Dircksey Constance Cowan was born in 1880. She was an amateur artist. Cowan's mother was Edith Cowan - noted feminist and the first woman parliamentarian ...
Important early 20th century political, Dyson was appointed an official war cartoonist in 1916. Working extensively both in Australia and overseas, Dyson was married to ...
Federation era Brisbane and Sydney painter, illustrator, caricaturist and cartoonist. In 1904 Mabelle Edmonds stated that her ambition was 'to draw for ever and ever', ...
Lars Halvorsen was a Norwegian boat builder who immigrated to Australia in 1924 where he established a boat design and construction firm. After his death, ...
Hilder's delicate, sensitive landscape watercolours were enthusiastically received when they were first exhibited in the early years of the century. This was in part because ...
Enamel and metal worker,devoted a good part of her life to the various crafts that interested her. Lived in the Leviny home, Buda, outside Castlemaine, ...
Teacher, inspector, unionist and organiser, in South Australia. When the former Women Assistants' Association (SA) became the Women Teachers' Association in 1906 she was elected ...
Painter, author, patron, philanthropist. After World War I he travelled to Europe and studied art where his abstract compositions reflect a life of leisure and ...
After studying painting under Margaret Preston, who she travelled with to Paris and London, she taught craft to shell-shocked soldiers. On returning to Australia she ...
Florence Aline Rodway had a splendid career as a portraitist but preferred to do more complex compositions with figures. Together with artists such as Thea ...