Australian Furniture Designers 1930-2000

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Tapper, Ronald Edward, b.
Tapper studied at the London College of Furniture finishing in 1963, later working as staff designer Vanson Furniture UK, arr. Australia ca.1967, then designing for ...
Updated June 13, 2012
Herrman, Doris, b. 1915
Herrman is described as a designer working with architects in an unidentified capacity, moving to the UK 1964, returned Australia, working with architectural firms, exhibited ...
Updated June 1, 2012
Henry, William
William Henry is a Sydney-based interior designer, identified through a "Wrightbilt" fashion furniture endorsement in Australian House and Garden, April 1961.
Updated May 16, 2012
Sweetapple, Isabel
Sweetapple studied at Christchurch College NZ, then Melbourne College of Advanced Education, she works as a furniture designer.
Updated May 14, 2012
Sorby, Jane W.
Sorby is an industrial designer. She studied at the Queensland Technical College Art School, Queensland Institute of Technology, then working as an industrial designer and ...
Updated May 14, 2012
Bell, George, b. 1878
Painter, teacher and art critic, George Bell spent a number of years in Europe studying, painting and working as an official war artist from 1918 ...
Updated May 7, 2012
Becker, Ludwig, b. 1808
An undervalued member of the fateful Burke and Wills expedition, Ludwig Becker was an accomplished artist and naturalist whose contribution to the expedition has belatedly ...
Updated April 17, 2012
Hermann, Hans
Hermann was a furniture designer and principal of Hermann Furniture, 46 Adderley St, Lidcombe (factory) with a showroom at 151-153 Macquarie St, Sydney. (source: undated ...
Updated April 2, 2012
Gibbs, Cyril, b. 1906
Cyril Gibbs was an accomplished watercolourist who produced a substantial output over his lifetime but his contribution to arts administration in Brisbane was probably as ...
Updated Oct. 19, 2011
Robertson, Thomas, b. 1819
The Hobart Town Courier called Thomas Robertson, "one of the best marine painters in the Australian colonies".
Updated Oct. 19, 2011
Glover, Henry, b. 1828
Colonial era cartoonist, sketcher and lithographer.
Updated Oct. 19, 2011
Freeman, George John, b. 1843
George John Freeman was a professional photographer and photographic showman. He arrived at South Australia in 1861. Throughout his professional career Freeman enthusiastically experimented with ...
Updated Oct. 19, 2011
White, James Charles, b. 1809
Sketcher and property manager who came to Australia from India in the early 1830s. He erected the famous Jondaryan woolshed, then the largest on the ...
Updated Oct. 19, 2011
Macarthur, James, b. 1813
Male colonial artist of the famous Macarthur family whose only known pictures are of Victorian landscapes, despite living in Tasmania and New South Wales.
Updated Oct. 19, 2011
Lang, Ludwig, b. 1834
A German-born nineteenth-century lithographer based in Melbourne. His lithographs were mostly reproductions.
Updated Oct. 19, 2011
Ingelow, George Kilgour, b. 1821
George Kilgour Ingelow was a sketcher and bank clerk. He was born in 1821 in Boston, Lincolnshire. He lived in India, Singapore and Sydney. In ...
Updated Oct. 19, 2011
Fowell, Newton Digby, b. 1768
Fowell joined the Royal Navy at 12 and arrived in Australia on the First Fleet. He made sketches of birds and Aboriginal weapons, none of ...
Updated Oct. 19, 2011
Bull, Knud Geelmuyden, b. 1811
Painter, photographer and drawing master in Hobart and Sydney in the mid to late nineteeth century. Bull arrived in Australia as a convict, having been ...
Updated Oct. 19, 2011
Black, Margaret
Margaret Black sketched several notable views of Launceston that were exhibited in Melbourne in 1860 to glowing reviews. In 1861 one of the picture was ...
Updated Oct. 19, 2011
Solling, Wendy Hope, b. 1926
Sculptor, nun and Anglican priest. Sister Angela's sculptural practice was informed by her religion, her sense of the sacredness of the land and her contemplations ...
Updated Oct. 19, 2011
Hutchison, Edward Barnabas Welsey
Edward Hutchinson's struggles to provide for his family as a new settler put paid to his ambition of a photographic practice.
Updated Oct. 19, 2011
Soares, Alberto Dias, b. 1830
Arriving with his brother Gualter in 1852 with a wildcat idea for a railway system which was subsequently turned down by the Sydney Rail Company, ...
Updated Oct. 19, 2011
Fern, Matthew, b. 1831
Matthew Fern was a woodcarver of exceptional skills who flourished in Queensland during the second half of the nineteenth century. It is difficult to extract ...
Updated Oct. 19, 2011
Duterrau, Benjamin, b. 1767
Duterrau arrived in Australia when he was 65. Already an established artist, he produced many Australian 'firsts' including 'The Conciliation' - the first history painting ...
Updated Oct. 19, 2011
Gell, Philip Hoskins, b. 1822
Sketcher, surveyor and farmer, his artworks are primarily pencil sketched scenes of the Tasmanian landscape, many of which are held in the State Library of ...
Updated Oct. 19, 2011