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Reynolds, P. E., b. 1848

Printer, publisher and art print and bookseller active in Elizabeth street Melbourne by circa 1875 and with branch in George Sydney from 1886. Produced 'The ...

Hawthorne, Heliodore, b. 1895

Painter, teacher and co-founder of Undergrowth: A Magazine of Youth and Ideals, 1925-1929. Worked at the Small Arms Factory, Lithgow NSW manufacturing guns 1942-1945 and ...

Harvey, Anthony John Heriot, b. 1930

Harvey was a designer,sculptor, cartoonist, illustrator, print-maker, map maker and author. He also had an extensive career as an educator in Victoria. Especially noted for ...

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 ...

Miller, Max, b. 1940

Wiradjuri sculptor, painter and printmaker, Miller was one of the champions of the etching revival in Sydney in the 1970s and 80s. He established a ...

Wong-Hoo-Foon, Stanley, b. 1940

Late 20th century Chinese born Melbourne painter and commercial artist. Produced art at the Australian Print Workshop APW

Draffin, Nicholas William, b. 1943

Nicholas Draffin, who started his career as Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings at the National Gallery of Victoria, was the first Curator of Prints ...

Whitelaw, Bridget Elizabeth, b. 1950

Bridget Whitelaw will long be remembered as one of the two curators who created Golden Summers, the first exhibition to define Australian Impressionism. Her career ...

Martin, Mandy, b. 1952

One of the activist women artists who emerged in the mid-1970s, later turned from overtly political posters and industrial landscapes to painting powerful landscapes of ...

de Gruchy, Ian, b. 1952

Ian de Gruchy is best known for his large digitised projections of slide and video projections on the walls of public buildings.

1956 Olympic Arts Festival, Melbourne

by Rodriquez, John.

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 ...