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Wilshire, William Pitt, b. 1807
Native colonial whose claim to fame as first-born Australian artist belied the fact he took up landscape only because of the threat of photography to ...
Wilson, James, b. 1804
James Armstrong Wilson was a portrait and figure painter born in Scotland. A resident of Sydney and surrounding areas he drowned in a storm with ...
Wilson, Ambrose
sketcher and teacher, in Sydney. An inscription attributes the sketch '[Country] House of Sir Francis Forbes, Emu Plains, Nepean' (ML) to him. Two of his ...
Wilson, Bessie, b. 1836
A flower painter who died young.
Wilson, Charles
Charles Wilson was a professional photographer who brought the sennotype process to Australia. He came to Melbourne in 1862 and claimed to own the Australian ...
Wilson, David Henry, b. 1913
Mid 20th century painter and cartoonist, David Wilson's work is held in the collection of the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.
Wilson, Dorothy Elspeth, b. 1878
Dorothy Elspeth Wilson (Mrs Richard Wardill) was a very talented bookbinder. In 1906 she invited a group of six decorative artists and together they decided ...
Wilson, William H., b. 1795
Wilson was an illustrator and wood-engraver who came to Sydney in 1828 where he took up premises as one of the few commercial artist-engravers in ...
Wilson, William John, b. 1833
Scene painter and stage designer for various London and Sydney based theatre companies. Wilson also painted Australian coastal scenes, rural English landscapes and views in ...
Wilson, William Hardy, b. 1881
Wilson was a Sydney-based interwar architect, artist, author, cartographer, orientalist and futurist. Furniture and furnishings by Wilson are known. He documents many historic houses and ...
Wilson, Charles
Wilson is an industrial designer and founder member of design collective "Argo". He won the Bombay Sapphire Design Award in 2006 and has undertaken work ...
Winch, John, b. 1944
Painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and renowned children's books author and illustrator.
Winckler, Ruby, b. 1886
Ruby Winckler was a painter and illustrator who exhibited with the NSW Society of Artists. Winckler spent some time in America after accepting a commission ...
Wing, Jason, b. 1978
Jason Wing is a young Sydney-based Aboriginal artist who also strongly identifies with his Asian heritage; in fact his art taps into this duality to ...
Wingate, Thomas, b. 1807
Retired army officer who came to Sydney in 1852. Wingate worked in the media of photography, painting and drawing. He exhibited a photographic panorama of ...
Wittenoom, Charles Dirck, b.
Sketcher and newspaperman from England, brother of John Burdett Wittenoom, the first clergyman appointed to Western Australia. He produced sketches of WA, representing the countryside ...
Wolanski, Sabina, b. 1930
Designer and Director of Lido Tie Manufacturing Company
Wolfhagen, Philip, b. 1963
Winner of the 2007 Wynne Prize, Philip Wolfhagen is a contemporary landscape painter whose critically acclaimed works explore his relationship to, and engagement with, the ...