Nell Wilson was a painter, commercial artist and art teacher. She was one of the Australia's most sought-after commercial illustrators in the late 1930s-40s. Wilson ...
Painter, painted many Melbourne Cup winners, including 'Auraria, Winner of the Melbourne Cup, 1895, with John Stevenson up, at Flemington,' 1895, oil on canvas, which ...
Jessie Woodroffe attended L.J. Harvey's first pottery class at the Central Technical College, Brisbane in August 1916 and was the first potter to have a ...
Needleworker of Nambour, Qld, exhibited needlework and handicrafts from the 1920s to the 1970s at agricultural shows and Country Women's Association competitions throughout Australia. She ...
Originally a mathematics teacher, the English born Blamire Young established himself as an illustrator, painter, designer, writer and art critic. An article in 'Art and ...
Zander was manager of the Redfern Galleries in London and organised the 'Exhibition of British Contemporary Art' and accompanied it to Australia in 1933. She ...
Danish painter, printmaker and theatre designer. Zimmerdahl produced oils, watercolours, drawings, linocuts and illustrations which she exhibited during her period in Sydney in the 1920s ...
Painter, decorator, embroiderer and art patron. Resident of Sydney, NSW her patronage of modern art puts her among its earliest supporters in Australia.
Roy De Maistre, along with Roland Wakelen and Grace Cossington Smith was one of the pioneers of Post Impressionism in Australia. Later, in England, he ...
English trained printmaker who arrived in Western Australia in 1910. During the following two decades he was one of Australia's best known printmakers working mainly ...
Colonial female who painted for distraction, while her family was parodied in her nephew's novels as the product of a nouveau-riche convict father, whose descendants ...