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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Boyd, David, b. 1924
Brother of Guy, Lucy and Arthur Boyd, David Boyd found acclaim as a potter in the 1950s and ’60s. He began his career as a ...
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Olsen, John, b. 1928
John Olsen's exuberant paintings, which were first exhibited in Sydney in the 1950s, are often celebrations of Sydney, Majorca, marine life, good food and sunshine. ...
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 ...
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Winch, John, b. 1944
Painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and renowned children's books author and illustrator.
Gittoes, George, b. 1949
Painter, draughtsman, printmaker, film maker, performance artist, George Gittoes was one of the artists involved in Sydney's Yellow House before creating a creative hub at ...
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, ...
Hurst, Joe, b. 1960
Sydney based multi-media artist working predominately with sculpture and public art projects. Hurst was born in 1960 and is of Murrawarri descent.
Smith, Dorsey, b. 1968
Dorsey Smith of the Dunghutti and Gumbangerri people of the mid north coast of NSW was born in Kempsey in 1968. Smith is related to ...
Tye, Brenda, b. 1969
Brenda Tye was born in Malaysia in 1969. She is a printmaker specialising in the areas of custom and collaborative printmaking with other artists, and ...
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 ...
Bellamy, Suzanne
An activist for feminist issues, Suzanne Bellamy has been at the forefront of pushing conventional boundaries outwards and exploring both painful personal themes and broader ...
Sinnappan, Louise, b.
Louise Sinnappan is from the Wemba Wemba tribe of South-west New South Wales. She completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts at Latrobe University, Bendigo in ...