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Martin, Lucille

Degeus, Maryke, b. 1917

Maryke Degeus was one of the many European migrants whose entry into Australia after World War Two transformed our culture. She was associated with Jon ...

Mason, Elizabeth

Butters, Matilda

Costume designer. As the wife of would-be politician James Stewart Butters she managed a short but exciting career as spouse--and vote-getter by gaining public attention ...

Kettle, Louisa Maude, b. 1893

Maude Kettle lived and worked in Tasmania. She began making hooked rugs in the late 1930s and continued until the mid-1970s, mostly in geometric designs.

Bolton, Mavis, b. 1927

Bolinger, Donna-May

Artisanal shoemaker and fashion-designer based in Sydney.

George, May, b.

Though she claimed never to have received an art lesson, May Butler George exhibited her miniatures in Melbourne, London and Paris on a regular basis.

Kennedy, Elisabeth May

McDiarmid, David, b. 1952

McDiarmid worked in a wide array of media and styles in his artmaking. After 1975, all his work focussed on gay experience, and he is ...

McGorman, Lee

Textile artist who collaborated with Dawn Fitzpatrick

McKail, Alan, b. 1888

A Melburnian auctioneer, fashion and theatre designer known for his costumes at Melbourne's Artists' Balls. Contemporary police and media reactions to his more flamboyant costumes ...