An early advocate of indigenous art, Rex Battarbee represented Arrernte artists in his Alice Springs home, which he later turned into the Tmara-Mara Gallery.
Single-minded in her desire to be an artist, Stella Bowen studied briefly under Margaret Preseon before leaving Adelaide at 20 to study art in London. ...
Norman Bel Geddes, b.1893, was an industrial designer who designed automobiles and other products. Notably, Bel Geddes designed a corporate emblem for General Motors Holden ...
Maude Kettle lived and worked in Tasmania. She began making hooked rugs in the late 1930s and continued until the mid-1970s, mostly in geometric designs.
Sculptor, art historian and critic, came to Sydney from Frankfurt-on-Main in her native Germany in 1930 and quickly became prominent as a professional sculptor.
German Bauhaus artist whose diverse modernist practice reflects the upheaval of the second World War, when he was deported to Australia, but continued to practice ...
Mansell was a painter, illustrator and theatre designer whose work diverse artistic practices, which ranged from painting to set design, were very much influenced by ...
The New Zealand born Godfrey Miller became one of Australia's most admired artists of the mid-twentieth century. His shyness, combined with the way he continued ...
A china painter, leather and poker worker, embroiderer, fabric painter and bookbinder. Whilst working at her family's hardware store she studied at Hornsby Technical College.
Ann Gilmore Rees, an English printmaker, designer and illustrator, migrated to Sydney Australia in 1939. She regularly exhibited with the Contemporary Group in Sydney from ...
Early 20th century Regional Queensland painter, photographer and craftworker. As well as inheriting a strong Protestant work ethic and sense of duty, Iris had initiative ...