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Midgley, Sarah, b. 1864
Doll maker and businesswoman, worked in Queensland and Sydney NSW, produced ceramic-faced dolls that were sold nationally and internationally.
Benham, Loui, b. 1868
Loui Benham was born in 1868. She was embroiderer, designer, teacher, woodcarver, pyrographer and painter. Benham exhibited with the West Australian Society of Arts. She ...
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Harcourt, Clewin, b. 1870
Clewin Harcourt had a successful early career as an artist, both in Australia and in Europe. In his later years he lived a life of ...
Vanzetti, Francesco, b. 1878
Artist, designer, metalsmith, architect, farmer, research officer and lecturer. He designed the "Certificate of Award" for the Coolgardie exhibition of 1899. Vanzetti also designed a ...
Miethke, Adelaide, b. 1881
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 ...
Cohen, Eustace Gresley, b. 1882
Architect and designer who exhibited with the West Australian Society of Arts in 1920 and 1922. Cohen's architecture was distinctive and he designed furniture in ...
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Geddes, Norman Bel, b. 1893
Norman Bel Geddes, b.1893, was an industrial designer who designed automobiles and other products. Notably, Bel Geddes designed a corporate emblem for General Motors Holden ...
Rudd, Iris Lorna, b. 1893
Early 20th century Regional Queensland painter, photographer and craftworker. As well as inheriting a strong Protestant work ethic and sense of duty, Iris had initiative ...
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Sellheim, Gert Hugo Emmanuel, b. 1901
Sellheim was a graphic artist and industrial designer. He won the Sulman Prize in 1939 and was one of the first poster artists to work ...
Shaw, Marina Philomena, b. 1903
Painter, china painter, ceramic sculptor and designer who in the1940s won a scholarship to the Slade School of Art but was unable to take it ...
Guthrie, Bessie, b. 1905
Bessie Jean (née Mitchell) Guthrie was a designer, publisher and feminist. She was the first woman to hold a solo design exhibition at the East ...
Brown, Donald C., b. 1909
Donald C. Brown was a lighting designer with Brooks Robinson Pty Ltd after 1933. In 1947, he registered Brown Evans and Co, in equal partnership ...
Hilder, Bim, b. 1909
Bim Hilder was a Sydney based sculptor, printmaker and painter active during the middle decades of the twentieth century. Foundation member of the Sculpture Society, ...
Thompson, Robert McKay, b. 1910
Painter, illustrator, designer and art teacher. He was a very gentle man remembered with affection by past students.
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 ...
Beck, Richard, b. 1912
Beck practised as an industrial designer and graphic artist in the UK and Australia. He designed travel posters for the Orient Line, London Transport, stamps ...
Johnson, John Godschall, b. 1912
An artist of diverse media, a world known violin maker and a committed socialist, Johnson was awarded an OAM in 1991 for services to the ...
Hillier, Rob, b. 1913
Mid 20th century cartoonist, caricaturist, writer, photographer, car driver and designer. Hillier was also a journalist/writer, author of 'Let's buy a terrace house'.
Saunders, Ethel Grace, b. 1913
Commercial artist and painter who exhibited with the West Australian Society of Arts.
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Andrews, Gordon Arthur, b. 1914
Gordon Andrews was one of Australia's prominent mid-20th century multi-disciplinary designers. While best known for designing Australia's first decimal currency notes (1966), his international career ...