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Macquarie, Elizabeth Henrietta, b. 1778
Colonial first lady: female designer of gardens and architecture whose paintings and sketches influenced major works in the fledgling colony of New South Wales. She ...
Richardson-Bunbury, Margaret, b. 1795
Lady Margaret Richardson-Bunbury was born in 1795. She was an embroiderer and garden designer. Lady Richardson-Bunbury formed the first Western Australian branch of the British ...
Darling, Elizabeth, b. 1798
Wife of the Governor New South Wales 1825/1831 Major-General Ralph Darling. She made watercolours and drawings as well as designs for public buildings.
Campbell, Marrianne Collinson, b. 1827
Painter, decorative artist and amateur architect in Duntroon, Canberra. Painted meticulously executed botanical paintings and was known for her medical dispensary.
Barker, Mary Anne, b. 1831
Interior designer and author who married Governor Frederick Napier Broome.
Morris, May, b. 1862
embroiderer, wallpaper and fabric designer, she was the elder daughter of the English designer William Morris. Although she never came to Australia, she had a ...
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Griffin, Marion, b. 1871
Working in the same league as Frank Lloyd Wright and Hermann von Holst, Marion eventually married and worked with Walter Burley Griffin on public and ...
Griffin, Marion Mahony, b. 1871
Abbott, Hilda, b. 1890
Abbott was an interior designer and an early member of the Society of Interior Designers of Australia. Working with the architect, Robert Maclurcan, she was ...
Nosworthy, Ellice, b. 1897
Architect, worked in Sydney, on for example extensions to Women's College Sydney University.
Evatt, Mary Alice, b. 1898
Artist, social activist, art collector and Trustee of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Evatt's best known work was an oil painting entitled 'Footballers' ...
Hammerstein, Dorothy, b. 1899
Hammerstein opened an interior design practice in New York in the early 1930s working as Dorothy Hammerstein Inc. After practicing in the United States, she ...
Edmunds, Rosina Mary, b. 1900
An architect and architectural historian, Rosette Edmunds worked as chief designer on a number of important churches.
Sutherland, Heather, b. 1903
Heather Sutherland worked as an architect in Canberra.
Fiddes, Isabel, b. 1904
Fiddes trained at the Gordon Technical Institute, Geelong and worked with a textile firm SEMCO in Victoria advancing to senior designer. She married the interior ...
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Best, Marion Hall, b. 1905
Interior designer and decorator whose work and achievements exemplify the best of the many dynamic and significant advances that occurred within Australian modernism in the ...
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 ...
Hall Andrew, Winsome, b. 1905
Winsome Hall Andrew was a Sydney architect. She was born in 1905 and died in 1997.
Shaw, Mary (Mollie) Turner, b. 1906
Shaw trained at the Melbourne Technical College and attended the University of Melbourne Atelier, later taking a position with Stephenson & Meldrum (later Stephenson & ...
Lord, Margaret, b. 1908
Lord was an interior designer, journalist, colour consultant and author. She was an energetic promoter of Australian design and designers through her writings and other ...