Pioneering Australian inventor and engineer whose innovations have been employed in the automotive, aeronautical, biomedical and telecommunications industries.
Mid 20th century German-born Sydney painter, theatrical designer and cartoonist. He moved in some of the most significant modern Australian art circles, associating with the ...
Maryke Degeus was one of the many European migrants whose entry into Australia after World War Two transformed our culture. She was associated with Jon ...
A graphic artist and teacher who studied at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and the George Bell School. French also exhibited with the Victorian Artists' ...
Furey was a Society of Designers for Industry foundation member, an International Design Institute of Australia Vice President, a Society of Industrial Designers President amongst ...
Guertner was the editor of Australian House and Garden from its first issue in December 1948. She promoted interior design and contemporary architecture by publishing ...
Mid 20th century Melbourne painter and printmaker. Son of L. Bernard Hall, he was interested in Theosophy and the Contemporary Art Society (Victorian Branch).
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 ...