After studying painting under Margaret Preston, who she travelled with to Paris and London, she taught craft to shell-shocked soldiers. On returning to Australia she ...
William Ricketts is well-known for his handmodelled ceramic sculptures and vessels with modelled heads and figures of Aboriginals. He valued the spirituality of the Aboriginal ...
An early activist for womens' rights, a theosophist and life long feminist, Bessie Mabel Rischbieth was a well known figure in Perth. Her early training ...
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 ...
Painter, working in Adelaide since the 1940s. While discussing 'In Context: Australian Women Modernists' Bruce James singled out Barbara Robertson and Erica McGilchrist.
Florence Aline Rodway had a splendid career as a portraitist but preferred to do more complex compositions with figures. Together with artists such as Thea ...
Although expressive artist Kenneth Roggenkamp (older brother of the watercolourist Joy Roggenkamp and brother to Cecil (Peter) Roggenkamp ) held very few exhibitions throughout his ...