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McNamara, Leila Constance, b. 1894
Leila Constance McNamara (1894-1973), painter and teacher, active mainly in Adelaide, South Australia.
Monz, Elizabeth, b. 1908
Although Elizabeth Monz exhibited leather and pokerwork extensively throughout Brisbane and regional Queensland her pottery will preserve her memory. She was one of L.J. Harvey's ...
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Mora, Mirka Madeleine, b. 1928
Mirka Mora’s joyeous experimental art gave a bohemian flavour to Melbourne life, both with her former husband, the resistance fighter and restaurateur Georges, and then ...
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Murch, Arthur James, b. 1902
Painter and sculptor, assistant to George Lambert, and in World War II the War artist who captured images of the bombed city of Darwin. Later ...
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Nolan, Sidney, b. 1917
Sir Sidney Nolan, the son of a Melbourne tram driver, became one of Australia's most celebrated and honoured artists. His Ned Kelly series made him ...
Norling, Robin, b. 1939
Norling began his career in sign-writing, later training in painting at the National Art School, Sydney, and the Royal College of Art, London, UK. He ...
Partos, Paul, b. 1943
Paul Partos's canvases reveal intense passages of his inner life, expressed in markings ranging from quietude and restraint to exuberant expressions of form and colour, ...
Passmore, John, b. 1904
When John Passmore returned to Sydney from an extended stay in Europe in 1951 he galvanised a generation of young painters. They were led to ...
Pedersen, Ella Lilian, b. 1898
Ella Lilian Pedersen was a painter, illuminator, illustrator, weaver, potter, leather-worker, embroiderer, jeweller and enameller. In 1941, with Mona Elliott, she founded the Half Dozen ...
Pinson, Peter Leslie, b. 1943
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Rees, Lloyd, b. 1895
Lloyd Rees began his career as an architectural draughtsman, and established his reputation as an artist with detailed pen and pencil drawings of around Sydney. ...
Rowbothan, Marjory, b. 1923
Daughter of art teacher Walter Rowbotham she won numerous prizes including Albany Art Competition Painting Prize 1973, Drawing Prize 1973, Shire Prize 1975, Shire Prize ...
Russell, Arthur Clarence, b. 1927
Russell studied at East Sydney Technical School under Godfrey Miller, John Passmore and Ralph Balson. He won the Rupert Boan Landscape Prize in 1961 and ...
Santry, John, b. 1910
Mid 20th century Sydney painter, illustrator and cartoonist Santry taught drawing to Architecture students at Sydney University, which may have come from his association with ...
Shaw, Muriel, b. 1911
Painter and printmaker known by her nickname 'Mim'. A member of the Half Dozen Group of Artists in Brisbane, Shaw travelled extensively overseas and taught ...
Slessor, Kenneth, b. 1901
Influential 20th century poet, journalist and sketcher.
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Smart, Jeffrey, b. 1921
With a career lasting over sixty years the Adelaide born artist Jeffrey Smart was an expatriate realist painter best known for his depiction of isolated ...
Smith, Steve, b. 1950
Painter, illustrator and comic strip artist. He has exhibited drawings and paintings in Sydney since 1983 and is represented by Mori Gallery.
Spencer, Bill, b. 1919
In one life Bill Spencer was the Art Gallery of New South Wales attendant who led the fight against asbestos in the gallery building in ...
Stoner, Dorothy, b. 1904
Dorothy Stoner supported her career as an artist by teaching art in Tasmania, but she constantly looked to Melbourne, Sydney and Europe for new ways ...