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Munday, Marian, b. 1850
The 1910 exhibition of the Arts and Crafts Society of New South Wales included for the first time a display of art pottery from which ...
Chauvel, Lilian, b. 1867
Painter and designer. Chauvel 'discovered and developed the art of "panchrocis", a delicate technique of paintings on silks and satins, of which she made lamp ...
Sinclair, Henriette, b. 1868
Henriette Sinclair is an example of the pottery students who transferred L.J. Harvey's teaching methods from Brisbane's Central Technical College interstate. She continued to produce ...
Blakemore, Rose, b. 1870
Queensland-born, Sydney-based miniature portrait artist and art teacher active in the early decades of the twentieth century.
Fletcher, Winifred Scott, b. 1871
A carver and metalworker Fletcher worked almost exclusively with pewter thanks to improvements in manufacturing. A founding member of the Arts and Crafts Society of ...
Lake, Florence Thorne, b. 1873
Florence Lake is one of the many female artists active in Australia during the first half of the twentieth century who has almost disappeared from ...
Devereux, Mrs W. P. [Bessie], b. 1874
Mrs W.P. (Bessie) Devereux was one of the most significant and original of L.J. Harvey's early students as she included wheel throwing among her skills.
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Tufnell, Louise, b. 1878
Craftworker, working with fashion and costume designs featuring decorative beadwork and hand embroidery.
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Agar, Bernice, b. 1885
Glamorous and highly accomplished photographer best known for her images of Sydney socialites and brides. Such was her skill that when she retired upon marriage ...
Payne, Frances, b. 1885
a painter and commercial artist who was born in Brisbane, Queensland. Payne is said to have been one of Australia's highest paid working women of ...
O'Reilly, Maud, b. 1886
Maud O'Reilly was one of L.J. Harvey's students who furthered her skills by studying wheelthrowing and glazing when she visited London in 1925. She made ...
Perry, Adelaide, b. 1891
Painter, printmaker and art teacher with her own studios and art schools in Sydney. Perry also studied, worked and exhibited in London and Paris. Her ...
Crane, Olive, b. 1895
Early 20th century sketcher and book illustrator. She was a contemporary of Grace Crowley and Myra Cocks - the three women were among the 'younger ...
Mayo, Daphne, b. 1895
Stronger than the stone she carved, this widely collected female artist's promotion of the arts rivalled her international sculpting career, by setting up several bequests ...
Taylor, Grace, b. 1897
Grace Taylor (1897-1988) was a commercial artist and potter who grew up in New Zealand and migrated to Australia in 1926.
Allan, Ailsa, b. 1898
Australian born painter and printmaker, Allan studied with Thea Proctor and Adelaide Perry at Julian Ashton's Sydney Art School in the late 1920s. Proctor would ...
Bennett, Portia Mary, b. 1898
Portia Bennett trained at the Royal Art Society School under Dattilo Rubbo and then at the Julian Ashton Art school where she was friendly with ...
Williamson, Rene, b. 1898
Rene Williamson was typical of many female artists during the inter war years of the twentieth century who hade a career out of painting floral ...
Hill, Ernestine, b. 1899
Photographer and author. After the publication of The Great Australian Loneliness in 1937, she was arguably one of Australia's most popular writers until the 1950s.
Cottrell, Dorothy, b. 1902
Mid 20th century sketcher, cartoonist and novelist.