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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 ...

Hearn Bros. and Stead

Hearn Bros. and Stead was started by emigre twin brothers Henry and Ernest Hearn, sons of cabinetmaker/chair maker Walter Vincent Hearn. The company is known ...

McConnell, Carl, b. 1926

Chicago born Carl McConnell became the most significant potter in post World War II Brisbane as he introduced porcelain and stone firing techniques to Brisbane. ...

Tomczak, Wieslaw Andrew, b. 1928

Tomczak, a resident of Redfern, Sydney came to Australia in 1953. He worked in trades at Garden Island dockyard. An inventive polymath, he designed 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 ...

Gerstl, Heinz , b. 1937

Fourth generation Viennese cabinetmaker. Worked with his father at the family furniture factory from a young age, joining full time aged 17. Active role in ...

Currie, Ian, b. 1941

Ian Currie was a Queensland potter who specialised in Japanese inspired glazes on his stoneware and porcelain pots. He died after suffering from various forms ...

Greeno, Lola, b. 1946

Lola Greeno is a well-known Tasmanian Aboriginal shell worker, sculptor, installation and fibre artist who also works as a curator and as the Program Officer, ...

Tully, Peter, b. 1947

Artist and gay activist, was included in the Tin Sheds exhibition, "Dead Gay Artists", in 2002.

Ngale, Glory, b. 1948

Puruntatameri, Eddie, b. 1948

Eddie Puruntatameri was Australia's first Indigenous studio potter. After studying at Bagot pottery he returned home to Bathurst Island where he established Tiwi in 1972. ...

Abbakoyok, Alma, b. 1949

Indigenous artist from the Kunwinjku tribe born in 1949. Abbakoyok is known for her plaiting and dyeing work with woven string baskets.

Makigawa, Carlier, b. 1952

Pirard, Deb, b. 1955

Deb Pirard was born in Mt Isa, Queensland in 1955. She creates jewellery and body adornments made from sterling silver, bone, buffalo horn and wood. ...

Framac Pty Ltd

Framac Pty Ltd (Fracom Pty Ltd) were furniture manufacturers in Granville, exhibiting with NSW Furniture Guild Exhibitions, Sydney. Photographs illustrate domestic and commercial tubular metal ...

Barkus, Rosie, b. 1959

A self taught lino-block textile designer from Thursday Island in the Torres Strait. Born in 1959 Barkus's work is held in most major national collections ...