Alyawarre speaker and senior woman at Arawerre (in the north of Utopia), Northern Territory. A skilled batik artist and painter, her work is in the ...
Lavinia Maud Lawson married Les McDonaugh on 22 December 1955. She financially and emotionally supported McDonaugh through his career until her death in 1993.
Trawlwoolway artist born on Cape Barren Island who takes an experimental approach to the Aboriginal traditions of basket weaving and shell necklace making.
A Luritja speaker from Mt Liebig, Maudie Peterson transferred the painting skills she learnt decorating coolamons and boomerangs onto works on canvas in the mid ...
Spate was a lecturer in art history at Sydney University with major publications on Australian and European artists (notably Monet). She was also involved in ...
Ceramicist whose pottery was informed by the artist's sense of clay's sacred purpose within traditional ceremonial life at the artist's home in Weipa. Her pots ...
Mary Baramba is an Indigenous artist born in 1938. Her language group is Eastern Kunwinjku. Baramba is best known for her large fish collecting baskets ...
Joan Kerr was the editor for two important publications on Australian artists, The Dictionary of Australian Artists: Painters, Sketchers, Photographers and Engravers to 1870 (Oxford ...
Little began her career as a fashion designer with a dress-making shop in 5-Ways, Paddington under the name Jeanne Mitchell. Her mother had worked as ...
Anmatyerre artist who resides at Yuelamu (Mt Allan), although she has also spent time with her mother in Hermannsburg (NT). Hazel Hawke, the wife of ...
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, ...
After first working in batik, Kwementyaye (Kathleen) Petyarre turned to painting in 1987. Her precise paintings of her country and her culture led to her ...