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Englund, Ivan, b. 1915
Ivan Englund was one of the founders of the Potters' Society of New South Wales in 1956. He taught at the Wollongong and East Sydney ...
Gittoes, Joyce, b. 1915
The mature work of Joyce Gittoes is best described as small ceramic sculptures of Australian native life. Her favourite subjects were owls, and these are ...
Tuckson, Margaret, b. 1921
Tuckson was a potter working first in low-fired earthenware. She expanded her interest to Papua New Guinea ceramic traditions publishing "The Traditional Pottery of Papau ...
Warren, Joy, b. 1921
Ceramicist who founded the 'Craft Australia' journal in 1969, and was its editor and producer until 1975.
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 ...
Travis, Peter, b. 1927
Travis is a noted colour consultant, kite-maker, ceramic artist and designer. Travis was hired by Alistair McCrea to revolutionise Speedo's range of men's leisurewear, now ...
Chapman, Vic, b. 1932
Ceramicist born 14th March 1932 on Currawillinghi Station Qld. Chapman's earthenware slip cast pieces are painted with the Dreaming stories of the Yuwaalaraay people of ...
Mansfield, Janet, b. 1934
As a speaker, writer, publisher, juror and convenor, Janet Mansfield put Australian ceramics on the international stage. Her magazine "Ceramics: Art and Perception" set a ...
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Hanssen Pigott, Gwyn, b. 1935
Gwyn Hanssen Pigott was one of Australia's most distinguished potters whose career extended over more than five decades in Australia, England and France. She has ...
Rogers, Ray, b. 1935
Ray Rogers made a significant contribution to the ceramics medium in both New Zealand and Australia and was especially noted for introducing the pit-firing technique ...
Bostock, Euphemia, b. 1936
Bostock was a founding member of Boomalli Aboriginal art cooperative in 1987, for which she designed the logo. Her artistic career has included printmaking, textile ...
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Whiteley, Brett, b. 1939
Brett Whiteley was the first Australian to combine a pop star's persona with that of a visual artist. He worked across the mediums of painting, ...
Lawrence, Lila, b. 1940
Lila Lawrence is a painter, printmaker, weaver and ceramicist who works out of the Boolarng-Nangamai Aboriginal Art Studio in Gerringong, NSW. Her paintings often depict ...
Wood, Rick, b. 1949
Rick Wood was an accomplished potter who was based in regional Queensland and who included a range of traditional glazing techniques and contemporary decorative motifs ...
Orchard, Jenny, b. 1951
Turkish born Jenny Orchard spent her childhood and youth in Zimbabwe, settling in Australia in her mid twenties. In 1981 she began exhibiting her offbeat ...
Hemstead-Callaghan, Debbie, b. 1958
Debbie Hempstead-Callaghan is a self-described environmental and spiritual artist whose work represents birth, spirituality, animals and the environment. She works in the mediums of painting, ...
Atkins, Karen, b. 1962
Karen Atkins, born in Box Hill, Melbourne, is a Sydney based painter, textile designer, art teacher, community and public artist who is as inspired by ...
Barkley, Glenn, b. 1972
Glenn Barkley has had a dual career as both an innovative curator of Australian art and as an a maker of experimental ceramics.
Makrab, Abbas, b. 1976
Born in Baghdad in 1967 Abbas Makrab is an abstract painter and mosaic artist living and working in Sydney.
Wing, Jason, b. 1978
Jason Wing is a young Sydney-based Aboriginal artist who also strongly identifies with his Asian heritage; in fact his art taps into this duality to ...