Normana Wight

Normana Wight (born 1936 in Melbourne) is an Australian artist, best known as a painter and printmaker.

Wight studied painting at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (1954-57) and after a short time as a fabric designer and high school art teacher, later studied printmaking at Central School of Arts and Crafts, London (1962-63). Upon returning to Australia in 1964 she moved to Sydney, then Mittagong, New South Wales. She returned to Melbourne in 1967 to teach at the Preston Institute of Technology.

Wight's initial work focused on abstract forms in fields of bright colour.

In 1967, Wight's work came to the attention of Brian Finemore and John Stringer, co-curators of the seminal exhibition The Field at the National Gallery of Victoria in 1968. Wight is one of three women artists to have work included in The Field, the others being Janet Dawson and Wendy Paramor. Wight was represented by a large painting in two parts hung vertically, 'Untitled' 1968 (cat. no. 74). She later had to destroy the work as it was too large and awkward to store. Wight remade the work in 2017 for the National Gallery of Victoria's exhibition 'The Field Revisited' 2018, and the new work was acquired by the Gallery.

Major exhibitions

• The Field Revisited, National Gallery of Victoria, 2018
• Abstraction: celebrating Australian women artists, National Gallery of Australia, touring exhibition, 2017
• Normana Wight: recent work, Grahame Galleries, 1990
• The Field, National Gallery of Victoria, 1968

Public collections

• National Gallery of Australia
• Queensland Art Gallery - Queensland Art Gallery|Gallery of Modern Art Collection Search
• Art Gallery of New South Wales
• National Gallery of Victoria

Awards and nominations