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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 ...
Baker, Allan, b. 1921
Painter, curator, tutor and former window dresser. Baker became Deputy Director of the Art Gallery of Western Australia in 1961. He won numerous prizes.
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Boyd, Arthur, b. 1920
A member of the gifted Boyd family, and grandson of his namesake, the painter Arthur Merric Boyd, Arthur first attended night classes at Melbourne's National ...
Bruce, Aadje , b. 1934
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Benini, Bruno, b. 1925
Photographer Bruno Benini migrated to Australia from Italy in 1935. As a commercial and fashion photographer, Benini captured the works of many Australian and international ...
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 ...
Baxter, Cedric, b. 1930
Commercial artist, cartoonist and painter. Baxter won the Redcliffe Award for Watercolour in 1966 and the Walkley Award for Cartoon of the Year in 1968.
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Blackman, Charles, b. 1928
The Antipodean artist Charles Blackman was best known for his paintings of schoolgirls and the whimsy of Alice in Wonderland. He was a part of ...
Callins, Charles, b. 1887
Queensland naïve artist Charles Callins came into prominence during the 1950s.
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 ...
Collette, Aubrey, b.
Mid 20th century Ceylon-born cartoonist and art teacher.
Cousin, Bruce
Mid 20th century magazine cartoonist.
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.
Armfield, David, b. 1923
Late 20th century Melbourne painter, illustrator and printmaker. This biography concentrates on his black and white work.
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Aspden, David, b. 1935
The largely self-taught painter, David Aspden, established his reputation in the 1960s by painting lyrically beautiful abstracts. In the context of the time, they were ...
Cowen, Don, b. 1920
Don Cowen worked for only a few years in Australia, beginning as a promising younger artist in Brisbane in the early 1950s, before departing for ...
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 ...
Annand, Douglas, b. 1903
One of Australia's best known graphic and poster artists, Douglas Annand also had a distinguished career as a camouflage artist during the Second World War. ...