Margaret Benyon | |
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| Born | 29 April 1940 Birmingham, England |
| Died | 21 October 2016 (aged 76) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Education | Slade School of Fine Art Royal College of Art |
| Known for | Pioneer in the artistic use of holography |
Margaret Benyon, MBE, was a British artist. Trained as a painter, she was one of the first artists to use holography as a medium and had her first solo show of holograms in 1969. She was appointed to the Order of the British Empire in 2000 for her service to art and has been called "the mother of British holography".