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Mercier, Emile, b. 1901

Popular and prolific French-New Caledonian born Sydney cartoonist and illustrator.

Merlin Chrome

Merlin Chrome were furniture manufacturers exhibiting with the NSW Furniture Guild Exhibition, Sydney 1958. Photographs illustrate domestic tubular metal furniture.

The Mermaid Fountain

by Bass, Tom.

Private Garden, Cremorne, NSW

Boyd, Merric, b. 1888

Merric Boyd's organic decorative ceramics led him to be credited as the father of studio pottery in Australia. He was also a dominant figure in ...

Atchison, Michael, b. 1933

Late 20th century Adelaide cartoonist and children's book illustrator. Atchinson was a regular contributor to Punch magazine and from 1968 he worked as the daily ...

Gerstl, Michael, b. 1908

Michael Gerstl was a Viennese designer who emigrated to Australia in 1947 to set up Gerstl, a cabinetmaking business with many European immigrant clients. Commissions ...

Armstrong, Mick, b. 1903

Prolific mid twentieth century war and political cartoonist and designer. Armstrong contributed to a number of publications including the Argus, the Sydney Sun, Smith's Weekly, ...

Miethke, Adelaide, b. 1881

Teacher, inspector, unionist and organiser, in South Australia. When the former Women Assistants' Association (SA) became the Women Teachers' Association in 1906 she was elected ...

Mackinlay / McKinlay, Miguel, b. 1895

Painter Miguel Mackinlay was born in Spain to a Spanish mother and Scottish father. He studied at Perth Technical School in Western Australia under J.W. ...

Brown, Mike, b. 1938

Significant late 20th century contemporary artist. One of the founders of the Annandale Imitation Realists of the early 1960s.

Lovett, Mildred Esther, b. 1880

Painter, pastellist, lithographer, sculptor and china painter, born in Hobart Lovett succeeded Sydney Long as Julian Ashton's assistant teacher in Sydney. An influential teacher, her ...

Beatham-Mills, A. M.

Exhibited with the West Australian Society of Arts in 1952.

Mills, Frank Edward, b. 1901

Painter and teacher was born in Greenfield, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. Mills exhibited with the West Australian Society of Arts. Linocuts and watercolours were his ...

Miller, Marie

Weaver Marie Miller, who arrived from England in 1915, started weaving in 1945 and built up a network of clients all over Australia. She taught ...

Miller, Godfrey, b. 1893

The New Zealand born Godfrey Miller became one of Australia's most admired artists of the mid-twentieth century. His shyness, combined with the way he continued ...