Past and Present. National Women's Art Exhibition 1995

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Baker, Christina Asquith, b. 1868
Portrait and figure painter who studied in Paris and in Melbourne at the National Gallery School under Frederick McCubbin. Baker was still exhibiting at the ...
Updated Jan. 12, 2026
Young, Michael
Updated Dec. 13, 2025
Martin, Mandy, b. 1952
One of the activist women artists who emerged in the mid-1970s, later turned from overtly political posters and industrial landscapes to painting powerful landscapes of ...
Updated Dec. 3, 2025
Allen, Belinda Ann, b. 1956
Belinda Allen is a digital photomedia artist based in Sydney. She graduated in Printmaking from the SA School of Art in 1977, and has worked ...
Updated Sept. 6, 2025
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Bryans, Lina, b. 1909
A somewhat peripatetic artist whose wanderlust took her to Europe, America and Central Australia, Lina Bryans was noted for her landscapes and her abstract modernism.
Updated Aug. 29, 2025
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Dyring, Moya, b. 1909
Dyring was a painter, working primarily in Melbourne and Paris. She exhibited in Australia and overseas with an important collection of her work in the ...
Updated Aug. 16, 2025
Palmer, Ethleen Mary, b. 1906
Ethleen Palmer was one of the generation of women printmakers who have come to characterise Australian art in the decades between World War I and ...
Updated Aug. 9, 2025
Bale, Alice Marion Ellen, b. 1875
Alice Bale never lived elsewhere but her native Victoria. She became a well-known painter in her time and was a great supporter of women in ...
Updated Aug. 7, 2025
Broome-Norton, Jean, b. 1911
A twentieth-century Sydney sculptor and later jeweller. Broome-Norton was a student and later an assistant of Raynor Hoff's. A graduate of the East Sydney Technical ...
Updated Aug. 5, 2025
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Appleton, Jean, b. 1911
Appleton was a painter and craftworker who studied at East Sydney Technical College and at the Westminster School, London. After seeing French sculptor Maillol's work ...
Updated Aug. 5, 2025
Chapman, Dora Cecil, b. 1911
Painter, silk-screen printer, potter and art teacher. Resident of South Australia, New South Wales, and England, she was concerned with changing society through social realist ...
Updated Aug. 5, 2025
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Heysen, Nora, b. 1911
The daughter of painter Hans Heysen, Nora Heysen was highly regarded as an artist in her own right. In 1938 she became the first woman ...
Updated Aug. 5, 2025
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Cotton, Olive, b. 1911
Olive Cotton's black and white photographs are characterised by their use of light to create ambiguity. For most of her life she was better known ...
Updated Aug. 2, 2025
Thornhill, Dorothy, b. 1910
Painter and teacher at the National Art School for almost forty years, Thornhill was the second wife of her former teacher, Douglas Dundas. Painter Brian ...
Updated Aug. 2, 2025
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Kngwarreye, Emily Kame, b. 1910
One of the best known desert artists and a senior woman in Utopia (NT), Kngwarreye's work is distinctive for its expressive abstract style. The recipient ...
Updated Aug. 2, 2025
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Haxton, Elaine Alys, b. 1909
Painter, printmaker and designer, Haxton worked through the 1930s as a commercial artist in both Sydney and London. In 1943 she won the Sulman Prize ...
Updated Aug. 2, 2025
Francis, Margaret, b. 1909
Painter, was born into an art loving family. Her older sister Dorothea was also a painter. They exhibited together for many years.
Updated Aug. 2, 2025
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Bellette, Jean Mary, b. 1909
Respected painter and illustrator of the 1940s and '50s and a two-time winner of the Sulman Prize.
Updated Aug. 2, 2025
Lempriere, Helen Dora, b. 1907
painter and lithographer, born in Melbourne in 1907, Lempriere had a forty year career of independent, professional practice, died in Sydney, 1991.
Updated July 31, 2025
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Stokes, Constance, b. 1906
Stokes' art shows her interest in the human form, in particular the female figure. Her powerful nude female studies are beyond the erotic or decorative, ...
Updated July 31, 2025
Hinder, Margel Ina, b. 1906
Sculptor, born in New York she moved to Australia with her husband and became involved in the Austalian modernist movement. Her later career includes large ...
Updated July 31, 2025
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Dawson, Janet, b. 1935
Painter, printmaker and designer active from the early 1950s until well into the second decade of the 21st century. One of only three women to ...
Updated July 25, 2025
Younger, Jay, b. 1960
Muttaburra born artist, writer, curator, educator and academic lives and works in Brisbane. Active participant of Queensland Artworker's Alliance and the Queensland ARI sector since ...
Updated July 20, 2025
Ogilvie, Helen Elizabeth, b. 1902
While working as the director of Peter Bray Gallery in Melbourne, Helen Ogilvie organised exhibitions for such avant-garde artists as Margo Lewers, John Brack, Sidney ...
Updated May 22, 2025
Craig, Sybil Mary Frances, b. 1901
Mid 20th century painter and cartoonist of Melbourne.
Updated May 22, 2025