Australian printmaker Ruth Faerber has died aged 102. She never stopped making art
- Written by Joanna Mendelssohn, Honorary Senior Fellow, School of Culture and Communication. Editor in chief, Design and Art of Australia Online, The University of Melbourne
In 1974, when a local Sydney newspaper wrote on the success of two local artists, they were introduced using their husband’s names. Ruth Faerber, who has died aged 102, was named as “Mrs Hans (Ruth) Faerber of Castle Cove”.
This was later expanded to indicate the “housewife, mother of two is the wife of Hans Faerber, a...





