Originally a mathematics teacher, the English born Blamire Young established himself as an illustrator, painter, designer, writer and art critic. An article in 'Art and ...
Zander was manager of the Redfern Galleries in London and organised the 'Exhibition of British Contemporary Art' and accompanied it to Australia in 1933. She ...
Danish painter, printmaker and theatre designer. Zimmerdahl produced oils, watercolours, drawings, linocuts and illustrations which she exhibited during her period in Sydney in the 1920s ...
Roy De Maistre, along with Roland Wakelen and Grace Cossington Smith was one of the pioneers of Post Impressionism in Australia. Later, in England, he ...
Colonial female who painted for distraction, while her family was parodied in her nephew's novels as the product of a nouveau-riche convict father, whose descendants ...
Hearn Bros. and Stead was started by emigre twin brothers Henry and Ernest Hearn, sons of cabinetmaker/chair maker Walter Vincent Hearn. The company is known ...
Smith and Miles was a Sydney-based graphic arts trade house. Smith and Miles was perhaps the largest tradehouse in the Southern Hemisphere with over 200 ...
Early 20th century Indigenous Sydney shellworkers. The first recorded commercial sales of shellwork is from the late 1800s. Indigenous women sold their work mainly to ...
Buzacotts (Qld) Ltd designed & manufactured chrome steel tube furniture under the brand "Steeluxe". (NB: Design historian Virginia Wright UTS) maintains Steeluxe furniture was not ...
Ricketts & Thorp were Sydney manufacturers of fine furniture. The designs were often to the clients' specifications. They worked for the NSW State Government, the ...