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Aarons, Anita, b. 1912
Anita Aarons had a diverse career working as a jeweller, sculptor, art administrator, radio commentator, teacher and art editor for an architecture publication, while living ...
Bruce, Aadje , b. 1934
Barker, Caroline, b. 1894
Caroline Barker had a long career in Brisbane as an artist and teacher and for many years, especially after the death of Vida Lahey, was ...
Churcher, Betty, b. 1931
Betty Churcher, who was the first woman to head both a state and national art gallery, had an extraordinary career in arts education and administration ...
Currie, Betsey, b. 1905
Painter and teacher who had a long association with J. W. R. Linton and worked at the Linton Institute of Art. She changed her name ...
Collings, Dahl, b. 1909
Dahl Collings was a painter, commercial artist, graphic and exhibition designer, illustrator, costume and textile designer, photographer and documentary film-maker. Often working in partnership with ...
Danciger, Alice, b. 1914
A painter, theatre and fabric designer who worked with some of the most significant modernist artists in Australia.
Bennett, Dorothy, b. 1923
Dorothy Bennett was introduced to Aboriginal art when she was a medical secretary accompanying Dr Stuart Scougall on an excursion to the Northern Territory. She ...
Wall, Edith, b. 1904
Mid 20th century New Zealand-born, Sydney and Melbourne-based painter, printmaker, cartoonist and art teacher.
Cummings, Elisabeth, b. 1934
Painter, born in Brisbane, Qld. Resident of Sydney, NSW. After losing her studio in the 1994 bushfires, Cummings used the insurance money to build a ...
Blair Barber, Elizabeth, b. 1909
Elizabeth Blair Barber was a painter who exhibited with the Perth Society of Artists, the Contemporary Art Society, the Western Australian Women's Society of Fine ...
Vimpany, Violet Emma, b. 1886
Vimpany painted in oils and watercolours, made etchings, and was an active member of the Art Society of Tasmania, exhibiting with it from 1932 to ...
Ernst, Elizabeth, b. 1915
Ernst's semi-abstract and naturalistic paintings, often consisting of bright colours with lots of black outlining, were auctioned at Deutscher-Menzies in 2002.
Atkinson, Ethel, b. 1887
Potter, leather worker, china painter and designer. Atkinson set up the 'Ceramic Art Studio' with business partner Ada Newman. A regular exhibitor with the Arts ...
Ellis, Frances D, b. 1900
Goodchild, Doreen, b. 1900
Painter, modeller, potter and ceramicist, Doreen Goodchild was born in Adelaide, South Australia. She married fellow artist John Goodchild. Her career took a back seat ...
Graham, Annemarie, b. 1925
Austrian born Graham spent much of her career travelling and working extensively overseas. She worked at the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, the department of the Museo ...
Greenhalgh, Audrey, b. 1903
A largely self-taught artist best known for her oil paintings of natural subjects, most often the sea. Her interest in abstraction meant her work in ...
Gude, Eleanor, b. 1915
An accomplished painter from an early age, Eleanor Gude, or Nornie as she was known, took up her studies at the age of 15 before ...
Guthrie, Bessie, b. 1905
Bessie Jean (née Mitchell) Guthrie was a designer, publisher and feminist. She was the first woman to hold a solo design exhibition at the East ...