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Aisbett, Norman Warwick, b. 1921
Mid 20th century Western Australian cartoonist, painter, illustrator and sculptor. Aisbett was a member of the WA chapter of the Australian Black and White Artists ...
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.
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.
Bayliss, Joan Janet, b. 1925
Bayliss pioneered use of art in psychology for treating children with behavioural problems. She also raised money for Alzheimer's research via her artwork.
Bennett, Portia Mary, b. 1898
Portia Bennett trained at the Royal Art Society School under Dattilo Rubbo and then at the Julian Ashton Art school where she was friendly with ...
Clifton, Romola, b. 1935
Romola Clifton was born in 1935. She was educated at St Hilda's and the Slade School in London 1953-55. She became a full-time artist following ...
Cooper, Revel, b. 1934
Revel Cooper is a key figure in the Carrolup School of Nyungar landscape painting.
Crowe, Irwin F., b. 1908
Painter and craft worker who shared the West Australian section of the 1959 Perth Prize for Contemporary Art with Maurice Stubbs and was also awarded ...
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 ...
Currie, Herbert Kitchener, b. 1915
Herbert Kitchener Currie was born in 1915. He was a silversmith, woodworker, leatherworker and teacher. Currie ceased work in 1988 when failing eyesight, due to ...
Dutkiewicz, Wladyslaw, b. 1918
Dutkiewicz was an expressionist, constructivist, abstract and semi-abstract painter and occasional sculptor who was also involved in theatrical design, directing and acting. Dutkiewicz ran theatre ...
Erickson, Frederica Lucy, b. 1908
Wildflower painter, botanical illustrator, author, naturalist and teacher whose many honours included the Order of Australia (Gen Div.) for service to the arts and an ...
Fry, Ella J. Osborn, b. 1916
Ella Fry was painter, teacher, printmaker and pianist whose prints had a dark, almost surrealist quality reflecting the uncertain times in which she lived. She ...
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 ...
Grey-Smith, Guy, b. 1913
A painter influenced by Cezanne and Matisse whose painting transposed European modernist ideas into an Australian context. His neighbours in Darlington near Perth, the Holmes ...
Grey-Smith, Guy Edward, b.
Painter and potter who was born in Wagin, WA. He won many prizes between 1955 and 1978.
Grey-Smith, Helen Dorothy, b.
Successful Western Australian textile artist, designer and painter (and husband of artist Guy Grey-Smith) whose clients included the Perth Council Chambers and the Reserve Bank ...
Hammond, Mary, b. 1928
A painter, pastellist and sketcher, in 1992 the Age reported Hammond as saying, "I am not interested in painting decorative pictures. I always want to ...
Hart, Reynold, b. 1938
One of the most celebrated of the Carrolup children artists who created work at the Carrolup Native Settlement in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
Hawkins, Sheila, b. 1905
Mid 20th century painter, illustrator and author. War artist and children's book illustrator.