920–1950 |last2=Tegart |first2=Louise |date=24 May 2019 |publisher=Art Gallery of Ballarat |isbn=978-0-648-45802-9 |location=Ballarat, VIC |oclc=1101996633}} She focussed on subject matter familiar to her, including farm animals, rural landscapes and Australian flora and fauna. Curator Sheridan Palmer in the catalogue for a 1995 Art Gallery of Ballarat retrospective described her as;

{{quote|"a fiercely independent and resourceful woman, who was sophisticated in a simple way. She could turn her hand to many things, creating out of basic materials objects which suited her needs at the time."}}

She exhibited frequently, but in an effort to survive in the Depression years she also produced bookplates,{{Citation | title=Under the covers.(Spectrum) | journal=The Age (Melbourne, Australia) | publication-date=2015-12-05 | publisher=Fairfax Media Publications Pty Limited | pages=18 | issn=0312-6307}} greeting cards,'Original art on Christmas cards,' The Age Thursday 23 Dec 1954, p.5'Hand-designed',The Age, Thursday 27 Oct 1955, p.10 and calendars.The Age, Tuesday 26 Dec 1933, p.5 In 1933 she showed in a joint exhibition with printmaker Anne Montgomery.

She enjoyed good connections at Melbourne University and the National Gallery of Victoria, with art historians Joseph Burke, Ursula Hoff, and with Russell Grimwade, producing illustrations for the latter's book Flinders Lane: recollections of Alfred Felton (Melbourne University Press,Carlton, 1947)'The story of a benefactor', The Sydney Morning Herald Saturday, 10 Jan 1948, p.8 and Sir John Medley's Stolne and surreptitious verses (Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 1952).Illustrations mentioned in Peter Ryan review 'A well-carved cherry-stone', of a memoir of Medley by Geoffrey Serle and John Marginson in The Age, Saturday 21 Aug 1993, p.151 Buttons bearing her designs were sold for a shilling to raise funds for the 1955 building program at Melbourne University.The Age Monday 25 Apr 1955, p.2

During WW2 and after, Ogilvie worked in the Red Cross Rehabilitation Service at Heidelberg Military Hospital under Frances Wade, where she taught patients lino- and wood-cutting, and basketmaking using locally harvested European and Australian native rushes.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article47225964 |title=Interesting People |newspaper=The Australian Women's Weekly |volume=10 |issue=45 |location=Australia |date=10 April 1943 |accessdate=12 October 2020 |page=14 |via=National Library of Australia}}'Craftwork for soldiers,' The Age Saturday, 14 Nov 1942, p.4'Rushes ready for basketmaking,' The Age Tuesday 28 Dec 1943, p.3 In 1948 Ogilvie, assisted by Helen Biggs, set up a school to train handicrafts instructors for Red Cross occupational therapy services.'Handcrafts school to open,' The Age Tuesday 20 Jan 1948, p.5

Ogilvie was a generous mentor of emerging artists, and in 1949 Stanley Coe appointed her as one of Australia's first women gallery directors to create a commercial exhibition space on the upper floor of his interior design shop at 435 Bourke Street, Melbourne.'New gallery' The Age Wednesday 07 Dec 1949, p.7 Artist Tate Adams dubbed it "the lone beacon in town for contemporary art."{{Citation | author1=Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery | title=From Tuesday to Tuesday | publication-date=2006 | publisher=Mornington, Victoria | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/235632394 | access-date=16 October 2020}} For the period until 1955, and with advice from her friends Ursula Hoff, Arnold Shore and Alan McCulloch, she organised a program of exhibitions of the avant-garde;{{Citation | author1=Palmer Bull, Sheridan | title=Intersecting cultures : European influences in the fine arts : Melbourne 1940–1960 | publication-date=2004 | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/19586288 | access-date=15 October 2020}}{{cite news|date=16 July 1952|title=Young people buy pictures|page=6|newspaper=The Argus|issue=33,031|location=Melbourne|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article23185365|via=National Library of Australia}} John Brack,Shore, Arnold (1955). 'Artist stresses human values'. (8 March 1955). The Argus (Melbourne, Victoria: 1848–1957), p. 13. Retrieved 8 July 2015, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71637449 Margo Lewers, Leonard French (who showed his Illiad series, amongst his earliest experiments with enamel house paint on Masonite, October 1952),Johnson, George & Heathcote, C. R. (Christopher Robin) & Zimmer, Jenny, (editor.) (2006). George Johnson : world view. South Yarra, Vic. Macmillan Art Publishing Inge King,Inge King's art has "the gadget air". (21 October 1952). The Argus (Melbourne, Victoria: 1848–1957), p. 5. Retrieved 8 July 2015, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article23217241 Arthur Boyd, Charles Blackman (whose radical 'schoolgirl' series was shown there in May 1953), Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack (whose first Australian show in a commercial gallery was there in 1953), Helen Maudsley, Clifton Pugh,{{cite news|date=21 June 1955|title=Four art styles|page=9|newspaper=The Argus|location=Melbourne|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71889225|via=National Library of Australia}} Michael Shannon and others.

