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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 ...
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Benporath, Norma, b. 1900
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Bout, Geurt
Currie, Ian, b. 1941
Ian Currie was a Queensland potter who specialised in Japanese inspired glazes on his stoneware and porcelain pots. He died after suffering from various forms ...
Gerstl, Heinz , b. 1937
Fourth generation Viennese cabinetmaker. Worked with his father at the family furniture factory from a young age, joining full time aged 17. Active role in ...
Mansfield, Janet, b. 1934
As a speaker, writer, publisher, juror and convenor, Janet Mansfield put Australian ceramics on the international stage. Her magazine "Ceramics: Art and Perception" set a ...
McConnell, Carl, b. 1926
Chicago born Carl McConnell became the most significant potter in post World War II Brisbane as he introduced porcelain and stone firing techniques to Brisbane. ...
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McCredie, Bob, b. 1910
McMeekin, Ivan, b. 1919
Ivan McMeekin was the founder of the Sturt Pottery at Mittagong and one of the founders of the Potters Society of Australia. From 1959-78, he ...
Pryor, Aase, b. 1914
Aase Pryor was one of most significant of Milton Moon's pottery students in Brisbane and combined this skill with jewellery design and theatre work when ...
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Puruntatameri, Eddie, b. 1948
Eddie Puruntatameri was Australia's first Indigenous studio potter. After studying at Bagot pottery he returned home to Bathurst Island where he established Tiwi in 1972. ...
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Tipiloura, John Bosco, b. 1952
John Bosco Tipiloura trained as a potter at Bagot Ceramics Unit in Darwin. With Eddie Puruntatameri, he was the founder of the Tiwi Pottery on ...
Tomczak, Wieslaw Andrew, b. 1928
Tomczak, a resident of Redfern, Sydney came to Australia in 1953. He worked in trades at Garden Island dockyard. An inventive polymath, he designed and ...
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Tully, Peter, b. 1947
Artist and gay activist, was included in the Tin Sheds exhibition, "Dead Gay Artists", in 2002.
Hearn Bros. and Stead
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 ...
Clingan Bros. Pty. Ltd.
Clingan Bros. Pty. Ltd. were Bankstown-based furniture manufacturers best known for cast aluminium indoor and outdoor furniture under the Clingcast brand. The company was listed ...
Bailey & Sons
Bailey & Sons were furniture makers in Edwardstown, South Australia known to have produced domestic timber furniture.
Buzacotts & Company Ltd
Buzacotts (Qld) Ltd designed & manufactured chrome steel tube furniture under the brand "Steeluxe". (NB: Design historian Virginia Wright UTS) maintains Steeluxe furniture was not ...
W.D. Wallace & Co Pty Ltd
SupaFurn
SupaFurn were furniture manufacturers exhibiting with a WA Furniture Exhibition, Sydney. Photographs illustrate domestic and outdoor tubular metal and wood furniture.