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Creeth, May, b. 1854
May Creeth was born in 1854. She was a painter, china painter, teacher, photographer and pyrographer. Creeth trained in art at the South Kensington Schools ...
McCubbin, Frederick, b. 1855
From the 1880s, when his first mature work was painted, until just before his death in 1917, Frederick McCubbin painted some of Australia's most loved ...
Creeth, Helen, b. 1859
Helen Creeth was born in 1859. She was a painter, china painter, teacher and photographer. Creeth trained as an art teacher at the South Kensington ...
Tompkins, Margaret Ethel, b. 1874
TOMPKINS. Margaret Ethel aka M. E. Tompkins China Painter. Born in 1874 in Clutton, Somerset, England. Daughter of George and Sarah (nee Beachim). Margaret died ...
Goatcher, James, b. 1879
Artist and theatre scene painter and designer who was a member of the Royal Art Society of New South Wales and of the West Australian ...
McInnes, Violet M., b. 1892
Violet McInnes became well known for her paintings of flowers but also exhibited portraits in the Archibald Prize,alongside works by her husband WB McInnes.
Mechenstok, Bertha Marianne Helene, b. 1894
Bertha Marianne Helene Mechenstok was born in 1894. She was a student at Midland Junction Technical School under Flora Landells in 1912-13.
Shore, Arnold, b. 1897
Influential mid 20th century Melbourne modernist painter, teacher, critic and cartoonist. Shore began his career designing stained glass. In the 1920s he consistently supported Post-Impressionist ...
Shaw, Marina Philomena, b. 1903
Painter, china painter, ceramic sculptor and designer who in the1940s won a scholarship to the Slade School of Art but was unable to take it ...
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Leach-Jones, Alun, b. 1937
Alun Leach-Jones was one of the generation of artists who helped define Australian colourfield art in the 1960s. Hie first came to prominence exhibiting in ...
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Owen, Robert George, b. 1937
Artist, Robert Owen's practice includes sculpture, painting, photography, installation and major public commissions. He has been awarded a John Moore’s Liverpool Exhibition 7 UK prize ...
Harpur, Royston, b. 1938
Painter and poet, Royston Harpur's work has consistently shown his admiration of Japanese Zen gestural abstract forms.
Paramor, Wendy, b. 1938
Wendy Paramor was the only woman painter and sculptor to flourish in the hard edge colour field abstractionist Central Street. She died young, of cancer, ...
Dumbrell, Lesley, b. 1941
Throughout her sustained career Lesley Dumbrell’s painting has been characterised by precise, geometric abstraction. In 1974, at a time when women artists found it difficult ...
Jacks, Robert, b. 1943
Robert Jacks is one of the first generation of Australian artists to take nourishment from the post war American artists, rather than looking to Europe. ...
Makin, Jeffrey, b. 1943
Jeffrey Makin is a renowned Australian artist best known for his en plein air landscape paintings. Active from 1961, his work follows in the tradition ...
Sarmiala-Berger, Kirsti, b. 1947
Painter based in Victoria who was born in Finland and arrived in Australia in 1958.
1956 Olympic Arts Festival, Melbourne

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1956 Olympic Arts Festival, Melbourne. Melbourne’s Cultural Olympiad included five significant exhibitions: architecture and sculpture at the University of Melbourne’s Wilson Hall; painting and drawing ...

Irving, Pamela, b. 1960
Sasse, Alexandra, b. 1963