Powerhouse Museum, Design Project

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Baker, Nyukana, b. 1943
Pitjantjatjara artist from Ernabella who began painting, designing and weaving in 1963 and producing batik in 1971. Her work is widely exhibited in Australia and ...
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Venables, Prue
Widely exhibited and collected ceramicist based in Melbourne. In addition to her artistic practice, she has designed porcelain tableware for production in Japan.
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Gazzard, Marea, b. 1928
Marea Gazzard was a sculptor in clay and bronze. After training in ceramics, she studied sculpture with Lyndon Dadswell and had her first solo exhibition ...
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Levy, Col, b. 1933
Col Levy is one of the generation of post World War II potters who was strongly influenced by the aesthetic of Japanese Stoneware, especially Bizen ...
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Daly, Greg, b. 1954
Greg Daly is a an internationally renowned ceramist, author and educator specializing in glaze techniques, lustres and surface treatments including gold and silver leaf.
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Puruntatameri, Eddie, b. 1948
Eddie Puruntatameri was Australia's first Indigenous studio potter. After studying at Bagot pottery he returned home to Bathurst Island where he established Tiwi in 1972. ...
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Rushforth, Peter, b. 1920
Peter Rushforth's pots are a synthesis of European and Japanese aesthetic influences. He came to an appreciation of the Japanese Mingei (folk) aesthetic in unusual ...
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Beaver, Betty, b. 1924
Owner of Beaver Galleries (est 1975), Canberra and a pioneer of craft-based exhibitions in the ACT. She studied design with Derek Wrigley at Canberra Technical ...
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Design Nation
Design Nation includes designers David Corbet, Andrew Medhurst and Bryce Tuckwell.
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McDermott, Ruth, b.
Sydney-based lighting designer who originally trained and worked as an industrial designer. McDermott's practice has spanned architectural, residential, corporate and site-specific art projects.
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Bamford, Roderick
Designer, ceramicist and sculptor. Bamford designed 'The Artist Cup Collection' for Australian coffee company, Manfredi Enterprises, Sydney, in 1999.
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Sayer, Bryan
Bryan Sayer is a designer working from a gallery C20 Decorative Arts, Paddington in the late 1980s.. His G'Day chair (1988) was designed in partnership ...
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Wood, David
Wood is an industrial designer, the managing director Nielsen Design Associates. Working with Louis Challis, designers from Nielsen Design Associates and others, he was a ...
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Tregear, Leanne
Leanne Tregear was a member of a consortium of designers who worked out of Whitehall Enterprises [c. 1986-89] in Footscray, Melbourne. She primarily works in ...
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Onus, Bill, b. 1906
William Townsend (Bill) Onus 1906-68. As an artist, entrepeneur, actor and activist Bill Onus made an significant contribution to Art and Aboriginality in postwar Melbourne. ...
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Rodriquez, John, b. 1929
Rodriquez is a textile designer and manufacturer with training at Melbourne Technical College (later RMIT). He studied industrial design and begun making greeting cards in ...
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