[1] Brassil was one of the first artists to receive the Australia Council for the Arts' Visual Arts/Craft Board Emeritus Award in 1988.
[3] She was born Rita Joan Foster in August 1919 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
[6] In 1973 she was awarded the Mosman Art Prize for Creative Tension III – Cell Division.
[7] The Sydney Morning Herald noted: "'Deceptively simple and yet utterly confounding' was the description given to one of her installations, The Breath of Psyche, by Dr Susan Best, senior lecturer in art at the University of NSW.
It sums up Brassil's work: its physical elements accessible but its meaning an invigorating intellectual challenge.