Raised in an artistic family Francis was diverse in her art-making, fearlessly experimenting with techniques and media. Equally diverse in her working life, she combined ...
A sketcher of early buildings, drawing teacher, she taught model drawing in Sydney in the early twentieth century. Bell-Brown also painted on china and produced ...
Mid 20th century painter and cartoonist. Baird was a foundation member of the Society of Australian Black and White Artists, along with 24 other men. ...
Glaze specialist who worked on the development of Bendigo Pottery's Langley ware in the 1910s before starting his own pottery in Castlemaine, later working for ...
Influential Federation era Adelaide painter, illustrator and art teacher. Ashton, the father of painter Will Ashton, is best known for establishing the Academy of Arts, ...
Popular and influential mid 20th century Sydney and Melbourne cartoonist and illustrator. Bancks is best known as the creator of Ginger Meggs and for a ...
Early 20th century painter and illustrator and the younger brother of the painter Henry J. Crisp. James Crisp lived alternatively in Sydney and California for ...
Daplyn was an English born painter, art teacher, journalist, and arts administrator. Although his work is little known today, he was an important early advocate ...
Frederick James 'Fred' Elliott, 1864-1949, was a prolific watercolour painter and lithographer, active in Sydney from the 1890s to the 1920s, specialising in marine subjects.
A painter and graphic artist whose book of pirates featured the largest colour linocuts produced by an Australian artist at that time. He also produced ...
Early 20th century Indigenous Sydney shellworkers. The first recorded commercial sales of shellwork is from the late 1800s. Indigenous women sold their work mainly to ...
Mid 20th century Sydney freelance cartoonist and publisher who contributed to publications including the Bulletin, Smith's Weekly and The Comic Australian.