Margaret Worth

2020 Worth featured in the year long 'Know My Name' program at the National Gallery of Australia including the Billboards Project across Australia and the exhibition.

2018 In ‘Landfall’, the Lorne VIC Sculpture Biennale 2018, Worth won the Non-Acquisitive Award valued at $20,000 with her work ‘VAJRASANA meditation’.

2015 Worth presented 'Mining the Mind' at Flinders Medical Centre SA. Five elemental works combine sound and moving images of energy with sand, salt, graphite and carbon. The installations create environments for the individual where the real, the remembered and the imagined can merge.

2013 The artist installed 'Where Are You? What time is it? How do you know?' at Araluen in central Australia and at Goolwa, regional SA. CCTV, glass, sand and polystyrene were used to create different environments in which the viewer appeared simultaneously on screen.

2010 she partnered Pam Kouwenhoven in the exhibition 'Drop the Dust' for the South Australian Living Artists Festival in 2010. Subsequently it toured eastern Australia over 2 years.

Since 2004 Worth has appeared in 20 special projects and exhibitions. For Example:

Worth evolved into a sculptor and installation artist. In 1988 an exhibition showed 'Forest Fragment' works made by using a pruning saw to carve polystyrene, a petroleum product, and coloured them with acrylic paints. By the 1990s she was working with a variety of materials for both interior and outside sculpture installations.

She returned to Adelaide in 1984 and is now a resident of Victor Harbor, South Australia.

In 1969 Worth moved with Ball to New York. There she studied at the School of Visual Arts with feminist theorist and curator Lucy Lippard and the sculptor Richard Serra. She attended the School of Visual Arts in 1969–70 and subsequently spent two years at Columbia University.

In the 1960s Worth was an abstract painter who worked in slabs and s-curves of bold and brilliant colours, on both flat and shaped canvases. Her first exhibition in Adelaide in the 1960s were of such paintings. The National Gallery of Australia holds two paintings and several prints from Worth's Samsara series that depicts her interpretation of the Sanskrit word which refers to the cycle of death and rebirth. The series includes bands of pure colour that move rhythmically and mysteriously across shaped canvases. In 2020 three of the series were featured in the NGA's Know My Name National Art Event.

Margaret G. Worth (born 1944) is an Australian artist, who has worked as a painter, screen printer and sculptor. She studied music, pure and applied math and sciences before she turned to studies in art in 1962. Her art allowed her to seek to combine her wonder in science and spirituality. Her work is represented in the Australian national and state galleries, and in private collections in Australia and the United States.

Born in Adelaide, South Australia in 1944, Worth spent three years teaching before leaving to practice as an artist. From 1962 she studied at the South Australian School of Art where she was influenced by Dora Chapman, Geoff Wilson and Sydney Ball. Ball, an abstract painter who had recently returned from New York and would later become her husband.