Muralists (20th century) Sydney and elsewhere

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O'Connell, Michael, b. 1898
O'Connell was a Melbourne designer of hand-printed textiles. He later became associated with Cynthia Reed and Frederick Ward in interior design.
Updated May 2, 2020
Curtis, Robert Emerson, b. 1898
Mid 20th century illustrator and artist. In 1922 Curtis travelled to the USA with his great friend, the pioneer filmmaker, Charles Chauvel. There he developed ...
Updated Dec. 13, 2019
Albury, Winn, b. 1896
Twentieth century female watercolourist who worked as a commercial in Sydney and Sacremento, California. Work found amongst her estate included a number of designs for ...
Updated Dec. 13, 2019
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Sellheim, Gert Hugo Emmanuel, b. 1901
Sellheim was a graphic artist and industrial designer. He won the Sulman Prize in 1939 and was one of the first poster artists to work ...
Updated Nov. 26, 2019
Merfield, Bertha Elizabeth, b. 1869
Known for her mural paintings in Victoria, Bertha E. Merfield was a pioneer of landscape painting among female artists in Australia. Her mural for the ...
Updated Nov. 17, 2019
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Cassab, Judy, b. 1920
Painter born in Austria. Resident of Sydney she is a prolific and accomplished artist, able to paint portraits in a single sitting if necessary. Cassab ...
Updated Sept. 30, 2019
Fizelle, Rah
Updated Sept. 1, 2019
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Haxton, Elaine Alys, b. 1909
Painter, printmaker and designer, Haxton worked through the 1930s as a commercial artist in both Sydney and London. In 1943 she won the Sulman Prize ...
Updated Aug. 28, 2019
Pinder, Phil, b. 1945
Pinder was an artist working across a wide range of media including murals and interior design (the Last Laugh theatre, Melbourne). A poster "April Fools ...
Updated Aug. 16, 2019
Smith, Eric, b. 1919
Smith began his painting career with training in Melbourne and was active in Sydney art circles. He is a frequent entrant to the Art Gallery ...
Updated May 6, 2019
Melocco, Antonio Nicholas
Updated May 5, 2019
Melocco, Pietro, b. 1883
Pietro and one of his brothers (Antonio) were the principals of Melocco Brothers, Sydney. Pietro trained as a mason's apprentice and later at the Cooper ...
Updated May 5, 2019
Gapp, Vanoo, b. 1917
Illustrator and mural artist active in Sydney, Adelaide and North Queensland in the 1930s and 1940s
Updated March 9, 2019
Lewis & Skinner
Lewis & Skinner were a Melbourne-based sign writing firm active in the early decades of the 20th century until ca.1960.
Updated Dec. 22, 2018
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Morrison, Alistair, b. 1911
Morrison was a typographer, graphic designer, industrial designer and author. He had a celebrated design career in London from 1936-1939, returning to Australia before the ...
Updated Dec. 1, 2018
Snow, Bill, b. 1938
Snow was one of the founders of BUGA UP, a loosely affiliated group of activists opposed to tobacco smoking & advertising. The group began ca.1979 ...
Updated March 20, 2018
Milat, Nado
Milat executed a mural for the Hacienda Espresso Bar. Hunter Street, Sydney with interiors designed by Silvano Mariti in 1957. As an architect, he worked ...
Updated Nov. 18, 2017
Atyeo, Sam, b. 1910
In addition to a career in painting after training at the National Gallery School, Melbourne, Atyeo designed interiors, murals, designed and painted furniture for commercial ...
Updated Oct. 4, 2017
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Hawkins, Weaver, b. 1893
One of the great advocates for contemporary art in New South Wales. After he was left on the Western Front in World War I, he ...
Updated Aug. 10, 2017
Kelly, Orry George, b. 1897
Kelly was a fashion designer born into a tailor's family. He was active in theatre in Australia, moving to NYC where he worked as a ...
Updated July 21, 2017
Carter, Norman St Clair, b. 1875
Norman St Clair Carter was a portrait painter, stained-glass artist, muralist and teacher who trained in Melbourne before relocating permanently to Sydney in 1903.
Updated July 18, 2017
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Andrews, Gordon Arthur, b. 1914
Gordon Andrews was one of Australia's prominent mid-20th century multi-disciplinary designers. While best known for designing Australia's first decimal currency notes (1966), his international career ...
Updated July 8, 2017
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Lewers, Margo, b. 1908
Margo Lewers was primarily a painter and an admirer of the Bauhaus movement which she experienced during travels in Germany in 1934. She was initially ...
Updated June 16, 2017
Elliott, Margaret, b. 1934
Elliott is described as the designer of a "spectacular ceramic mural" for the "Club Bar" at the Chevron Hotel, Potts Point ca.1960 and her age ...
Updated June 11, 2017
Abbott, Barbara, b. 1928
Sydney-based female sketcher, printmaker and textile artist who passed her final assessment in art school by completing an Aboriginal reference workbook she started in her ...
Updated May 24, 2017