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Jacks, Robert, b. 1943

Robert Jacks is one of the first generation of Australian artists to take nourishment from the post war American artists, rather than looking to Europe. ...

Klippel, Robert, b. 1920

While Klippel is best known as a sculptor, he also worked in industrial design. Klippel's interest in sculpture began during WW2 while making scale models ...

Lindsay, Robert

Matier, Robert Alexander, b. 1901

Western Australian painter who was awarded The Claude Hotchin Prize for Watercolour three times in 1958, 1968 and 1970.

Robertshaw, Freda Rhoda, b. 1916

Painter of neoclassical figure paintings and landscapes, Robertshaw knew lean times as a commercial artist, exhibited with the Society of Artists, the Royal Art Society ...

Robertson, Barbara

Painter, working in Adelaide since the 1940s. While discussing 'In Context: Australian Women Modernists' Bruce James singled out Barbara Robertson and Erica McGilchrist.

Boyd, Robin (Gerard Penleigh), b. 1919

Mid 20th century Melbourne Modernist architect, author, critic and illustrator. Born into the artistic Boyd dynasty, he was a partner of the Grounds, Romberg and ...

Norling, Robin, b. 1939

Norling began his career in sign-writing, later training in painting at the National Art School, Sydney, and the Royal College of Art, London, UK. He ...

Robinson, John Harold, b. 1940

Painter, printmaker and teacher.

Gordon, Robyn, b. 1943

Robyn Gordon is a Sydney based artist who works across a particularly wide range of media, while retaining a thematic interest in the landscape and ...

Latham, Robyne, b. 1956

Melbourne based Indigenous artist who works predominantly with sculptural ceramics and bronzes to address the tensions between the secular and the sacred and the paradox ...