Controversial mid 20th century Melbourne author, who worked as an illustrator and cartoonist during the Second World War. Hardy produced 'Troppo Tribune', a camp newspaper ...
Highly regarded Gunditjmara basket weaver and community elder who began weaving in her 60s and facilitated the regeneration of localised Victorian Indigenous weaving practices. Self-taught ...
Michael Hirst was a designer/manufacturer with a small factory in Hawthorn (2-3 workers), dates uncertain. He began designing with Clement Meadmore in 1955 and Hirst ...
Mid 20th century cartoonist and soldier. Five items of correspondence on his contribution to various journals are in the Australian War Memorial, along with some ...
Artist, critic and cultural warrior Elwyn (Jack) Lynn was one of the most influential figures in mid-twentieth century Australian art. In the 1950s as his ...
Sir Sidney Nolan, the son of a Melbourne tram driver, became one of Australia's most celebrated and honoured artists. His Ned Kelly series made him ...
Mary Norrie has been a consistent exhibitior in art prizes throughout Queensland since the late 1950s and was awarded numerous prizes. She was also Queensland's ...
A painter who produced pagan and sexually explicit drawings. She attended East Sydney Technical College but didn't graduate due to the kind of work she ...
Justin O'Brien was known at first for his Byzantine influenced paintings of Christian iconography and later for sun drenched studies of Mediterranean landscapes. He was ...
Illustrator and commercial artist who was born in London and migrated to Australia in the 1940s. Senior wrote and illustrated a number of children's books ...
Shorter is an industrial designer. He studied at Sydney Technical College, worked at Hermann Plastic Moulding (HPM), became head of company with 40 patents and ...