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Benporath, Norma, b. 1900
Shaw, Marina Philomena, b. 1903
Painter, china painter, ceramic sculptor and designer who in the1940s won a scholarship to the Slade School of Art but was unable to take it ...
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Best, Marion Hall, b. 1905
Interior designer and decorator whose work and achievements exemplify the best of the many dynamic and significant advances that occurred within Australian modernism in the ...
Crockford, Myrtle, b. 1905
Guthrie, Bessie, b. 1905
Bessie Jean (née Mitchell) Guthrie was a designer, publisher and feminist. She was the first woman to hold a solo design exhibition at the East ...
McCrae, Marjory Francesca, b. 1905
Mid 20th century painter, cartoonist and commercial artist. Her parents' great friend Norman Lindsay taught her to draw and throughout the course of her career ...
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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 ...
Kingston, Amie, b. 1908
Mid 20th century painter, printmaker, theatrical designer and art teacher. Textile prints commissioned by Marion Hall Best ca.1942 are known. Amy Kingston worked prolifically in ...
Collings, Dahl, b. 1909
Dahl Collings was a painter, commercial artist, graphic and exhibition designer, illustrator, costume and textile designer, photographer and documentary film-maker. Often working in partnership with ...
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Holt, Zara, b. 1909
Holt was a fashion designer who began with a dress shop in Melbourne in partnership with Betty James in 1930. Her biographer, P. A. Pemberton, ...
Tyler, Elsa, b. 1910
Art and craft teacher at Methodist Ladies' College, Kew. Calligrapher for monograph on sculptor Eileen McGrath by G. Rayner Hoff.
Broome-Norton, Jean, b. 1911
A twentieth-century Sydney sculptor and later jeweller. Broome-Norton was a student and later an assistant of Raynor Hoff's. A graduate of the East Sydney Technical ...
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 ...
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Mackenzie, Alexandra Agnes Nance, b. 1912
Female fabric designer and printmaker who worked with Annie Outlaw in Sydney to establish colourful designs with Australian motifs for international markets during the 1940s ...
Fullarton, Nancy Edith, b. 1913
Mid 20th century Sydney and London painter, children's book illustrator, comic strip artist and ballet costume designer. Creator of Frisky the Rabbit.
Danciger, Alice, b. 1914
A painter, theatre and fabric designer who worked with some of the most significant modernist artists in Australia.
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 ...
Abbott Roberts, Mary Margaret, b. 1916
Mary Abbott Roberts, who also exhibited under her maiden name of Mary Abbott, was born in Quirindi in rural New South Wales and studied in ...
Degeus, Maryke, b. 1917
Maryke Degeus was one of the many European migrants whose entry into Australia after World War Two transformed our culture. She was associated with Jon ...