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Creeth, May, b. 1854
May Creeth was born in 1854. She was a painter, china painter, teacher, photographer and pyrographer. Creeth trained in art at the South Kensington Schools ...
Kingsbury, Elizabeth Jane, b. 1858
Mrs JJ (Elizabeth) Kingsbury produced a remarkable art item in her poker-worked sideboard (which was identified quite fortutiously). She is representative of the many remarkable ...
Benham, Loui, b. 1868
Loui Benham was born in 1868. She was embroiderer, designer, teacher, woodcarver, pyrographer and painter. Benham exhibited with the West Australian Society of Arts. She ...
Astley, Charles, b. 1869
Charles Astley's paintings were no more than competent but his teaching of pottery and china painting at the Warwick Technical College and High School and ...
Prinsep, Emily Frances, b. 1874
She won the competition for "the design of a frieze with a distinctly Australian motif" in 1909.
Rowbotham, Walter, b. 1878
Painter and teacher, won the Royal College of Art Scholarship and the Royal College of Art Travelling Scholarship. Rowbotham exhibited with West Australian Society of ...
Bott, Alice, b. 1879
Alice Bott was a prominent member of the Arts and Crafts Movement in Queensland, a student of L.J. Harvey and a pottery instructor.
Whitesides, Vera Lindsay, b. 1886
Described as a women of charm, Vera was a versatile artist proficient in a wide range of art and craft media. Best known in her ...
Fanning, Charlotte, b. 1896
Painter in oils, china painter, wood caver and marquetry exponent. She exhibited the West Australian Society of Arts in 1911.
Abadjura, , b. 1904
Bark paintings and carvings by Abadjura were collected by the Art Gallery of Western Australia in the 1960s.
Coventry, Frederick Halford, b. 1905
A painter, muralist, stained glass artist, glass painter & etcher, printmaker, poster-designer, art teacher, book-illustrator and designer, Frederick Halford Coventry's art practice encompassed both the ...
Havekes, Gerardus Wilhelmus Hendricus, b. 1925
Havekes appears to be a self-taught artist. He was active in ceramics, painting, sculpture, sculpture and tapestry. He later studied ceramics at East Sydney Technical ...
Tjampitjinpa, Kaapa, b. 1925
Anmatyerre/Arrente artist who was the principal painter of the Papunya school mural and a key player in the establishment of Papunya Tula Artists, being the ...
Stockman, Billy, b. 1927
One of the founders of the Papunya Tula painting movement, company Chairman, Aboriginal Arts Board member and Central Australian delegate to the N.A.C.in the 1970s. ...
Brown, Anmanari, b. 1930
Pitjantjatjara artist and craftsperson based in Irrunytju, WA, whose mother country is Kuru Ala, and whose paintings depict various aspects of the Minyma Tjuta Tjukurpa ...
Leura, Tim Tjapaltjarri, b. 1930
Anmatyerre artist who was renowned for his wood carving skill before beginning to paint in Papunya at the beginning of the 1970s. As a close ...
Phillipus, Long Jack Tjakamarra, b. 1932
Long Jack Phillipus was a founding member of Papunya Tula Artists and its longest serving artist. He took out the NT Golden Jubilee Art Award ...
Tjapaltjarri, Clifford Possum, b. 1932
Leading Papunya Tula artist. One of last men to join Geoffrey Bardon's group of 'painting men' at the beginning of the 1970s and the first ...
Nangala, Tilau, b. 1933
Tilau Nangala is a senior law woman and respected elder in the Papunya community, where she paints for Papunya Tjupi Art Centre and has taught ...
Rupert, Nura, b. 1933
Nura Rupert is a long-time member of Ernabella Arts Inc. She travelled to the Edinburgh Festival in 2001 to present 'Milpatjunanyi - Telling Stories in ...