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of Cooktown, Oscar, b. 1877
'Oscar of Cooktown' is known only by the one book of drawings which was fortuitously preserved in the collection of the National Museum of Australia, ...
Nash, Ossie, b. 1909
An artist who communicated his daily life through his hand decorated envelopes and letters that he sent to his family during WWII. They must have ...
Marten, A. P., b.
Colonial female watercolourist and sketcher who painted homesteads and landscapes whilst collecting and colouring photographs. She only stayed in Queensland for a short time.
Dawson, Paula, b. 1954
Paula Dawson has pioneered the development of art-holography in Australia.
Pedersen, Ella Lilian, b. 1898
Ella Lilian Pedersen was a painter, illuminator, illustrator, weaver, potter, leather-worker, embroiderer, jeweller and enameller. In 1941, with Mona Elliott, she founded the Half Dozen ...
Clarke, Percy
Widely travelled Colonial era painter, sketcher and author.
Eagles, Percy, b. 1900
Percy Eagles was a graphic artist whose astonishing skill with the pencil is demonstrated in his numerous portrait studies. There would be few contemporary artists ...
Phillips, Charles
Charles Phillips was a sketcher who made several sketches in Queensland and Victoria in about 1860 depicting life on cattle stations.
Murray-Prior, Mary, b. 1845
Murray-Prior spent most of her childhood on the family property, Wyangarie, on the Richmond River. She was friendly with the local Aboriginal population and took ...
Henning, Rachel Biddulph, b. 1826
Sketcher and letter-writer, she is primarily known for her letters which describe rural life in Australia, particularly that on her brother's Queensland property, in the ...
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Rees, Lloyd, b. 1895
Lloyd Rees began his career as an architectural draughtsman, and established his reputation as an artist with detailed pen and pencil drawings of around Sydney. ...
Reid, Mark, b. 1842
Mark Watt Reid, Scottish sketcher and station manager, arrived in New South Wales in 1858. His drawing of Woodstock, the property he managed in 1865 ...
Austin, Robert, b. 1825
Surveyor, Austin led an exploring party north-east of Perth in 1854 and consequently published a journal of the expedition which included a couple of his ...
Curtis, Robert Emerson, b. 1898
Mid 20th century illustrator and artist. In 1922 Curtis travelled to the USA with his great friend, the pioneer filmmaker, Charles Chauvel. There he developed ...
Dibdin, Robert Lowes, b. 1843
The "gentleman artist", Dibdin is considered Rockhampton's first resident painter, also an actor, an estate agent, and a gold buyer. Dibdin was the founding secretary ...
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Dickerson, Robert, b. 1924
Robert Dickerson is a Sydney born figurative painter since the late 1940s and a printmaker since the 1971. Frequently reoccurring subjects in his work include ...
Dixon, Robert
Under Thomas Mitchell in the NSW Surveyor-General's Department, Dixon pioneered surveys in areas south-east of Sydney but was suspended for twice publishing maps without prior ...
Heimann, Rolf, b. 1940
Late 20th century German born Melbourne cartoonist, puzzle maker and author. In 1974 he protested against French atmospheric nuclear testing by sailing his yacht La ...
Neville-Rolfe, Harriet Jane, b. 1850
A painter and sketcher. During her time spent living in central west Queensland, she sketched and painted the bush.
MacLennan, Rosemary, b.
Irish Catholic feminist and socialist admirer of Georgia O'Keefe, MacLennan worked in Queensland in 1978, teaching at a girls' school and doing symbolic plant drawings.