Background
Moya Clare Drying was born in Coburg, Victoria in 1909, the third child of Carl Peter Wilhelm Dyring, medical practitioner, and his second wife Dagmar Alexandra Esther, née Cohn, both Victorian born.
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Moya Dyring
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After visiting Paris in 1928, she studied at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School, Melbourne from 1929 to 1932. After NGV, Moya studied under George Bell in the Bourke Street Studio School in Melbourne, who and Sam Atyeo, encouraged her to experiment with modernism.
Career
She was one of the first women artists to exhibit cubist painting in Melbourne. The family moved to Brighton in 1920. Sunday Reed also studied at Bell"s School at the time.
Foreign several months in 1937 she took charge of Heide, the home and garden of the art patrons John and Sunday Reed, at Bulleen, a suburb of Melbourne.
Dyring"s husband, Sam Atyeo, had an affair with Sunday Reed and later Dyring had an affair with Sunday"s husband John. She had a successful solo exhibition at Riddell Gallery in Melbourne in June 1937.
In August 1937, Dying embarked for Panama, then travelled to New New York She disliked the work of contemporary American artists and sailed for France.
In 1938 she was based in Paris, taking advantage of Atyeo"s contacts within the avant-garde.
She studied at the Académie Colarossi, the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and with Andre Lhote. In 1939, she and Atyeo set up house on a farm in Vence, France. Atyeo accepted a commission in Dominica, and left Dyring in Vence.
At the outbreak of war she was evacuated back to Australia.
She returned to Australia every three years until 1963. Two of her earliest works, Melanctha, 1934, a small cubist work, and Portrait of Sunday Reed, 1934, are part of the permanent collection at the Heide Museum of Modern Artist
She is also represented in the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
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Australia