Mary Jane and two of her sisters were avid papier-mâchè modellers, creating dozens of wax implanted, hair coated models of sheep, kangaroos and cattle.
As a portrait painter, Walker trained in Europe at institutions such as the Slade School in London and Colarossi's in Paris. She received commissions from ...
Embroider, lived at Alstonville, NSW. A flower arrangement by Johnston, completed on the first Singer Sewing Machine and dated around 1890 is owned by the ...
Colonial female painter and drawer of the famous Macarthur family who documented her life in pictures that are now missing. Fortunately she refers to these ...
A woodcarver and embroiderer, Mary Dods actively contributed to the interior designs of her husbands architectural projects. An American by birth she used Australian motifs ...
Clarke was a school headmistress and painter who completed four watercolours on two mounts c.1870-1930, each signed 'M.C.' that was bequeathed to the State Library ...
An illustrator and Melbourne Theosophist, she designed covers for the Victorian Artists' Society in the 1890s and was a friend of Max Meldrum and sister-in-law ...
Settled in Victoria. Although a mother to nine children, Gibson still had time to create the 'Friendship Quilt' now exhibited at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, ...
Working in the same league as Frank Lloyd Wright and Hermann von Holst, Marion eventually married and worked with Walter Burley Griffin on public and ...
Painter, decorative artist and amateur architect in Duntroon, Canberra. Painted meticulously executed botanical paintings and was known for her medical dispensary.
English colonial male lithographer, watercolourist, and draughtsman. His diverse career included writing and illustrating children's books, teaching, publishing newspapers, public speaking and founding music and ...
English colonial wood engraver and painter who worked with his brother Frederick on numerous illustrations for a range of Sydney newspapers. He had many jobs ...
One of three artistic sisters from Tasmania, she was a colonial sculptor who studied in London and exhibited in Paris, working in pottery and fashioning ...