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Aarons, Anita, b. 1912
Anita Aarons had a diverse career working as a jeweller, sculptor, art administrator, radio commentator, teacher and art editor for an architecture publication, while living ...
Bruce, Aadje , b. 1934
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 ...
Currie, Betsey, b. 1905
Painter and teacher who had a long association with J. W. R. Linton and worked at the Linton Institute of Art. She changed her name ...
Bennett, Dorothy, b. 1923
Dorothy Bennett was introduced to Aboriginal art when she was a medical secretary accompanying Dr Stuart Scougall on an excursion to the Northern Territory. She ...
Cummings, Elisabeth, b. 1934
Painter, born in Brisbane, Qld. Resident of Sydney, NSW. After losing her studio in the 1994 bushfires, Cummings used the insurance money to build a ...
Blair Barber, Elizabeth, b. 1909
Elizabeth Blair Barber was a painter who exhibited with the Perth Society of Artists, the Contemporary Art Society, the Western Australian Women's Society of Fine ...
Greenhalgh, Audrey, b. 1903
A largely self-taught artist best known for her oil paintings of natural subjects, most often the sea. Her interest in abstraction meant her work in ...
Gude, Eleanor, b. 1915
An accomplished painter from an early age, Eleanor Gude, or Nornie as she was known, took up her studies at the age of 15 before ...
Healy, Evelyn, b. 1912
Mid 20th century Melbourne and Sydney political illustrator and painter. Healy illustrated Helen Palmer's Beneath the Southern Cross, published in 1954 for the Eureka Stockade ...
Goodale, Jane, b. 1926
Anthropologist Goodale spent many years studying and photographing the native people of Oceania, especially the Tiwi people of Northern Australia.
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Appleton, Jean, b. 1911
Appleton was a painter and craftworker who studied at East Sydney Technical College and at the Westminster School, London. After seeing French sculptor Maillol's work ...
Bayliss, Joan Janet, b. 1925
Bayliss pioneered use of art in psychology for treating children with behavioural problems. She also raised money for Alzheimer's research via her artwork.
Gough, Joan, b. 1918
Gough's cubist study 'The Gardener' was among the first modern works to be exhibited at the Royal Tasmanian Art Society. Always at the forefront of ...
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Joyce, Ena Elizabeth, b. 1926
Sydney born painter who worked in watercolour, oil gouache and pastel. A longstanding member of the Australian Watercolour Institute, Joyce exhibited widely in Sydney between ...
King, Inge, b. 1918
King is a prolific and successful sculptor. Her involvement in the Australian art scene throughout her career has been immense and she is well recognised ...
Hudson, Helen Leslie, b. 1915
Amateur artist who worked in oils, watercolour, charcoal and pencil. Based at "The Studio", Harkaway, VIC - formerly the Studio of Jessie Traill
Groblicka, Lidia, b. 1933
Polish-born painter and printmaker who migrated to Australia in 1967 and now lives and works in Adelaide, South Australia.
Erickson, Frederica Lucy, b. 1908
Wildflower painter, botanical illustrator, author, naturalist and teacher whose many honours included the Order of Australia (Gen Div.) for service to the arts and an ...
Mann, Gillian, b. 1939
The artist has work in National Gallery of Australia collection.