Barrister, politician and 'an accomplished amateur artist'. Leighton also published several books on the history and archaeology of his native Shropshire, illustrated after his own ...
Melbourne-born, Sydney-based designer and advertising agent whose collection of Papua New Guinean art and artefacts played a significant role in Australia's understanding of Melanesian art ...
British painter and sculptor who was resident in Victoria during the early 1890s. Known mainly for his interest in equestrian subjects, the National Gallery of ...
Conceptual artist concerned with the politics of representation, appropriation and particularly photography, working frequently with text, found images and assemblage.
Madonna Staunton, who spent all her working life in Brisbane, was best known for her precise, assemblages and collages, but she also painted. Her works ...
Painter, teacher and widower of a British Army officer. She became the proprietor of a seminary for young ladies in Sydney and later taught painting ...
painter, illuminator and businessman, was born in London before moving to Australia. He made many well known illuminations, and won a bronze medal at the ...
Sophie Steffanoni was an embroiderer and painter, who, despite exhibiting much of her work and receiving recognition for it, died just as her career was ...
Sculptor and painter who won Lady Hackett's Prize for Figure Drawing in 1912. Steitz was a bachelor, apparently of independent means, who in later life, ...
Single-minded in her desire to be an artist, Stella Bowen studied briefly under Margaret Preseon before leaving Adelaide at 20 to study art in London. ...