The opening show in February 1950 of a group twenty Victorian artists associated with George Bell, whose work was also shown, included Alan Warren, Alan Sumner, Constance Stokes, Roger Kemp, William Frater, Charles Bush, Daryl Lindsay, Phyl Waterhouse, Ada May Plante, Francis Roy Thompson, and Arnold Shore,'Show by twenty Victorian artists,' The Age Tuesday 14 Feb 1950, p.2 and was followed by a survey show of contemporary art from Sydney. The National Gallery of Victoria purchased important contemporary works from Stanley Coe Gallery between 1950 and 1963. In 1954 however, the dominance of the gallery for emerging artists was being challenged, a fact signalled by the Contemporary Art Society's massive exhibition at Tye's Gallery at 100 Burke Street in 1954 and the ascendancy of their Gallery of Contemporary Art on Flinders Street.

During her period as gallery director, work by Ogilvie was among others selected in 1950 to decorate the liner Oronsay,'Australian art will decorate new Oronsay,' The Sydney Morning Herald Thursday 26 Oct 1950, p.6 and in 1954 her work was show together with that of Tate Adams and Kenneth Hood at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, encouraging her change of attention to Europe and back to her own art-making.

After moving on from her directorship, Ogilvie's own oil paintings of abandoned country structures were shown in 1956 at the gallery, which had been renamed the Peter Bray.The Age Tuesday 10 Apr 1956, p.2 She had firmly established her reputation in Australia, with works already acquired by Hoff for the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, and had purchased a house in South Yarra.'Artist home after six years abroad', The Age Saturday 22 Jun 1963, p.8 That year she moved to London, where she was engaged with the Crafts Revival of the 1950s and 60s and because, as she joked in an interview, "art doesn't pay", she made a living designing modernist lampshades of Japanese papers and parchment for a period, selling them to the high society customers of interior designer David Hicks, of Knightsbridge and Oxfordshire.

During her stay overseas, she visited and sketched the English countryside, and with Melbourne friend Hattie Alexander, described as her 'companion', toured Italy over 11 weeks.Interview, 'Australian plans London art show', The Age Friday 05 Jun 1959, p.8 Though she produced sketches of European sites, she did not exhibit them but continued to paint small studies of Australian rural buildings, from memory and from sketches, holding two successful solo exhibitions of them in London, including one of 34 canvases, which sold out.

Ogilvie returned to Australia in 1963 where the subjects of her paintings and drawings continued to be humble rural buildings which she was aware were disappearing; in an interview she bemoaned the lack of protection given such relics in Australia, compared to the UK. While many Australian artists continued to follow European and international trends, Ogilvie devoted her art to Australian subjects, determined to create a new tradition of Australian printmaking and artistic practice. Reception of her paintings in Australia however, as opposed to her earlier prints, was lukewarm; Donald Brook in reviewing her 1968 Macquarie Galleries solo describes them as 'sweet and stiff'.Donald Brook, 'Painters demonstrate', The Sydney Morning Herald Thursday 03 Oct 1968, p.9 By the late 1970s she was producing little work but remained interested in the art world. The last of her solo exhibitions that she was able to attend opened at aGOG (Australian Girls' Own Gallery), Canberra, on her 89th birthday, 4 May 1991.

Ogilvie died suddenly in Melbourne on 1 August 1993.

