Powerhouse Museum, Design Project

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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. ...
Updated Sept. 9, 2021
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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 ...
Updated Aug. 10, 2021
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Keys, Eileen, b. 1903
Updated July 16, 2021
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Bryce, Michael
Bryce was a Queensland architect and visual communication designer and principal of Minale Bryce Design Strategy. He was the inaugural Queensland President of the Industrial ...
Updated Feb. 2, 2021
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Thorn, Sara
Thorn worked as a designer as part of Slorach and Thorn, Melbourne. They produced textile designs, accessory designs and graphic works.
Updated Jan. 6, 2021
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Slorach, Bruce
Slorach worked as a designer as part of Slorach and Thorn, Melbourne. They produced textile designs, accessory designs and graphic works.
Updated Jan. 6, 2021
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Bendigo Pottery
Bendigo Pottery is a ceramics association established by George Guthrie in 1857 in Bendigo, Victoria.
Updated Dec. 26, 2020
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Bennett Pottery
Updated Dec. 26, 2020
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Bird, Ada Petyarre, b. 1930
Anmatyerre artist and a senior woman in Utopia, Bird's batiks and canvases are held in major collections in Australia and overseas. She is featured in ...
Updated Dec. 19, 2020
Marika, Banduk, b. 1954
Yirrkala traditional owner, printmaker and painter
Updated Dec. 19, 2020
Jubelin, Narelle, b. 1960
Fabric and installation artist who has lived for many years in Spain. She works mainly in petit point embroidery, often reconfiguring images from architectural paintings ...
Updated Dec. 13, 2020
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Kee, Jenny, b. 1947
Updated Dec. 11, 2020
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Jackson, Linda, b. 1950
Linda Jackson is an artist, writer, and painter who has worked in the fashion industry. Jackson was born in Melbourne in 1950.
Updated Dec. 11, 2020
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Holt, Zara, b. 1909
Holt was a fashion designer who began with a dress shop in Melbourne in partnership with Betty James in 1930. Her biographer, P. A. Pemberton, ...
Updated Nov. 10, 2020
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Wilson, Ian
Wilson is an industrial designer and former Design Director at Sunbeam Australia from 1984-1999. He is a principal of Wilson Product Development.
Updated June 15, 2020
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Featherston, Grant, b. 1922
Featherston was an Industrial design and design industry leader. Recognised for his furniture and exhibition work in partnership with Mary Featherston, he helped to form ...
Updated May 2, 2020
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Bannister, Jenny, b. 1954
Jenny Bannister is a Melbourne fashion designer most active in the 1970s and 1980s. Inspired by the punk movement, Bannister designed clothes under the label ...
Updated April 19, 2020
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Isogawa, Akira, b. 1964
Internationally acclaimed Australian fashion designer based in Sydney. He has had a long association with the Sydney Dance Company as a designer of their costumes.
Updated Dec. 13, 2019
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Foster, Robert, b. 1962
Foster studied silversmithing at the Art School, ANU, founding the Canberra-based jewellery and household object design company F!NK + Co in 1993. In 1997, Gretel ...
Updated Dec. 13, 2019
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Sellheim, Gert Hugo Emmanuel, b. 1901
Sellheim was a graphic artist and industrial designer. He won the Sulman Prize in 1939 and was one of the first poster artists to work ...
Updated Nov. 26, 2019
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Pwerle, Lena, b. 1920
Senior Eastern Anmatyerre artist, from the Ngkwarlerlaneme community (NT), who took up painting with fellow painters from Utopia in the summer of 1988/89.
Updated Sept. 1, 2019
Pwerle, Roese
Updated Sept. 1, 2019
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Brown, Nora Petyarre
Updated Aug. 31, 2019
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Williams, Vera Mbitjana, b. 1966
Pitjantjatjara speaker also fluent in five other Central Australian languages. A dedicated artist in the media of screenprint and fabric design, and more recently, canvas ...
Updated Aug. 30, 2019
McLean, Pantjiti Mary, b.
Contemporary Indigenous printmaker and winner of the 1995 Telstra Aboriginal Art Award. Dr McLean's work is held in all the major national collections around Australia. ...
Updated Aug. 30, 2019