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Herzger, Gertrude, b. 1901

According to interviews and an investigation by architect Bruce Eeles, Herzger studied at the Bauhaus, Weimar in 1919-1920. Herzger drawings for Walter Gropius's design for ...

Cant, James Montgomery, b. 1911

Cant was a painter, printmaker, stage designer and textile designer who also worked as a display officer assisting with Aboriginal display at Australian Museum, Sydney, ...

Herbst, Gerard, b. 1911

Herbst was a designer for Prestige (Fabrics) Limited, an illustrator and later principal lecturer at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in industrial design, graphics. In ...

Taplin, Bea, b. 1911

Taplin was an interior designer and textile designer working from a studio in Toorak Road, South Yarra, later "Colour Cottage", Murphy Street, South Yarra. Her ...

Foster, Una, b. 1912

Foster was a painter, printmaker and textile artist. She studied at East /Sydney Technical College (diploma 1934), later in England 1950-51. Her work was widely ...

Orlay, Susan, b. 1913

Orlay "trained in furniture design and graphic arts at the Schools of Applied Art in Budapest, Stuttgart and Vienna". While studying, she worked as a ...

Foster, Isabel, b. 1921

Foster works in textiles with stitching techniques, knotting, crochet, in a eclectic range of forms. He has a special interest in recycling and repurposing materials. ...

Crooke, Ray, b. 1922

Crooke began his career as an artist at a Melbourne advertising agency while taking courses as Swinburne Technical College. After 1939-45 war service, he taught, ...

Joynes, Heather, b. 1923

Joynes was an embroiderer and needleworker working in Sydney. She was an active member of the Embroiderers Guild NSW, exhibiting in their exhibitions and other ...

Kerry, Paula, b. 1923

Kerry was an associate of Bill Onus, principal of Aboriginal Enterprises. Her work with Onus began in the late 1940 and she became one of ...

Salmon, William, b. 1928

William Salmon described his art as emerging from the landscape. He trained initially in graphic arts at Swinburne Technical College and worked as a textile ...

Rodriquez, John, b. 1929

Rodriquez is a textile designer and manufacturer with training at Melbourne Technical College (later RMIT). He studied industrial design and begun making greeting cards in ...

Rodriquez, John , b. 1929

See John Rodriquez (textile designer)

de Vocht, Shirley, b. 1929

De Vocht was a designer working across textiles and ceramics in the Sydney region. She was especially adept in rendering native flora and fauna. She ...

Kaldor, John, b. 1936

After arriving Australia & completing secondary school, Kaldor trained in design under Johannes Itten at Textilfachschule, Zürich. His first position was with Seker Fabrics, UK, ...