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Aarons, Anita, b. 1912
Anita Aarons had a diverse career working as a jeweller, sculptor, art administrator, radio commentator, teacher and art editor for an architecture publication, while living ...
Abbott, Ernest Edwin, b. 1889
Ernest Edwin Abbott (1889-1973), English-born printmaker, painter and art teacher, based mainly in Melbourne, Victoria.
Abbott Roberts, Mary Margaret, b. 1916
Mary Abbott Roberts, who also exhibited under her maiden name of Mary Abbott, was born in Quirindi in rural New South Wales and studied in ...
Allen, Joyce L. McC, b. 1916
Brisbane born painter and printmaker and a student of Thea Proctor and Joy Ewart. Allen was a regular exhibitor with the Print Council of Australia ...
Annand, Douglas, b. 1903
One of Australia's best known graphic and poster artists, Douglas Annand also had a distinguished career as a camouflage artist during the Second World War. ...
Armfield, David, b. 1923
Late 20th century Melbourne painter, illustrator and printmaker. This biography concentrates on his black and white work.
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Baker, Nyukana, b. 1943
Pitjantjatjara artist from Ernabella who began painting, designing and weaving in 1963 and producing batik in 1971. Her work is widely exhibited in Australia and ...
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Baldessin, George Joseph Victor, b. 1939
Widely travelled, Baldessin honed his art through formal training and collaborative projects. He was a highly respected printmaker who studied at the Chelsea School of ...
Ball, Sydney, b. 1933
The Adelaide born Sydney Ball was a painter of pure colour and abstract form, and one of the first of the post-World War II artists ...
Beadle, Paul, b. 1917
Influential mid 20th century sculptor, illustrator and art teacher who taught extensively in Australia in the 1940s and 1950s before settling in Auckland, New Zealand. ...
Beatty, Margaret Checkley, b. 1916
Margaret Checkley Beatty was a printmaker, painter and commercial artist who attended Julian Ashton's Sydney Art School with Adelaide Perry from 1933. Her linocut of ...
Bellamy, Suzanne
An activist for feminist issues, Suzanne Bellamy has been at the forefront of pushing conventional boundaries outwards and exploring both painful personal themes and broader ...
Berndt, Eileen Constance Matilda, b. 1899
Painter and printmaker, Berndt studied variously under Grace Crowley, Anne Dangar, Dorrit Black and Adelaide Perry before relocating to London to study at the Central ...
Birmingham, Karna Marie, b. 1900
Karna Marie Birmingham was an illustrator of children's books and arguably may have been more widely acknowledged if she had not contracted an eye disease ...
Blackburn, Vera, b. 1911
Printmaker Vera Blackburn was the daughter of artistically minded parents who encouraged her practice through lessons with Thea Proctor. World War Two, marriage and family ...
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Blackman, Charles, b. 1928
The Antipodean artist Charles Blackman was best known for his paintings of schoolgirls and the whimsy of Alice in Wonderland. He was a part of ...
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Boyd, Arthur, b. 1920
A member of the gifted Boyd family, and grandson of his namesake, the painter Arthur Merric Boyd, Arthur first attended night classes at Melbourne's National ...
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Brack, John, b. 1920
A painter and printmaker, John Brack is considered one of Australia's most significant artists, whose subject matter was resolutely urban, modern life. Brack's extensive body ...
Brash, Barbara Nancy, b. 1925
Twentieth-century Melbourne artist who has worked mostly in printmaking. The National Gallery of Australia holds over 70 of Brash's works including the c.1948 print 'Beach ...
Brown, Mike, b. 1938
Significant late 20th century contemporary artist. One of the founders of the Annandale Imitation Realists of the early 1960s.