Muralists (20th century) Sydney and elsewhere

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Woodward-Smith, Sydney, b. 1904
Woodward-Smith was a NSW painter exhibiting in the late 1920s, with his first solo exhibition held at the Grosvenor Gallery, Sydney in 1934. A mural ...
Updated June 23, 2025
Annand, Douglas, b. 1903
One of Australia's best known graphic and poster artists, Douglas Annand also had a distinguished career as a camouflage artist during the Second World War. ...
Updated May 21, 2025
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Thake, Eric, b. 1904
Mid 20th century Melbourne surrealist, graphic and commercial artist and illustrator, designer and painter. A mural by Thake for the ETA peanut butter factory, Braybrook ...
Updated May 13, 2025
Swinfield, Robert
Swinfield executed a mural for the new Commonwealth Bank building staff cafeteria in Market Street, Sydney ca.1940. This mural was executed in multi-coloured linoleum. (undated ...
Updated May 5, 2025
Bourke, Piers
A mural by Bourke was painted in the Kashmir Coffee Shop, Kings Cross, ca.1944.
Updated May 5, 2025
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 ...
Updated March 30, 2025
Buzacott, Nutter, b. 1905
Buzacott was a printmaker, commercial artist (graphic designer), political illustrator, painter and teacher. A mural by Buzacott is also known. He travelled widely in Australia ...
Updated March 23, 2025
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Freedman, George Henry, b. 1936
Freedman trained as an architect. His interior design career began with Kahn & Jacobs Architects, a New York City firm. He later shifted to London, ...
Updated March 13, 2025
Waller, Christian, b. 1894
20th century painter, illustrator and stained-glass designer and maker. Early fantasy and mystic themes followed by Art Deco style.
Updated Dec. 16, 2024
Davis, George, b. 1930
Davis was a painter with abilities in landscape, nature painting, portraiture and murals. He was celebrated as a drawing master with particular interests in the ...
Updated Nov. 8, 2024
Bergner, Yosl, b. 1920
Melbourne painter and contemporary of Boyd and Perceval and active member of Contemporary Art Society with Noel Counihan and Vic O'Connor. Bergner's paintings were among ...
Updated Oct. 5, 2024
Leist, Frederick William, b. 1873
Lleist was an early 20th century Sydney and London painter, cartoonist, war artist and teacher. He was an inaugural council member of the Sydney Society ...
Updated Aug. 18, 2024
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de Maistre, Roy, b. 1894
Roy De Maistre, along with Roland Wakelen and Grace Cossington Smith was one of the pioneers of Post Impressionism in Australia. Later, in England, he ...
Updated Sept. 2, 2023
Wilson, Eric
Wilson was a painter who studied at the Julian Ashton School, Sydney, later travelling to Europe where he was influenced by the Cubist movement through ...
Updated Sept. 2, 2023
Thompson, Tom
Painter and sketcher, is best known as a mural artist, e.g. Australia House, London; Parramatta City Council; Kingsford Smith International Airport.
Updated Aug. 31, 2023
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Wakelin, Roland, b. 1887
Modernist painter, Roland Wakelin, was born in New Zealand in 1887. He moved to Sydney, Australia in 1912 where he studied under Antonio Dattilo Rubbo ...
Updated May 17, 2023
Mansell, William Arthur Byram, b. 1893
Mansell was a painter, illustrator and theatre designer whose work diverse artistic practices, which ranged from painting to set design, were very much influenced by ...
Updated May 12, 2023
Day, Martin James, b. 1967
Day is a wildlife and portrait artist. He has broad experience in illustration, drawing and sign writing.
Updated May 12, 2023
Lyon, Cottier & Co.
Lyon, Cottier & Co. began in Sydney in 1873 with premises in Pitt Street. The company specialized in painted schemes & glass, but dealt in ...
Updated May 5, 2023
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Powditch, Peter, b. 1942
Peter Powditch first began to paint and sculpt his celebrations of the beach and bikini culture in the late 1960s. He was also active as ...
Updated March 30, 2022
Nankervis, Peter
Nankervis was an artist and photographer providing murals for the Technical Centre, General Motors (opened 1964), Holden as well as an automotive designer working for ...
Updated Jan. 10, 2022
Plowright, Terrence, b. 1949
Terrance Plowright, born in Sydney in 1949, is a sculptor and designer. He has been commissioned by various public, corporate and ecclesiastical sources to create ...
Updated Sept. 20, 2021
Fish, Donald, b. 1929
Fish produced poster designs, logotypes, packaging, TV commercials and illustrations for major clients around the world, including Cadbury's, British Airways, Qantas and TIME Magazine. Founder ...
Updated Sept. 17, 2021
Olley, Margaret, b. 1923
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 ...
Updated Dec. 19, 2020
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Dyring, Moya, b. 1909
A painter, working primarily in Brisbane and Paris. A reference has been made to her work as a muralist with Sam Atyeo in Melbourne.
Updated Dec. 11, 2020