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Macdonald, Mary, b. 1868
Mary MacDonald possibly had the most extensive production for a Harvey School potter as she attended Harvey's classes for some 25 years. As well as ...
Elliott, Mona, b. 1872
Although Mona Elliott developed her interest in pottery and painting late in life, she made a significant contribution to art in both Brisbane and Toowoomba, ...
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Preston, Margaret, b. 1875
Margaret Preston specialised in still life subjects, seeking to reinvent the genre, with inspiration from Aboriginal art and Australian native flowers, but she also made ...
Hirst, H. G., b. 1878
Miss H. G. Hirst was a potter and craftworker. She was a member of the Society of Arts and Crafts of NSW for 46 years ...
Richardson, Maude Rose, b. 1879
Maude Rose Richardson was born in 1879. With her friends Alma Pericles and Mrs W. E. Stephenson, she formed the West Australian Women Painters and ...
Seccombe, Grace, b. 1880
Potter, was born in England and employed in a pottery in Burslem, Staffordshire, before coming to Australia. Seccombe designed plates, dishes and bowls decorated with ...
Lutz, Agnes Gray, b. 1881
Agnes Gray Lutz was a potter, china painter, and painter based in Western Australia.
Dangar, Annie Garvin, b. 1885
A talented and well recognised modernist ceramic artist, Anne Dangar spent most of her artistic life at the Moly-Sabata artists' colony, near Ardêche in southern ...
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Bryce Carter, Emily, b. 1886
Murphy, Augusta 'Dot', b. 1886
Chinapainting was a popular craft in southern Australia from the 1920s and paralleled developments in the Arts and Crafts Movement. Dot Murphy is one of ...
O'Reilly, Maud, b. 1886
Maud O'Reilly was one of L.J. Harvey's students who furthered her skills by studying wheelthrowing and glazing when she visited London in 1925. She made ...
Pedersen, Ella Lilian, b. 1898
Ella Lilian Pedersen was a painter, illuminator, illustrator, weaver, potter, leather-worker, embroiderer, jeweller and enameller. In 1941, with Mona Elliott, she founded the Half Dozen ...
Manners, Erna, b. 1899
Teacher and potter who was trained at the Royal Academy in London. Manners contributed to the community by editing a magazine 'Western Australian Art' that ...
Medworth, Muriel, b. 1903
Watercolour painter, interior decorator, textile and fashion designer, ceramicist and teacher, pursued her career in London and Australia.
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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 ...
Martin, Ida, b. 1906
Ida Martin was probably L.J. Harvey's most accomplished pottery student in the last decade of his life. She also had an extensive career as an ...
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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 ...
Monz, Elizabeth, b. 1908
Although Elizabeth Monz exhibited leather and pokerwork extensively throughout Brisbane and regional Queensland her pottery will preserve her memory. She was one of L.J. Harvey's ...
Shaw, Muriel, b. 1911
Painter and printmaker known by her nickname 'Mim'. A member of the Half Dozen Group of Artists in Brisbane, Shaw travelled extensively overseas and taught ...
Lang, Jean Euphemia, b. 1912
Jean Euphemia Lang was born in 1912. She was an illustrator, painter, china painter, potter, teacher and historian. In 1991 she was awarded Citizen of ...