Yvonne Audette (b. 1930) is one of Australia's finest abstract artists. She studied with John Passmore at the JAAS and in 1952, as an ambitious young student, left Sydney to live and work in studios in New York, Barcelona, Florence and Milan, mixing successfully with the Avant-Garde abstract painters of the time. These defining experiences of Audette's expatriate years were critical to her development as an artist and in turn, her role as a key figure in the progression of abstract painting in Australia. Her work contains a strong graphic vocabulary, balancing bold linear qualities with rich layers of calligraphic gestures and lyrical abstraction.