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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 ...
Gabori, Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally, b. 1924
As with other Kaiadilt women, Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori wove grass nets and carved coolamons for many years before she began to paint. Her first ...
Goodale, Jane, b. 1926
Anthropologist Goodale spent many years studying and photographing the native people of Oceania, especially the Tiwi people of Northern Australia.
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Gazzard, Marea, b. 1928
Marea Gazzard was a sculptor in clay and bronze. After training in ceramics, she studied sculpture with Lyndon Dadswell and had her first solo exhibition ...
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 ...
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 ...
Andrews, Munmurria Daisy, b. 1935
Munmarria Daisy Andrews first came to prominence when she was awarded the Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award in 1994. Her paintings ...
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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 ...
Lees, Margaret , b. 1936
Petyarre, Kathleen, b. 1938
After first working in batik, Kwementyaye (Kathleen) Petyarre turned to painting in 1987. Her precise paintings of her country and her culture led to her ...
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 ...
Yunupingu, Gulumbu, b. 1945
Using distinctive white and black crosses on a red ground, Yogngu artist Gulumbu Yunupingu (1945-2012) painted Garak, the starry universe, on barks and poles. She ...
Johnston, Pam, b. 1947
An Aboriginal artist and a printmaker, Johnston is best known for her shocking work 'Untitled' which addressed the issue of Indigenous deaths in custody and ...
Bezor, Annette, b. 1950
Annette Bezor was one of the new wave feminist artists to emerge in Adelaide in the 1970s. Her characteristic paintings were studies of voluptuously beautiful ...
Phoenix, Frances, b. 1950
Contemporary political feminist printmaker, Phoenix (Budden) created political feminist prints, posters and needlework in the 1970s. Her work 'Remember Mick Fowler' is held in the ...
Collett, Annabelle, b. 1956
Collett was a mixed media artist who designed costume, furniture, textiles, painted, designed interiors and assembled work from her "Museum of 20th Century Fabric", a ...
Johnson, Christine, b. 1959
Since her graduation from Caulfield Institute of Technology's Fine Arts program in 1979, Christine Johnson's primary focus is on painting. Additionally, at various times in ...
Laing, Rosemary, b. 1959
Laing is most well known for her fantastical landscape images of bush floors and rocky outcrops laid with vintage Feltex carpet. Amazingly these scenes are ...
Byrne, Carmel Francesca, b. 1960
Carmel works out of Scratch Art Space, an Artist Run Initiative she founded and now manages in Marrickville.