Lesley Dumbrell

In 1977 she was Artist in Residence at Monash University and from 1980-1985 was Part-time Lecturer (Painting) at the Victorian College of the Arts Melbourne.

[11] Dumbell worked with Erica McGilchrist, Kiffy Carter and Meredith Rogers at the Ewing and George Paton Galleries on establishing networks among women artists in Melbourne.

[4] In 1969 the Bonython Gallery in Sydney hosted Dumbrell's first solo exhibition, alongside her husband Lenton Parr, Bryan Westwood, and Don Driver.

Critic Donald Brook described her 'ambiguous abstract figures': "Their subdued tonality coaxes the eye with a persuasive gentleness that is surprisingly agreeable after so much occular [sic] assault by painting of this kind.

[21] Lesley Dumbrell widely in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, and since 1990 has lived and worked between Thailand and Victoria, Australia.