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Biriban, , b. 1800
Biriban or Johnny McGill was best known as a language informant for the Reverend Lancelot Threlkeld a Minister and linguist in the 1830s. Threlkeld thought ...
Bungaree, Bowen, b. 1804
Bowen Bungaree is attributed as the first documented Aboriginal artist with the sketch Representation of a woman by a native of NSW, 1823. Bowan Bungaree ...
, Mickey of Ulladulla, b. 1825
Mickey of Ulladulla was an Aboriginal artist active in the ninetenth century on the south coast of NSW. Five of his paintings were included posthumously ...
McCrae, Tommy, b. 1842
The artist Yakaduna, better known as Tommy McCrae, through his art and actions, involved his community in the entrepreneurial management of indigenous-settler affairs.
Timbery, Emma, b. 1842
Celebrated shellworker, Emma Timbery of La Perouse, NSW, exhibited her shellworks in England in 1910.
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Onus, Bill, b. 1906
William Townsend (Bill) Onus 1906-68. As an artist, entrepeneur, actor and activist Bill Onus made an significant contribution to Art and Aboriginality in postwar Melbourne. ...
Brown, Reuben Ernest, b. 1928
An Aboriginal man from the Yuin people of the south coast of New South Wales, Reuben Ernest Brown was born in Brookevale in 1928 and ...
Dux, Daphne Kal-Ma-Kuta, b. 1928
Daphne Kal-Ma-Kuta Dux was born in Brisbane in 1928 and began painting at the age of seventy-seven. Though she says, 'I'm a dotter, not a ...
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Timbery, Esme, b. 1931
Shellworker, Esme Timbery lives and works in La Perouse, NSW. Her shellworked harbour bridges are created from wood, glue, cardboard, fabric, glitter and shells gathered ...
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 ...
Kennedy, Roy, b. 1934
Indigenous printmaker born in 1934, Roy Kennedy's work can be found in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia and the Australian National Maritime ...
Mullett, Rachel, b. 1935
Gunnai/Monero mixed-media artist and painter from East Gippsland who won the Deadly Art Award at the 2006 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards. She was taught by ...
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 ...
Thanakupi, , b. 1937
Ceramicist whose pottery was informed by the artist's sense of clay's sacred purpose within traditional ceremonial life at the artist's home in Weipa. Her pots ...
Connelly, Lucy Williams, b. 1940
Waradgerie painter, wood burner, emu egg carver and basket maker based in Swan Hill, Victoria. Trained in bark painting and wood burning by her father, ...
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 ...
Adams, Margaret, b. 1941
Indigenous painter, Margaret Adams was born in Moree in Central Western NSW in 1941. In 2005 she was a finalist in the Parliament of NSW ...
Budge, Milton, b. 1941
Milton Budge, Thungutti painter was born in 1941 on Burnt Bridge Mission in Kempsey on the NSW mid-north coast. His paintings depict local Dreaming stories, ...
Duncan, Joy, b. 1941
Joy Duncan is a founding member of the Euraba Paper Company whose works of ochre on cotton rag pulp paper were exhibited in the 2005 ...
Dungay, Mabel, b. 1941
Mabel Dungay is a painter whose work depicts the memories she has of growing up on Burnt Bridge Mission near Kempsey, NSW as well as ...