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Abbott, Barbara, b. 1928
Sydney-based female sketcher, printmaker and textile artist who passed her final assessment in art school by completing an Aboriginal reference workbook she started in her ...
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Boyd, Arthur, b. 1920
A member of the gifted Boyd family, and grandson of his namesake, the painter Arthur Merric Boyd, Arthur first attended night classes at Melbourne's National ...
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Blackman, Charles, b. 1928
The Antipodean artist Charles Blackman was best known for his paintings of schoolgirls and the whimsy of Alice in Wonderland. He was a part of ...
Churcher, Betty, b. 1931
Betty Churcher, who was the first woman to head both a state and national art gallery, had an extraordinary career in arts education and administration ...
Cook, Allon, b. 1907
Allon Cook was born in 1907. He was a painter who exhibited with the West Australian Society of Arts and with the Perth Society of ...
Darbyshire, Beatrice Dean, b. 1901
A talented artist, Beatrice Darbyshire exhibited in England and Perth throughout the 1920s and 1930s.
Cottrell, Dorothy, b. 1902
Mid 20th century sketcher, cartoonist and novelist.
Dubois, Cyril
Mid 20th century caricaturist and war artist.
Duterrau, Benjamin, b. 1767
Duterrau arrived in Australia when he was 65. Already an established artist, he produced many Australian 'firsts' including 'The Conciliation' - the first history painting ...
Cook, Eileen, b. 1906
Eileen Cook was born in 1906. She was a sculptor and modeller. Cook earned her living as a commercial artist, primarily as an illustrator, drawing ...
Garmonsway, Alex, b. 1913
Mid 20th century New Zealand cartoonist, sketcher, children's book illustrator and bookplate designer who worked in Australia before the Second World War.
Finey, George, b. 1895
Mid 20th century Auckland and Sydney left-wing caricaturist, cartoonist, painter, sculptor and collage artist. Infamous for his bohemian lifetsyle.
Goodchild, Doreen, b. 1900
Painter, modeller, potter and ceramicist, Doreen Goodchild was born in Adelaide, South Australia. She married fellow artist John Goodchild. Her career took a back seat ...
Guthrie, Bessie, b. 1905
Bessie Jean (née Mitchell) Guthrie was a designer, publisher and feminist. She was the first woman to hold a solo design exhibition at the East ...
Coventry, Frederick Halford, b. 1905
A painter, muralist, stained glass artist, glass painter & etcher, printmaker, poster-designer, art teacher, book-illustrator and designer, Frederick Halford Coventry's art practice encompassed both the ...
Hardy, Frank, b. 1917
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 ...
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Abbott, Harold, b. 1906
An official war artist during the Second World War, Harold Abbott was an accomplished portraitist who had studied at the Royal Academy of Art in ...
Bare, Harold
Emigrating to Australia after World War I, Harold Bare settled in Liverpool, NSW where he designed hundreds of homes and buildings in the area and ...
Heap, Amy Elizabeth, b. 1874
Painter, illustrator, craftworker, photographer and commercial artist. During WWI and into the mid 1930's, Heap worked as a photographer and illustrator for Western Australian Newspapers.
Bell, George Frederick Henry, b. 1878
The artist George Bell is best known for his influential role as a teacher in Melbourne and his promotion of modernism in Australia.