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1 F., B. Current B. F.'s 1848 pencil and watercolour drawing of three horses' heads is held in the Mitchell Library, pasted in Henrietta Octavia Lamb's Sydney album.
1 F., C. Current The inscription on the back of C. F.'s undated drawing, 'A Sailing Bark Flyer, the Union Jack', suggests he was a friend of Conrad Martens.
1 Fabian, Erwin Current Industrial designer, graphic artist, sculptor and one of the "Dunera Boys" interned in Hay, NSW, during World War II. In 1950 Fabian moved to London where he worked as a designer and lectured at the London School of Printing. He returned to Melbourne in 1962.
1 Fairbairn, David Current Contemporary works on paper artist David Fairbairn was born in Zambia, Africa, and came to Australia in the late 1970s. He won the 2002 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize and the 1999 Dobell Drawing Prize.
1 Fairfax, Rachel Current Rachel Fairfax, b. 1972 in Tuncurry NSW, is a figurative painter based in Sydney.
1 Fairfield, Charles Current Colonial-era Victorian journalist and illustrator. Father of British suffragette and author Dame Rebecca West
1 Fairholme, George Knight Erskine Current Described by his contemporaries as 'the most handsome man ever to come through Cunningham's Gap', the watercolourist and polymath George Fairholme had a fairytale life. Without wealth or property of his own, he worked for friends droving sheep before inheriting two properties. He subsequently travelled to Europe, met and married an Austrian baroness, and lived for the rest of his life between Sco
1 Fairland, Charles Henry Current Charles Henry Fairland was a painter, lithographer, illustrator and drawing master. He became town clerk of Hunters Hill municipality on its inception in 1861. His 'Sydney Drawing Book' was criticised for its failure to depict any feature of the colony or aspect of colonial life.
1 Fairlie, Peter Current Late 20th century satirical magazine cartoonist. He contributed to 'Matilda' and 'Simply Living.'
1 Fairman, B. George Current B. George Fairman, who opened a studio in Launceston in the late 1860s, appears to have been a society photographer, since his stock-in-trade was the carte-de-visite portrait photograph.
1 Fairweather, Paul Current Queensland based architect, designer, painter, installation artist and Director of Fairweather Proberts Architects.
1 Falconer, W. T. Current Federation era Bulletin cartoonist. Falconer's cartoon 'The Pharisee' was included in Kerr, Judd and Holder's 1999 exhibition at S.H. Ervin in Sydney.
1 Fallon, J. Current J. Fallon was a painter. His works were given a mixed critical reception when exhibited in Melbourne in 1864.
1 Fanning, Charles Current Charles Fanning taught drawing on the Isle of Jersey before a stay of approximately five years painting and drawing in Sydney. He then moved to Cape Town, South Africa, teaching drawing again for over a thirty years he spent there.
1 Fardoulys, James Current Naive painter James Fardoulys was born in Greece in 1900 and came to Australia in 1914. His work is held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, the Art Gallery of NSW and the Queensland Art Gallery.
1 Faris, George Current George Faris worked as a photographer in Sydney, where he had his own studio in the mid 1860s.
1 Farmer, Athol Current Katanning-based Noongar artist who was born and raised in Gnowangerup, WA. His work has been greatly influenced by the style of the Carrolup artists.
1 Farmer, Fay Current Noongar painter based in Perth who also created batik and ceramic work at the Marribank Artists Cooperative in the 1980s.
1 Farmer, Iesha Current Noongar artist whose work was included in 'Noongar Country' (2009) at Bunbury Regional Art Galleries, Western Australia.
1 Farmer, Lauriedarna Current Painter. Exhibited in the exhibition 'Moorditj Mob' at Kidogo Arthouse (WA) in 2009.

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