Critical response to Ogilvie's work was sparse, limited mainly to the prints and to vague praise or her 'fine impressions in line and colour' or of lino-cutting skills, 'the work of a sound craftsman [sic]', 'decorative' and with a sense of colour that is 'agreeable and harmonious'. By the time of curator Sheridan Palmer's touring Ballarat Art Gallery Ogilvie 1995 retrospective, The Age critic Robert Nelson in his review highlighted;

{{quote|"the artist's deficiencies in painting which were already noted in her years at the Gallery School in Melbourne. Ogilvie's floral works in linocut show decorative flair, but this late flowering of the ornament of the '20s won't win Ogilvie a place among the mighty."Robert Nelson, 'Neglected artist evaluated', The Age Wednesday 5 Oct 1995, p.26}}

Nevertheless, her work, especially her printmaking, has since enjoyed a renewed interest and reevaluation, and has featured in seven major surveys of Australian women's art (see section 'Posthumous exhibitions', below).

• 1948, May: Exhibition of watercolour drawingsThe AgeWednesday, 19 May 1948, p.5
• 1956, April: Paintings, Peter Bray Gallery, Melbourne
• 1963, February/March: Australian Country Dwellings, shown with The Landscapes of Lucien Pissarro at Leicester Galleries Gallery, Audley Sq., Mayfair, Londoncatalogue, Helen Ogilvie: Australian country dwellings, London: Leicester Galleries, 1963The Observer Sunday 10 Mar 1963, p.27
• 1967, March: Leicester Galleries, Audley Sq., Mayfair, London
• 1967, October: Helen Ogilvie Paintings, Leveson Street Gallery, North MelbourneListing, The Age, Friday 09 Oct 1970, p.15
• 1968, September: joint solo with David Rose, Macquarie Galleries, SydneyListing, The Sydney Morning Herald, Saturday 28 Sep 1968, p.206
• 1970, 15-26 October: "Australian Country Buildings" Leveson Street Gallery
• 1972, from 3 May: Macquarie Galleries (joint solo with Nancy Borlase)Listing, The Sydney Morning Herald Sunday, 30 Apr 1972, p.107
• 1974, 2–13 June: Leveson Street Gallery, Melbourne.{{Citation | author1=Ogilvie, Helen | author2=Leveson Street Gallery | title=Helen Ogilvie | date=1974 | publisher=Leveson Street Gallery | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/171970965}}
• 1979, 11–30 July: solo alongside Trevor Weekes and Denese Oates, Macquarie GalleriesListing, The Sydney Morning Herald, Monday 9 July 1979, p.10
• 1982, 1 October – 31 October: Project 39: Women's imprint, part of Women and the Arts Festival, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales
• 1991, May 1991: Australian Girls Own Gallery, Canberra, ACT{{Citation | author1=Ogilvie, Helen | author2=aGOG Australian Girls Own Gallery | title=Helen Ogilvie : aGOG 4 May to 23 May 1991 | date=1991 | publisher=aGOG | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/12448676 | access-date=14 October 2020}}

