Studies:
Sydney Commercial Art School (Commercial Art, Life Drawing, Still Life & Watercolour) started at 15 years 1931-1934
Chiswick Polytechnic School of Art, UK 1936 -1937
Central Saint Martin’s summer school, UK 1937
Julian Ashton Art School, Sydney – 1936, 1938 -1943

Taught:
Sydney Commercial Art School (Commercial Art) – 1935
Julian Ashton Art School and assistant to Principal 1943 – Dec 1947
Joy Ewart Art School (Willoughby Arts Centre) 1957 – 1958
Several TAFE colleges in NSW – 1960s and 1970s
Public talks, workshops & correspondence course throughout the Central West of NSW
Mary’s Art Classes TV show (WIN Orange) recordings used to promote Orange Festival of Arts – 1965

Finalist:
Archibald Prize in 1954 to 1958
Portia Geach Award through the 1970s

Awards:
One of three finalists, NSW Traveling Art Scholarship – 1942
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Acropole Prize for open section watercolour and other media prize – 1960
Bathurst Society of Music and Arts, art prize for drawing -1964
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Ben Chifley Prize for open section watercolour and other media prize – 1972

Represented:
Art Gallery of NSW
Julian Ashton Art School
Bathurst Regional Gallery

Collections include:
Art Gallery of NSW
Julian Ashton Art School
Bathurst Regional Gallery
National Library of Australia
State Library of NSW
Charles Sturt University
National Party of Australia
Devro Headquarters, USA
Workers Educational Association
Willoughby City Council
Morse Group
Denison College
All Saints College, NSW
Gabbinbar School, Qld

Solo exhibitions:
Mary Abbott Roberts 1935 – 1985 Retrospective Exhibition – Bathurst Regional Art Gallery – 1985
Mary M. Abbott – Bathurst Society of Music and Arts, The Cottage Studio, Machattie Park -1980
Mary M. Abbott – Bathurst Society of Music and Arts, The Cottage Studio, Machattie Park – 1985
Mary M. Abbott – Hayloft Gallery, Bathurst – 1974
Mary M. Abbott – Hayloft Gallery, Bathurst – 1979

Exhibitions by invitation:
‘Orange Festival of the Arts’ – 1965
‘Women’s Images of Women’, Project 21 – Art Gallery of NSW – 1977
‘Before Their Time’ Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, in ‘Before Their Time’ exhibition, part of the National Women’s Art of NSW exhibition – 1995
‘On Line Exhibition – Figure Drawings by the Teachers of the Julian Ashton Art School’ – shown at Charles Sturt University; Bathurst, Orange and Dubbo Regional Galleries; Sydney University – 1992

Commissions include:
Sir Charles Cutler (oil)
Sir Hugh M. Nelson (bronze relief sculpture)
Sir Rupert Myers (oil)
Air Commodore Mason OBE, CBE (oil)
Imogen Osborne – Commissioned by F. Osborne MP, CMG (oil)
Penelope Osborne – Commissioned by F. Osborne MP, CMG (oil)
Major General Stewart (oil)
Marie Therese (former Princess Marie Therese Carraciolo di Vietri) (pastel)
Mr Nannini – commissioned by M. Therese (former Princess Marie Therese Carraciolo di Vietri) (pastel)
Cecilia Nannini – commissioned by M. Therese (former Princess Marie Therese Carraciolo di Vietri) (oil)
Alan Morse OBE (oil)
David Stewart OBE (oil)
Mrs Una Brown (former Countess Marcio Vincenzo Romano of Eboli, Italy) (oil)
Lawrence Orchard OAM (oil)
Mrs Clunies-Ross (commissioned by Captain Clunies-Ross) (oil)
Archdeacon Ellis (oil)
Dr M. McMichael (Principal, Mitchell College of Advanced Education) (oil)
Professor Michael Roberts (oil)
Completed many more portraits and landscape commissions.
Completed commissions of children’s books illustrations and various others

Jewellery Design:
Ciro Pearls, 178 Regent Street, London W.1. – 1936

Commercial Art and Fashion:
Commercial Art Freelance, Sydney 1933 -1935
Penny’s, Mark Foy’s Building, Sydney – 1938
Penny’s Freelance Studio – 1939
Freelance Studio, 24 Bond Street, Sydney -1940
Randall’s Engraving Freelance Studio, Sydney – 1941

Please note: there is a lot of confusion about Mary’s age, probably due to the young age she started her career, just after her 15th birthday.

Signed her name by various signatures as Mary Abbott, Mary M. Abbott, Mary Abbot Roberts