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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 ...
Donald, Isabel Roberta St Margaret, b. 1914
Mid 20th-century sketcher and nurse, Suter kept a secret diary throughout her postings with the army that she filled with humorous cartoons that depicted the ...
Allen, Joyce L. McC, b. 1916
Brisbane born painter and printmaker and a student of Thea Proctor and Joy Ewart. Allen was a regular exhibitor with the Print Council of Australia ...
Vernon, Mavis, b. 1916
Mavis Vernon was a capable practitioner on both oil and watercolour painting and, although she never held a solo exhibition of her work, has a ...
Norrie, Mary, b. 1917
Mary Norrie has been a consistent exhibitior in art prizes throughout Queensland since the late 1950s and was awarded numerous prizes. She was also Queensland's ...
Quelhurst, Betty, b. 1919
Betty Quelhurst was a painter. She served in the Air Force for four years during World War Two. Having saved for years she was able ...
Thorpe, Lesbia, b. 1919
Thorpe was best known for her woodcuts and colour prints for which she won many prizes.
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Cilento, Margaret, b. 1923
Painter and printmaker. Resident of Queensland, New South Wales, America and Europe. Underhill firmly believes that Cilento should be acknowledged as introducing Abstract Expressionism to ...
Olley, Margaret, b. 1923
After her first Australian solo painting exhibitions, Olley worked and exhibited in France in the 1950s. An endearing personality, Olley had many travelling and working ...
Opala, Rosemary, b. 1923
Late 20th century Queensland cartoonist, botanical illustrator, painter, journalist and short-story writer. Opala became a nurse during WW2, wanting to do 'something useful' and many ...
Roggenkamp, Patricia Joy, b. 1928
Joy Roggenkamp was a significant watercolour artist in Brisbane during the 1960s and 1970s. The vigour and dash of her execution lays claim to a ...
Churcher, Betty, b. 1931
Betty Churcher, who was the first woman to head both a state and national art gallery, had an extraordinary career in arts education and administration ...
Nash, Dell Claire, b. 1931
Dell Nash was a contemporary impressionist landscape artist of Central Queensland known for her instinctive feel for line and vivid colour and strong psychological and ...
Cummings, Elisabeth, b. 1934
Painter, born in Brisbane, Qld. Resident of Sydney, NSW. After losing her studio in the 1994 bushfires, Cummings used the insurance money to build 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 ...
Hoolihan, Maud, b. 1940
Maud Hoolihan was born in 1940 and is of the Arekerebind/Mitakoodi people of West Queensland. She works in the media of synthetic polymer on board.
McEwan, Sylvia, b. 1944
Sylvia McEwan is a painter and sculptor who lives in Canberra, ACT.
Coopes, Jenny, b. 1945
Contemporary Sydney political cartoonist and illustrator.
Andrew, Veronica, b. 1949
Veronica Andrew is the mother of well-known artist Brook Andrew. An Indigenous artist, Andrew had her work exhibited in the 2001 exhibition "Gatherings, Contemporary Aboriginal ...
MacNamara, Shirley, b. 1949
Shirley MacNamara is a watercolourist and sculptor whose work is inspired by the clashes and interactions between Aboriginal people and the cattle industry. MacNamara also ...