Caroline Ambrus (born 1938), Art and other studies: Bach. Educ. from CCAE (1975), studied at Canberra School of Art and East Sydney Tech. (1969-1971) and completed Library Assoc. of Aust. Registration Cert. (1966-1969). Ambrus has lectured on women artists at the Centres for Continuing Education at Sydney Uni., and ANU. She has established artists' studios, art galleries and lithography workshops in Canberra, Queanbeyan and Sydney. Ambrus has also written three books on women artists being: 'The Ladies Picture Show' (Hale and Iremonger 1984), 'Australian Women Artists, First Fleet to 1945, History, Hearsay and Her Say' (irrePRESSible Press 1992)  and 'The Unseen Art Scene' (irrePRESSible Press 1994).  She has established her publishing and printing business irrePRESSible Press (www.irrepressible.com.au) in Calwell, ACT. She has written and illustrated several children's books. Her narrative poem, co-authored with Graeme Hume,  'The Year of the Mean Queen' won the ACT Writers' Centre Children's Book of the Year award in 2005.

EXHIBITIONS solo shows: 1980 Canberra Theatre Centre; Australian National Uni. Arts Centre; 1981 Barry Stern's Gallery, Sydney; 1983 Arts Council Gallery, Canberra; 1984 Tilly Devine's Cafe and Gallery of Women's Art, Canberra; 1985 Profile Gallery, Melbourne;

EXHIBITIONS group shows: 1980 Canberra Times, Art Award, Canberra; 1980 Women's Art at Niagara Lane Galleries, Melbourne; 1982 Animals on Canvas, Barry Stern's Gallery, Sydney; A City Heritage Painting, Sydney; Superdoreen, Canberra; 1984 Gallery 41, Canberra; 1986 Old Canberra Brickworks, Canberra; 1993 Mary Reiby Gallery, Enmore. PUBLICATIONS: Ladies'Picture Show'- Sources on a Century of Australian Women Artists, Hale and Iremonger, 1984; Australian Women Artists -First Fleet to 1945 - History, Hearsay and Her Say, Irrepressible Press, 1992. The Unseen Art Scene, Irrepressible Press, 1993. Ambrus has published articles in Craft Australia and various other journals and a biography in Jocelyn Scutt's Different Lives, 1985.