Muralists (20th century) Sydney and elsewhere

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Holman, Haldane Sinclair, b. 1922
Holman was a polymath artist working in film, murals, portraiture and other art forms. His career began after the conclusion of the 1939-45 War, he ...
Updated Feb. 8, 2017
Tichy, Vladimir, b. 1926
Tichy was a Czech-trained ceramicist with a considerable European career before immigrating to Australia. He formed a partnership with Anne Dybka working as Studio Dybka ...
Updated July 15, 2016
Dybka, Anne, b. 1922
Dybka was a London-trained artist with later studies in Melbourne at the National Gallery school and George Bell. She worked in ceramics and glass for ...
Updated July 15, 2016
Hesling, Bernard, b. 1905
Bernard Hesling was a mid-20th century UK-born painter who lived and worked in Sydney from 1928 until 1962, when he moved to Adelaide. He was ...
Updated March 23, 2016
Hopkinson, Roma, b. 1903
Painter, commercial artist and printmaker, a life long Sydney resident, the city was her main theme. Worked with her husband, sculptor Bim Hilder, exploring print ...
Updated March 17, 2016
Dalgarno, Roy Frederick Leslie, b. 1910
A diverse artist working primarily with drawing and as a printmaker, Roy Dalgarno had a long and varied career. His work mostly depicts the plight ...
Updated Dec. 18, 2015
Symonds, Stan (Stanley), b. 1933
Stan Symonds (1933–) is a Sydney architect who was active during the late 1950s and 1960s. His most celebrated project is the concrete-glass 'spaceship' residence ...
Updated Nov. 23, 2015
Sodersten, Emil, b. 1899
Emil Sodersten was one of Sydney's two leading architects of Art Deco buildings during the 1930s – noted especially for apartment buildings around Elizabeth Bay. ...
Updated Nov. 23, 2015
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Snelling, Douglas Burrage, b. 1916
Snelling created more than 70 residential and commercial buildings in Sydney and Noumea. He was born in England, moved to New Zealand (1924), practised design ...
Updated Nov. 23, 2015
Sainthill, Loudon, b. 1918
Sainthill was involved in a number of mural projects while in Melbourne. He became a leading mid 20th century painter and theatre designer who lived ...
Updated June 2, 2015
Aria, George Aubrey, b. 1904
Mid 20th century Sydney cartoonist, caricaturist, painter and advertising agent. Aria drew war cartoons for Smith's Weekly and created the comic strips 'The Aria Kids' ...
Updated Jan. 11, 2015
Delroy, Isobel
Sydney sculptor, 1940s to 1950s, worked with wood, copper and clay, carved decorative panels and murals. Her major public commission was perhaps the two ceramic ...
Updated Oct. 31, 2014
O'Harris, Pixie, b. 1903
Pixie O'Harris was a mid 20th century painter, children's book illustrator, muralist, cartoonist and writer. It was the birth of her third daughter that prompted ...
Updated Oct. 28, 2014
Anderson, Ethel, b. 1883
A well-travelled mural painter and writer, Ethel Anderson was considered one the most important supporters of modern art and its painters in the early part ...
Updated Oct. 28, 2014
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Lorenzini, Augusto, b. 1852
Artist decorator. Made numerous designs for wall panels, room decoration and paintings.
Updated July 29, 2014
Wheatley, Bill
Wheatley executed a mural in wire for the Green Parrot cocktail bar, Blight Street, Sydney for the firm Peddle, Thorpe and Walker in 1953.
Updated June 25, 2014
Hickey, Noel
Hickey is described as creating a "photo mural" for the optometrists Gibb and Beeman, Sydney in 1955. His work was commissioned by the architect Hans ...
Updated June 25, 2014
Bauer, Richard
Bauer is described as a Swiss emigre artist executing a mural for the Rex Hotel, Potts Point, Sydney in 1953.
Updated June 25, 2014
Pretzel, Marian
Pretzel was an artist executing a mural for the Latin Quarter restaurant, Pitt Street, Sydney for the architect Henry Kurzer in 1957.
Updated June 25, 2014
Pierce, Daphne
Pierce is an artist who provided a mural for the Mars Express outlet, Pitt Street, Sydney in 1957.
Updated June 25, 2014
Bissietta, G.F.
Bissieta was an artist providing a mural for the Repin's coffee shop, Pitt Street with interiors designed by George Watkins in 1955. The artist is ...
Updated June 25, 2014
Boothroyd, Arthur Sharland, b. 1910
Mid 20th century English, Melbourne and Sydney illustrator and cartoonist. Boothroyd contributed to a number of publications including the Bulletin, Smith's Weekly and London Punch ...
Updated June 25, 2014
Hart, Charles
Hart is a muralist whose work appears in an interior design commission from Rudder, Littlemore and Rudder in the Hotel Bennelong, Beverly Hills, Sydney in ...
Updated June 25, 2014
Haines, Leonard
A mural is known by Haines for the Motel Canberra, ACT with interiors designed by Hilda Abbott ca.1955.
Updated June 25, 2014
Deomede,
Deomede (identified as Mr Deomede) executed a mural for the White City Espresso Restaurant, operated by the Castelleti Brothers near the White City tennis courts.
Updated June 23, 2014