Born in Toronto, Ontario, Garwood graduated from the Ontario College of Art, Audrey Garwood received a scholarship to pursue postgraduate studies at the Rijks Academie in Amsterdam, after which she attended La Grande Chaumiere in Paris, France.
A member and exhibitor with the Ontario Society of Artists, the Royal Canadian Academy, and the Women’s Caucus of the Arts, Garwood received numerous awards, including the Sterling Trust Award for Canadian painters, the Canadian Society of Printmakers Print Award, and the San Francisco Art Festival’s Purchase award. With a career spanning over fifty years, Garwood was the subject of over twenty-five solo shows. In 1956, she was the youngest individual (and first woman) to win the prized Forester Award of the Ontario Society of Artists.
Source: "A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, Volume II”, compiled by Colin S. MacDonald, Canadian Paperbacks Publishing Ltd, Ottawa, 1979
