Nan Fullarton
{{Short description|Australian artist and writer}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Nan Fullarton
| birth_name = Nancy Edith Fullarton
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1913|07|15}}
| birth_place = Temora, New South Wales, Australia
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2000|04|11|1913|07|15}}
| death_place = London, England
| alma_mater = Sydney Technical College
| occupation = Artist, writer, illustrator, costume designer
}}
Nancy Edith Fullarton (15 July 1913 – 11 April 2000){{Cite web |title=Papers of Nan Fullarton, circa 1940-circa 1969 [manuscript] |url=https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/catalog/1665584 |website=National Library of Australia}}{{Cite web |last=Bassett |first=Nancy Edith |date=2000 |title=Probate records for documents and wills (England and Wales) |url=https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/search-results |access-date=2024-11-16 |website=probatesearch.service.gov.uk |language=en}} was an Australian artist,{{Cite book |last=Lees |first=Stella |url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont0000lees/mode/2up |title=The Oxford companion to Australian children's literature |date=1993 |publisher=Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-19-553284-5}} writer, illustrator, and ballet costume designer.{{Cite web |last=Kerr |first=Joan |date=2007 |title=Nancy Edith Fullarton |url=https://www.daao.org.au/bio/nancy-edith-fullarton/biography/ |website=Design & Art Australia Online}}{{Cite web |last=www.bibliopolis.com |title=Floating Nymph With Cherubs by Nan Fullarton, Aust on Josef Lebovic Gallery |url=https://www.joseflebovicgallery.com/pages/books/CL181-129/nan-fullarton-aust/floating-nymph-with-cherubs |access-date=2024-11-16 |website=Josef Lebovic Gallery |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=About Christina Gallea {{!}} Christina Gallea Roy & Alexander Roy International Dance |url=https://www.gallearoy.com/about-2/about-christina-gallea/ |access-date=2024-11-16 |language=en-US}}{{Cite news |date=9 February 1957 |title=Selections for Spring 1957 |work=Bookseller |pages=469}}
Early life
Nancy Edith Fullarton was born in Temora, New South Wales on 15 July 1913, to John and Lilian Fullarton.{{Cite web |title=Fullarton, Nancy Edith (Nan) |url=https://www.womenaustralia.info/entries/fullarton-nancy-edith-nan/ |access-date=2024-11-16 |website=AWR |language=en-AU}} The family moved to Sydney while Fullarton was still a child. She attended Sydney Girls’ High School and later studied art at Sydney Technical College. Fullarton worked as a commercial artist in Sydney, going on to have her own studio and employing assistants.
In 1937, Fullarton married Paul Denny, with whom she had a daughter.
Career
Fullarton's first book, The Alphabet from A to Z, was published in 1946, selling 50,000 copies. Her art and writing focused on Australian animals. The Alphabet was followed by A Day in the Bush, a collection of nursery rhymes.
As well as her children’s books, Fullarton created comic strips. A three-month trial of Frisky in the Sydney Morning Herald in 1948 became a permanent feature in the Sunday Herald. Fullarton also adapted and illustrated a comic strip version of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland stories. Her Frisky strips were published as a book in 1956, as well as being made into an educational film by the New South Wales Education Department. Another strip created by Fullarton, The World of Animals, was published across Australia and in Europe.
In 1955, Fullerton moved with her daughter to London. In retirement, she worked in a London ballet company founded by her daughter, Christina, and son-in-law, the dancer-choreographer Alexander Roy. She designed programs, publicity materials, and costumes.{{Cite web |title=Press Quotes {{!}} Christina Gallea Roy & Alexander Roy International Dance |url=https://www.gallearoy.com/companies/press-quotes/ |access-date=2024-11-16 |language=en-US}}
In 1970, Fullarton married Italian-British restauranteur, Rene Bassett, who died in 1982. A stroke in 1998 left her partly incapacitated, and following a further stroke, Fullarton died in London on 11 April 2000.
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Category:Artists from New South Wales
Category:20th-century Australian women writers
Category:20th-century Australian women artists
Category:Australian costume designers
Category:Australian emigrants to England
Category:British costume designers
Category:People educated at Sydney Girls High School
Category:People from the Riverina