• 1924, 18–27 November: An Exhibition Of Etchings & Drawings, with Hans Heysen, John D. Moor, Lionel Lindsay, John Goodchild, John L. Berry, Frank H. Molony, R. J. Waterhouse, Fred. C. Britten, Lloyd Rees, d’A. Boxall, J. Barclay Godson, Arthur Reed, H. Van Raake, B. E. Minns, Harold D. Herbert, James S. MacDonald, Norman Carter, Thea Proctor, Alfred T. Clint, Margaret Preston, A. Henry Fullwood, Raymond H. McGrath, Don Finley, Hamilton Mack, Adrian Feint, F. M. Grey, Montague White, Audrey Hardy, K. Sauerbier, Professor Leslie Wilkinson, Hardy Wilson, Daryl Lindsay, Sydney Ure Smith.Advertisement, The Sydney Morning Herald, Tue, Nov 18, 1924, p.6 Exhibition Hall, Sixth Floor, Farmer & Company, department store, cnr. Pitt, Market & George Streets, Sydney
• 1932, 5–16 April: with Sybil Andrews, Cyril Power, Ethel Spowers, Eveline Syme, Eric Thake, John Dick, Christian Waller, Dorrit Block, Ron Meadows, Marjorie Wood, Michael O’Connell. Everyman's Library, 332 Collins Street’Designs in Lino Cut’, The Age, Tue, Apr 5, 1932, p.8
• 1932, to 29 October: Helen Ogilvie, Peggie Crombie, Helen Boyd, paintings and prints. Collins House, Melbourne.'Exhibition at Collins House,' The Age, Tue, Oct 25, 1932, p.5
• 1933: New Melbourne Art Club exhibition, Sedon Galleries, Melbourne {{Citation | author1=New Melbourne Art Club (Melbourne, Vic.) | title=[New Melbourne Art Club (Melbourne, Vic.) : Australian Gallery File] | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/32484986 | access-date=16 October 2020}}
• 1933, 16–23 October: The Arts and Crafts Society Annual Exhibition, Melbourne Town Hall'The Arts and Crafts Society: Annual Exhibition,' The Age, Monday 16 Oct 1933, p.5
• 1934, The centenary art exhibition, Commonwealth Bank Chambers, 367 Collins Street, Melbourne.{{Citation | author1=Centenary Art Exhibition (1934: Melbourne) | title=[Centenary Art Exhibition (1934: Melbourne) : Australian Gallery File] | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/32483049 | access-date=16 October 2020}}
• 1936: Painter-Etchers and Graphic Art Society of Australia, David Jones Art Gallery{{Citation | author1=David Jones Art Gallery | author2=David Jones Art Gallery | title=[David Jones' Art Gallery : Australian Gallery File] | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/32483299 | access-date=16 October 2020}}
• 1936, 14–25 July: New Melbourne Art Club exhibition, Athenaeum Gallery'The modern spirit,' The Age, Tuesday 14 Jul 1936, p.9
• 1936, 15 April-1 May: Exhibition of paintings, Stair Gallery, 117 Collins Street, Melbourne{{Citation | author1=Stair Gallery | title=[Stair Gallery : Australian Gallery File] | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/32485573 | access-date=16 October 2020}}
• 1937, from 12 July: New Melbourne Art Club exhibition, Athenaeum Gallery'New Melbourne Art Club's Exhibition', The Age, Tuesday 13 Jul 1937, p.3
• 1939, 21 August – 2 September: New Melbourne Art Club Seventh Annual Show'New Melbourne Art Club: Seventh Annual Show,' The Age Tuesday 22 Aug 1939, p.11
• 1949, February 22-March 4: Exhibition of pictures by Australian artists and loan collection of Indian art, in aid of University Women's College Building Appeal,. Tye's Gallery, 100 Bourke Street, Melbourne{{Citation | author1=Tye's Gallery | author2=Tye's Gallery | title=[Tye's Gallery : Australian Gallery File] | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/32485771 | access-date=16 October 2020}}
• 1949, 5 – 13 November: Fern Tree Gully Arts Society, Sixth annual exhibition.{{Citation | author1=Fern Tree Gully Arts Society | title=[Fern Tree Gully Arts Society : Australian Gallery File] | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/32483543 | access-date=16 October 2020}}
• 1953, October: Flowerdale CWA annual exhibitionThe Age Saturday 24 Oct 1953, p.9
• 1954, November: Helen Ogilvie, Tate Adams, Kenneth Hood, Victoria and Albert Museum, LondonThe Age Friday 19 Nov 1954, p.4
• 1954: with Braund, Blackman, Brack, Shannon, Nine Victorian Artists, Peter Bay Gallery.'Nine Artists exhibition', The Age Wednesday 24 Feb 1954, p.2
• 1956, June: with Dorothy Braund, Barbara Brash, Guelda Pyke, Roma Thomson, Phyl Waterhouse, and six male artists, Paintings for Seven Guineas, Peter Bray GalleryThe Age Thursday 14 Jun 1956, p.8
• 1958: Crouch Prize exhibition, Art Gallery of Ballarat{{Citation | author1=Crouch Prize | title=[Crouch Prize : Australian Gallery File] | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/32484312 | access-date=16 October 2020}}
