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Peters, Dot
Dot Peters of Healesville, Victoria, is a basket and eel trap weaver who won the Australia Council for the Arts' 2002 Red Ochre Award. Taught ...
Puantulura, Madeline, b. 1948
Giblet, 'Queen' Elizabeth, b. 1940
'Queen' Elizabeth Giblet is a maker of Bora beads and puunyas (dilly-bags). Her bags are crafted from various natural materials including wahtul grass, pandanus leaf ...
Bunbury, Margaret Richardson, b. 1795
Lady Bunbury brought with her from Ireland a noted passion for such gentle pursuits as embroidery, sketching, specimen collecting and visiting. Her residence, Charterhouse at ...
Richardson-Bunbury, Margaret, b. 1795
Lady Margaret Richardson-Bunbury was born in 1795. She was an embroiderer and garden designer. Lady Richardson-Bunbury formed the first Western Australian branch of the British ...
Ridley, Marjorie Alice, b. 1897
Painter and basket-weaver. Charles Hamilton wrote of her 1939 exhibition work, "A most interesting exhibit of articles made from Guildford grass by Miss M. A ...
Robertson, Jennifer
Canberra-based textile designer who employs a range of complex weave structures in her work.
Djunginy, Robyn
Robyn Djunginy is a daughter of acclaimed artist Ngulmarmar and is a sister of the renowned artists George Milpurrurru and Charlie Djurritjini. Perhaps best known ...
Rolland, Norma Maria, b. 1906
Embroiderer and weaver, Rolland set up a studio in Western Australian where she wove tweeds, lampshades, bright-coloured woollen knee-rugs, vividly coloured linen tablemats, guest towels ...
Richardson, Maude Rose, b. 1879
Maude Rose Richardson was born in 1879. With her friends Alma Pericles and Mrs W. E. Stephenson, she formed the West Australian Women Painters and ...
Rosenstengel, Paula, b. 1920
Paula Rosenstengel had an artistic upbringing but her production of works on paper did not extend much beyond the 1940s, however, she experimented with weaving ...
Barkus, Rosie, b. 1959
A self taught lino-block textile designer from Thursday Island in the Torres Strait. Born in 1959 Barkus's work is held in most major national collections ...
Ludwick, Ruby
Ruby Ludwick of the Gunganji tribal group of Yarrabah, North Queensland is a weaver of large floor mats. She uses the technique and style taught ...
Rupert, Nura, b. 1933
Nura Rupert is a long-time member of Ernabella Arts Inc. She travelled to the Edinburgh Festival in 2001 to present 'Milpatjunanyi - Telling Stories in ...
Sailor, Grace, b. 1939
Yorta Yorta weaver who learnt the craft from Gunditjmara weaver Connie Hart, and participated in the 2006 'Our Mob' Exhibition at the Adelaide Festival Centre.
Gabori, Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally, b. 1924
As with other Kaiadilt women, Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori wove grass nets and carved coolamons for many years before she began to paint. Her first ...
Elverd, Sandy, b.
One of Adelaide's pre-eminent fibre artists, Sandy Elverd has a national and international artist profile. She is the recipient of several awards and artist grants ...
Aitken, Sandra
Sandra Aitken of is of Gunditjmara descent and is a weaver, painter, screenprinter and tapestry worker residing in Victoria.
Higgs, Sandra, b. 1962
Kantju weaving artist born in Coen, Queensland. Higgs has made use of a variety of natural fibres to create fish traps, baskets and woven bags.
Egan, Sharyn, b. 1957
Nyoongar painter and natural fibre weaver and sculptor, lives in Fremantle, Western Australia. Egan's work is held in the collections of the Berndt Museum of ...