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Molnar, George, b. 1910

Molnar was an architect, cartoonist, watercolourist, illustrator and architecture lecturer at Sydney University and the University of NSW. His lecturers were highly praised by students. ...

Molvig, Jon, b. 1923

Apart from being one of Australia's major figurative expressionist painters, Jon Molvig became a significant inspiration for the art scene in Brisbane when he settled ...

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 ...

Moon, Milton, b. 1926

Milton Moon has been a key figure in developing close links between Japanese studio pottery and Australia. In 2012 he wrote: 'I remain concerned, if ...

Moore, John D.

Mid 20th century painter and architect

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 ...

Morcom, Verdon Langford, b. 1926

Mid 20th century Melbourne and London painter, graphic and advertising artist.

Morgan, James Squire Woodward, b. 1886

Prominent interwar period etcher who studied under Julian Ashton and Sydney Long.

Morris, Rosemary

Watercolourist who exhibited in the Art Competition at the Art Gallery of Western Australia in 1950.

Morris, Rufus, b. 1907

Mid 20th century Sydney cartoonist, commercial artist, illustrator and watercolourist. Prolific contributor to Minties' "It's moments like these..." campaign

Morrison, Joan, b. 1911

Morrison was an accomplished mid-20th century cartoonist and book illustrator. Her cartoons, published in Man and Smith's Weekly, were populated by sassy glamour girls that ...

Morrow, Dorothea Turner

Active member of the Western Australian Women's Society of Fine Arts and Crafts in the 1950s-1970s. Morrow wrote 'A Place by the River'.

Mort, Eirene, b. 1879

Designer and craftworker, Sydney, NSW, she was a prolific designer of textiles and various Applied Arts, often featuring Australian floral motifs, and was well known ...

Moult-Spiers, Raymond Leon , b. 1920

Moult-Spiers began his career with an exhibition of pictures with the “Contemporary Art Society” in 1946. He was a student of art at East Sydney ...

Mountford, Charles

Mountjoy Furniture,

Furniture manufacturing business set up by Eric Stokes in 1954. Stokes and his wife, Constance had seen outdoor furniture made plastic piping stretched over a ...