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Mort, Eirene, b. 1879
Designer and craftworker, Sydney, NSW, she was a prolific designer of textiles and various Applied Arts, often featuring Australian floral motifs, and was well known ...
Hardess, Catherine, b. 1889
Fabric designer, she worked in collaboration with Mollie Grove. Together they established a business and from 1940 until the early 1960s, they worked as artist-craftswomen ...
Broadhurst, Florence, b. 1899
Acclaimed singer, dancer, actress, artist and designer. Broadhurst was most well known for her vibrant wall-paper designs which were sought after in Australia and internationally ...
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Benporath, Norma, b. 1900
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Murch, Arthur James, b. 1902
Painter and sculptor, assistant to George Lambert, and in World War II the War artist who captured images of the bombed city of Darwin. Later ...
Annand, Douglas, b. 1903
One of Australia's best known graphic and poster artists, Douglas Annand also had a distinguished career as a camouflage artist during the Second World War. ...
Crockford, Myrtle, b. 1905
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Pyke, Guelda Esther Leah, b. 1905
Australian ceramist, jewellery and fashion designer who, after visits to Bali and training with George Bell, took up painting in the 1950s and worked in ...
Taylor, Violet, b. 1905
Wildflower painter and embroiderer. The family hold a number of pieces of her work and these range from oil and watercolour paintings of wildflowers, china ...
Afford, Thelma, b. 1908
Costume designer, performer, actor and fashion journalist with a practice from Broken Hill, Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne. She also designed costumes for early Australian TV ...
Kingston, Amie, b. 1908
Mid 20th century painter, printmaker, theatrical designer and art teacher. Textile prints commissioned by Marion Hall Best ca.1942 are known. Amy Kingston worked prolifically in ...
Collings, Dahl, b. 1909
Dahl Collings was a painter, commercial artist, graphic and exhibition designer, illustrator, costume and textile designer, photographer and documentary film-maker. Often working in partnership with ...
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Holt, Zara, b. 1909
Holt was a fashion designer who began with a dress shop in Melbourne in partnership with Betty James in 1930. Her biographer, P. A. Pemberton, ...
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 ...
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Mackenzie, Alexandra Agnes Nance, b. 1912
Female fabric designer and printmaker who worked with Annie Outlaw in Sydney to establish colourful designs with Australian motifs for international markets during the 1940s ...
Fullarton, Nancy Edith, b. 1913
Mid 20th century Sydney and London painter, children's book illustrator, comic strip artist and ballet costume designer. Creator of Frisky the Rabbit.
Danciger, Alice, b. 1914
A painter, theatre and fabric designer who worked with some of the most significant modernist artists in Australia.
Ashworth, Olive, b. 1915
Commercial artist, textile designer and photographer. Ashworth is best known for her textile designs that were based on sketches and photographs of the Great Barrier ...
Abbott Roberts, Mary Margaret, b. 1916
Mary Abbott Roberts, who also exhibited under her maiden name of Mary Abbott, was born in Quirindi in rural New South Wales and studied in ...
Degeus, Maryke, b. 1917
Maryke Degeus was one of the many European migrants whose entry into Australia after World War Two transformed our culture. She was associated with Jon ...