• 1964, August: with Lady Williams (President) Geoff Jones, Guelda Pyke, Edith Wall, Bill Coleman, Dorothy Braund, Guelda Gude, Madge Freeman-Davis, and others of the Melbourne Contemporary Artists, Argus Gallery'Exhibition of modern art', The Age, Tuesday 25 Aug 1964, p.14
• 1965, 28 February-11 March: Leveson Street Art Gallery, corner of Leveson and Victoria Streets, North Melbourne
• 1967, 26 February-9 March: Leveson Street Art Gallery, corner of Leveson and Victoria Streets, North Melbourne
• 1973, March: Leveson Street Art Gallery, corner of Leveson and Victoria Streets, North Melbourne{{Citation | author1=Leveson Street Gallery | author2=Leveson Street Gallery | title=[Leveson Street Gallery : Australian Gallery File] | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/32484730 | access-date=16 October 2020}}
• 1974, March 3–21: Leveson Street Art Gallery, corner of Leveson and Victoria Streets, North Melbourne{{Citation | author1=Ogilvie, Helen | author2=Leveson Street Gallery | title=Helen Ogilvie | publication-date=1974 | publisher=Leveson Street Gallery | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/171970965 | access-date=16 October 2020}}
• 1974, 26 September: Association for the Blind – Springfield Art Show{{Citation | author1=Association for the Blind | title=[Association for the Blind : Australian Gallery File] | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/32482593 | access-date=16 October 2020}}
• 1975, 7 November-23 November: Deutsher Galleries opening exhibition – a collection of 19th & 20th century European & Australian paintings, drawings & graphics{{Citation | author1=Deutsher Galleries | author2=Deutsher Galleries | title=[Deutsher Galleries : Australian Gallery File] | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/32483762 | access-date=16 October 2020}}
• 1977, April 2: Exhibition marking the opening of 'Important Women Artists Gallery', 13 Emo Road, Malvern East, Victoria{{Citation | author1=Important Women Artists [Gallery] | title=[Important Women Artists [Gallery]. : Australian Gallery File] | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/32484034 | access-date=16 October 2020}}
• 1978, 1 April-7 May: Cicadas and gumnuts – The Society of Arts and Crafts 1906–1935, Art Gallery of New South Wales{{Citation | author1=Society of Arts & Crafts of N.S.W | title=[Society of Arts & Crafts of N.S.W : Australian Gallery File] | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/32485420 | access-date=16 October 2020}}
• 1979, 16 February-4 March: inaugural exhibition Murray Crescent Galleries, 35 Murray Crescent, Manuka, Australian Capital Territory{{Citation | author1=Murray Crescent Galleries (Canberra, A.C.T.) | title=[Murray Crescent Galleries (Canberra, A.C.T.) : Australian Gallery File] | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/32484862 | access-date=16 October 2020}}
• 1980, 21–23 November: Ogilvie works included amongst 600 items purchased for the National Gallery of Victoria by the Gallery Society from 1949–1980 which were offered for sale at an Art Mart, Caulfield Arts Centre.{{Citation | author1=Art Mart | title=[Art Mart : Australian Gallery File] | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/32483536 | access-date=16 October 2020}}
• 1981/2, Nov. 1981 – Jan. 1982: with Christopher Croft, Janet Dawson, Ruth Faerber, Dusan Marek, Clifton Pugh, Lloyd Rees, Udo Sellbach, Michael Shannon, Guy Warren. Tasmania visited, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.{{Citation | author1=Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery | author2=Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery | title=[Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery : Australian Gallery File] | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/32485677 | access-date=16 October 2020}}
• 1982, 27 November-5 December: Artbank purchase exhibition held in conjunction with the Victorian Artists' Society{{Citation | author1=Artbank (Australia) | author2=Artbank (Australia) | title=[Artbank (Australia) : Australian Gallery File] | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/32482502 | access-date=16 October 2020}}
• 1990, 9–24 December: Christmas exhibition, Jester Press Gallery, 178 Bridport Street, Albert Park{{Citation | author1=Jester Press Gallery | title=[Jester Press Gallery : Australian Gallery File] | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/32484109 | access-date=16 October 2020}}

