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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 ...
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 ...
Draffin, Nicholas William, b. 1943
Nicholas Draffin, who started his career as Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings at the National Gallery of Victoria, was the first Curator of Prints ...
Hutchinson, Max, b. 1925
Max Hutchinson was a founding member of the Society of Designers for Industry in Australia. In 1959, he opened Gallery A, Melbourne. In 1963, he ...
Leggett, Michael Graham, b. 1945
Mike Leggett has film and video work in archives and collections in Europe, Australia, North and South America. He has curated exhibitions of computer mediated ...
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Lynn, Elwyn , b. 1917
Artist, critic and cultural warrior Elwyn (Jack) Lynn was one of the most influential figures in mid-twentieth century Australian art. In the 1950s as his ...
McGilchrist, Erica, b. 1926
A painter, illustrator, dancer and teacher - taught painting at Kew Mental Hospital, was significant in the women's movement, and has had over 40 solo ...
Missingham, Hal, b. 1906
Western Australian born painter, photographer, illustrator and author. He also had an active interest in design issues authoring a book, "Design Focus" for architects, craftworkers ...
Oldfield, Alan, b. 1943
Alan Oldfield’s early work was characterised by crisp clean abstract paintings which combined a hedonist sensibility with the austerity of hard edge abstraction. His later ...
Phipps, Jennifer
Pinson, Peter Leslie, b. 1943
Stringer, John, b. 1937
John Stringer was the innovative exhibition officer at the National Gallery of Victoria who was the guiding spirit behind The Field of 1968. Later he ...
Thomas, Daniel, b. 1931
Daniel Thomas is has been a continuing major force in Australian art curatorship since he was first appointed to the Art Gallery of NSW as ...
Thoms, Albie, b. 1941
Thoms was a theatre director, film maker and curator. Founder of Ubu Films, editor of Ubu News, co-founder of the Ginger Meggs Memorial School of ...
Tuckson, Margaret, b. 1921
Tuckson was a potter working first in low-fired earthenware. She expanded her interest to Papua New Guinea ceramic traditions publishing "The Traditional Pottery of Papau ...
Waterlow, Nick, b. 1941
Nick Waterlow was the inspirational director for a number of Biennales of Sydney, commencing in 1979. He later became the Director of the Ivan Dougherty ...
Wright, William, b. 1937
As well as an extensive career as an artist Bill Wright became one of the most influential curators of contemporary art in Australia. After directing ...