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Leviny, Hilda, b. 1883
Artist,woodcarver, embroiderer and college house matron. The youngest of the Leviny sisters.
Field, Florence Roma, b. 1891
An accomplished self-taught embroiderer, Field experimented with different stitches and materials and also mastered traditional European embroidery skills. A lifelong member of the Embroiderers Guild ...
Crockford, Myrtle, b. 1905
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Pyke, Guelda Esther Leah, b. 1905
Australian ceramist, jewellery and fashion designer who, after visits to Bali and training with George Bell, took up painting in the 1950s and worked in ...
Afford, Thelma, b. 1908
Costume designer, performer, actor and fashion journalist with a practice from Broken Hill, Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne. She also designed costumes for early Australian TV ...
Aarons, Anita, b. 1912
Anita Aarons had a diverse career working as a jeweller, sculptor, art administrator, radio commentator, teacher and art editor for an architecture publication, while living ...
Thorpe, Alice, b. 1914
Weaver, was born in the Lake Boga district of Victoria in 1914.
Ashworth, Olive, b. 1915
Commercial artist, textile designer and photographer. Ashworth is best known for her textile designs that were based on sketches and photographs of the Great Barrier ...
Claringbold, John, b. 1928
Fashion designer and couturier based in Melbourne and Darlington Point, New South Wales. Life partner and collaborator of Ross Weymouth.
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Mora, Mirka Madeleine, b. 1928
Mirka Mora’s joyeous experimental art gave a bohemian flavour to Melbourne life, both with her former husband, the resistance fighter and restaurateur Georges, and then ...
Weymouth , Ross, b. 1939
Fashion designer and couturier based in South Yarra, Melbourne and Darlington Point, New South Wales. Life partner and collaborator of John Claringbold.
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Acton, Prue, b. 1943
Prue Acton is a women’s wear designer. She trained at RMIT beginning in 1958. She established a Melbourne showroom in 1963 later moving to the ...
Corbett, John, b. 1946
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Tully, Peter, b. 1947
Artist and gay activist, was included in the Tin Sheds exhibition, "Dead Gay Artists", in 2002.
Cruickshank, Rina, b. 1949
Rina Cruickshank practiced as a fabric artist using crochet, shells and lima beans in her work. She exhibited at the Art Gallery of New South ...
Williamson, Liz, b. 1949
Textile artist Liz Williamson began weaving in the late 1970s. Sometimes wearable, sometimes for display, her artworks have been exhibited and collected in Japan, Canada, ...
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Lindsay, Sara, b. 1951
Macey, Barbara
Walker, Sue
Sue Walker first came to public attention with her crocheted objects. Later she became the founding director of the Victorian Tapestry Workshop, and in this ...