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Williams, Deborah, b. 1967
Melbourne based visual artist known for her keen observations of dogs through which she explores the distinct presence of the canine breed and its relationship ...
Williams, John, b. 1933
Williams was a self-taught photographer with an active career beginning in the 1960s. He travelled in Europe through the late 1960s returning to Australia in ...
Williams, Ray Forest, b. 1921
Williams was a career Royal Australian Navy officer (retired 1971) who also co-founded the surfwear brand Pratts with his brother Bill, making board shorts and ...
Williamson, Rene, b. 1898
Rene Williamson was typical of many female artists during the inter war years of the twentieth century who hade a career out of painting floral ...
Williamson, Liz, b. 1949
Textile artist Liz Williamson began weaving in the late 1970s. Sometimes wearable, sometimes for display, her artworks have been exhibited and collected in Japan, Canada, ...
Willson, John Henry, b. 1822
Architect, decorator and scene painter. As city architect he designed the present facade and vestibule of the Sydney Town Hall as well as the Woolloomooloo ...
Borlase, Nancy Wilmot, b. 1914
New Zealand-born Nancy Wilmot Borlase arrived in Sydney in 1937, studying sculpture under Lyndon Dadswell under space restrictions in her small bed-sit forced a change ...
Wilshire, Alice Emily, b. 1848
Sketcher, second daughter of Austin Forrest Wilshire, a Sydney merchant, and Eliza, née Pitt, married Frank Lord in Sydney 1871. Her undated pencil sketch on ...
Wilshire, Isabel Eliza, b. 1846
Sketcher, eldest daughter of Austin Forrest Wilshire and Eliza, née Pitt, married Edward Southwell Ruthven on 31 March 1874. Her pencil drawing 'Garden Island' is ...
Wilshire, Rosalie, b. 1866
Sydney-based poet and illustrator whose oil and watercolour paintings included landscapes, still lifes and shell studies. She had a book of poetry published illustrated with ...
Wilshire, William Pitt, b. 1807
Native colonial whose claim to fame as first-born Australian artist belied the fact he took up landscape only because of the threat of photography to ...
Wilson, James, b. 1804
James Armstrong Wilson was a portrait and figure painter born in Scotland. A resident of Sydney and surrounding areas he drowned in a storm with ...
Wilson, Ambrose
sketcher and teacher, in Sydney. An inscription attributes the sketch '[Country] House of Sir Francis Forbes, Emu Plains, Nepean' (ML) to him. Two of his ...
Wilson, Bessie, b. 1836
A flower painter who died young.
Wilson, Charles
Charles Wilson was a professional photographer who brought the sennotype process to Australia. He came to Melbourne in 1862 and claimed to own the Australian ...
Wilson, David Henry, b. 1913
Mid 20th century painter and cartoonist, David Wilson's work is held in the collection of the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.
Wilson, Dorothy Elspeth, b. 1878
Dorothy Elspeth Wilson (Mrs Richard Wardill) was a very talented bookbinder. In 1906 she invited a group of six decorative artists and together they decided ...
Wilson, William H., b. 1795
Wilson was an illustrator and wood-engraver who came to Sydney in 1828 where he took up premises as one of the few commercial artist-engravers in ...
Wilson, William John, b. 1833
Scene painter and stage designer for various London and Sydney based theatre companies. Wilson also painted Australian coastal scenes, rural English landscapes and views in ...
Wilson, William Hardy, b. 1881
Wilson was a Sydney-based interwar architect, artist, author, cartographer, orientalist and futurist. Furniture and furnishings by Wilson are known. He documents many historic houses and ...