• 1995: All this I knew, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, VIC. and travelling{{Citation | author1=Ogilvie, Helen | author2=Palmer, Sheridan | author3=Ballarat Fine Art Gallery | title=All this I knew : Helen Ogilvie retrospective exhibition | date=1995 | publisher=Ballarat Fine Art Gallery | isbn=978-0-949063-07-6}}Munk, Frances (1996), 'From Banksias to Slaughter Houses: The art of Helen Ogilvie’, Imprint, 31/1, Autumn, pp25-26, A review of the travelling exhibition 'All this I knew’ curated by Sheridan Palmer and organised by Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, VIC.
• 1995/6, 15 December – 14 January: Helen Ogilvie Retrospective, McClelland Art Gallery, Langwarrin

• 1995, 5 March – 30 April: Australian Women Printmakers 1910–1940, Castlemaine Art Museum, Castlemaine, VIC{{Cite book|last=Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37179933|title=Women printmakers 1910 to 1940 in the Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum|date=1995|publisher=The Gallery and Museum|others=McKay, Kirsten.|isbn=0-646-23161-8|location=Castlemaine, Vic.|oclc=37179933}}
• 1995, 8 March – 2 April: The Women's View: Australian women artists in the Bendigo Art Gallery, 1888–1995, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, [https://www.daao.org.au/bio/event/the-womens-view-australian-women-artists-in-the-bendigo-art-gallery-1888-1995/ Vic]
• 1995, 8 March – 8 June: National Women's Art Exhibition, with Speaking of Women, four guest lectures; by Nancy Underhill, Ann Thomson, Margo Neale, Joan Kerr; held over successive Fridays, 10–31 March 1995, by the Art Gallery Society, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, [https://www.daao.org.au/bio/event/review-works-by-women-from-the-permanent-collection/ NSW]
• 1995, 4 August – 5 August: Women and Art auction preview for Dalia Stanley Auctioneers, auction held 6 August 1995, Mary Place Gallery, Paddington, [https://daao.library.unsw.edu.au/bio/event/women-and-art/ NSW]
• 2000/1, 24 November 2000 – 25 February 2001: Modern Australian Women: paintings and prints 1925–1945, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA. Then national tour.{{Citation | author1=Hylton, Jane, 1950- | title=Modern Australian Women, paintings and prints 1925–1945 | date=2000 | publisher=Art Gallery of South Australia | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/224548601 | access-date=14 October 2020}}{{Cite journal|last1=Nunn|first1=Pamela Gerrish|last2=Hylton|first2=Jane|last3=Hart|first3=Deborah|last4=Drayton|first4=Joanne|date=2003|title=Modern Australian Women: Paintings and Prints 1925–1945|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1358789|journal=Woman's Art Journal|volume=24|issue=2|pages=44|doi=10.2307/1358789|jstor=1358789|issn=0270-7993}}
• 2002, June/July: Journeys, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery{{Citation | title=Tasmanian artists hold their own.(Features) | journal=The Australian (National, Australia) | publication-date=2002-06-14 | publisher=News Limited | pages=020 | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/61260329 | access-date=16 October 2020}}
• 2011/12 10 December 2011 to 4 February 2012: Australian works on paper, Josef Lebovic Gallery, Kensington{{Citation |author1=Lebovic |first=Josef |title=Australian works on paper |publication-date=2011 |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/160998089 |access-date=16 October 2020 |publisher=Josef Lebovic Gallery |author2=Josef Lebovic Gallery, (host institution)}}
• 2011/12, 20 October 2011 – 15 December 2012: [http://www.lwgallery.uwa.edu.au/exhibitions/past/look-look-again Look, Look Again] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306172303/http://www.lwgallery.uwa.edu.au/exhibitions/past/look-look-again |date=6 March 2019 }}, highlights from the Cruthers Collection of Women's Art (CCWA), gifted to the University of Western Australia in 2007, with publication titled Into the Light{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/800667960|title=Into the light : the Cruthers Collection of Women's Art|date=2012|publisher=UWA Publishing|others=Cruthers, John., Kinsella, Lee., Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.|isbn=978-1-74258-485-0|location=Crawley, W.A.|oclc=800667960}} and symposium Are we there yet?. Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA
• 2019, 18 May – 4 August: Becoming Modern : Australian women artists 1920–1950, Art Gallery of Ballarat

• Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA
• Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, TAS
• Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, TAS
• Castlemaine Art Museum, Castlemaine, VIC{{Cite web|title=The Black Rooster|url=https://collection.castlemainegallery.com/objects/676/the-black-rooster|access-date=2021-08-11|website=Castlemaine Art Museum Collection Online|language=en}}
• Benalla Art Gallery, Benalla, VIC
• City of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, VIC
• University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC
• La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Helen Ogilvie works, State Library of Victoria|url=http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/primo-explore/search?query=any,contains,Helen%20Ogilvie&tab=default_tab&group=ALL&vid=MAIN&search_scope=Pictures|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-10-13|website=search.slv.vic.gov.au}}
• National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC{{Cite web|title=Helen OGILVIE {{!}} Artists {{!}} NGV|url=https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/artist/2002/|access-date=2020-10-13|website=www.ngv.vic.gov.au}}
• National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Helen Ogilvie: NGA collection search results|url=https://artsearch.nga.gov.au/search.cfm|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-10-13|website=artsearch.nga.gov.au}}
• Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Helen Ogilvie :: The Collection :: Art Gallery NSW|url=https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/?q=Helen+ogilvie|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-10-13|website=www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au}}
• Queensland Art Gallery{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Helen Ogilvie works|url=http://collection.qagoma.qld.gov.au/qag/imu.php?request=display&port=45001&id=6be1&flag=start&offset=0&sort=creatortitleaccno&count=20&view=lightbox&PublishOnIMuInternet=Y&value1=Ogilvie&column1=creatorculture|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-10-13|website=collection.qagoma.qld.gov.au}}
• Ian Potter Museum of Art, the University of Melbourne, VIC{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Ogilvie works in the collection, Ian Potter Museum search|url=http://storeroom.its.unimelb.edu.au/ipm/?page=search#view=list&id=0122&terms=%5B%22and%22,%5B%5B%22and%22,%5B%5D%5D,%5B%22keywords%22,%22Helen%20Ogilvie%22%5D%5D%5D&offset=48|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-10-13|website=storeroom.its.unimelb.edu.au}}
• Cruthers Collection of Women's Art at the University of Western Australia{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Helen Ogilvie works – search|url=https://www.uwaccwa.uwa.edu.au/?page=search#view=list&terms=%5B%22or%22,%5B%5B%22cat-irn%22,74461,%22=%22%5D,%5B%22cat-irn%22,74504,%22=%22%5D%5D%5D&id=39bb|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-10-13|website=www.uwaccwa.uwa.edu.au}}

• {{Citation|author1=Grimwade, Russell|title=Flinders Lane : recollections of Alfred Felton|publication-date=2018|publisher=Miegunyah Press|isbn=978-0-522-87392-4|author2=EBSCOhost|date=20 February 2018 }}
• {{Citation|author1=Medley, J. D. G|title=Stolne and surreptitious verses|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/185083884|publication-date=1952|publisher=s. n|access-date=16 October 2020|author2=Ogilvie, Helen}}
• {{Citation|author1=Serle, Geoffrey|title=Sir John Medley : a memoir|publication-date=1993|publisher=Melbourne University Press|isbn=978-0-522-84540-2|author2=Medley, John, Sir, 1891–1962|author3=Marginson, R. D. (Raymond David), 1923-|year=1993 }}

• {{Citation | author1=Maxwell, Helen | title=Helen Ogilvie : Wood engravings | date=1995 | publisher=Brindabella Press | isbn=978-0-909422-24-0}}
• {{Citation | author1=Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum | author2=McKay, Kirsten | author3=Castlemaine Art Gallery & Historical Museum | title=Women printmakers 1910 to 1940 in the Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum | date=1995 | publisher=The Gallery and Museum | isbn=978-0-646-23161-7}}
• {{Citation | author1=Ogilvie, Helen | author2=Palmer, Sheridan | author3=Ballarat Fine Art Gallery | title=All this I knew : Helen Ogilvie retrospective exhibition | date=1995 | publisher=Ballarat Fine Art Gallery | isbn=978-0-949063-07-6}}
• {{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/800667960|title=Into the light : the Cruthers Collection of Women's Art|date=2012|publisher=UWA Publishing|others=Cruthers, John., Kinsella, Lee., Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.|isbn=978-1-74258-485-0|location=Crawley, W.A.|oclc=800667960}}
• {{Citation | author1=Ogilvie, Helen | author2=aGOG Australian Girls Own Gallery | title=Helen Ogilvie : aGOG 4 May to 23 May 1991 | date=1991 | publisher=aGOG | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/12448676 | access-date=14 October 2020}}
• {{Citation | author1=Munk, Frances | title=From banksias to slaughter houses: the art of Helen Ogilvie | journal=Imprint | publication-date=1996 | volume=31 | issue=1 | pages=25–26 | issn=0313-3907}}
• Munk, Frances (1994), "The Prints of Helen Ogilvie", Postgraduate Diploma thesis, University of Melbourne.

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