In 1939 Karl and Gertrude Langer came to Australia as refugees from Vienna. Her subsequent career as both a critic for the Courier-Mail, a collector, ...
Kathleen Leichney had an extensive career in Queensland in both the visual arts and in music. She painted and exhibited in Brisbane (largely portraits) and ...
Stronger than the stone she carved, this widely collected female artist's promotion of the arts rivalled her international sculpting career, by setting up several bequests ...
Phillip McConnell is one of the most significant of the second generation studio potters in Queensland and has claims to a national reputation. Like his ...
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. ...
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 ...
Mary Norrie has been a consistent exhibitior in art prizes throughout Queensland since the late 1950s and was awarded numerous prizes. She was also Queensland's ...
Kathleen O'Brien was an illustrator and fashion artist. She studied at Brisbane Technical College and also with J.S. Watkins for three years. O'Brien's comic strip ...
After her first Australian solo painting exhibitions, Olley worked and exhibited in France in the 1950s. An endearing personality, Olley had many travelling and working ...
Late 20th century Queensland cartoonist, botanical illustrator, painter, journalist and short-story writer. Opala became a nurse during WW2, wanting to do 'something useful' and many ...
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 ...
Painter, printmaker and art teacher with her own studios and art schools in Sydney. Perry also studied, worked and exhibited in London and Paris. Her ...
Clare Pitman (née McMahon) was a sculptor, ceramicist, painter, photographer, poet, pacifist, garden designer, horsewoman and sometime riding teacher. She studied painting and drawing at ...