A Lap of Caulfield Park
Seasoned journalist Ashley Browne speaks with Australian Jews making an impact; from fashion to football, business to the arts. Tracing their lives and influences, these intimate conversations are the perfect companion for your daily walk – or lap of Caulfield Park.
A Lap of Caulfield Park
William Mora, art dealer and son of Mirka Mora
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Plus61JMedia and the Jewish Museum of Australia
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Season 2
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Episode 14
Few people can lay claim to changing a city forever – it's food, art and culture – but Mirka Mora can. The Holocaust survivor fled war-torn France for Australia in 1951. Together with her husband, Georges, she brought a cosmopolitan sensibility and aesthetic missing from dour, provincial Melbourne. In a 60-year artistic career she painted on canvases big and small and collaborated with everyone from VicRail to fashion designers Gorman. Mirka's life reflected her art: bold, energetic and colourful. A new exhibition of Mirka's work tells both her life story and legacy through paintings, sound recordings and film. William Mora, her son and art dealer, joined us to discuss the exhibition and remember his late mother.