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Adrian Feint
Narrandera, NSW, 1894 – 1971


The multi-talented Feint was a painter, printmaker, bookplate designer and illustrator who provided illustrations for a range of books and journals and was renowned for his bookplates. He was associated with The Home magazine published by Sydney Ure Smith read more.

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Deborah Kelly. Deborah Kelly began making socially engaged artwork in 1983. Her collaborative projects include boat-people.org and the prize-winning public artwork series Hey, hetero!, created with Tina Fiveash. Her work Beware of the God - commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, and first shown in 2005 - was reiterated for the 2008 Singapore Biennale.

Deborah Klein. A printmaker whose woodblock and linocut prints have been widely published. Klein was Highly Commended in the 1996 Silk Cut Acquisitive Award for Linocut Prints. Her contribution to 'Alice 125', the 1990 exhibition celebrating Lewis Carroll's 'Alice in Wonderland' was a series of 29 woodblocks exploring the idea of 'the innocent abroad' - a tribute to two friends who died overseas.

Alfred Oakley. A photographic artist and daguerrean who worked professionally as a photographer, Alfred Oakley, also known as Alfred Oakey, worked in Melbourne's Bourke St in the late nineteenth century.

Margaret Olley. After her first Australian solo painting exhibitions, Olley worked and exhibited in France in the 1950s. An endearing personality, Olley had many travelling and working friendships with other Australian artists. Olley died at her home in Paddington, Sydney, on 26th July 2011.

Darren Sylvester. Sylvester's multi-disciplinary artistic practice encompasses photography, video, sculpture, text and painting. His choreographed photographic images are rendered with intense, glossy clarity. Themes in his work include relationships, emotions, urban alienation and the passing of time..

Bill Christopher. Christopher was a designer and retailer working for Myer Melbourne as the head of their furnishings department ca.1970. Myer offered an interior design service as well as their retail operation. He trained Rob Thomson and other aspiring interior designers.

Leslie Currey. Currey is an English-born designer who came to Australia in the mid-20th century, working for Georges, Melbourne, later as a principal at interior design Riddell Marly, Melbourne.

Liz Nowell.

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