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Findlay, Rita, b. 1893
Findlay began her career as a commercial artist, later becoming advertising manager for the celebrated George's department store, Melbourne. She was an influential figure in ...
Rees, Ann Gillmore, b. 1893
Ann Gilmore Rees, an English printmaker, designer and illustrator, migrated to Sydney Australia in 1939. She regularly exhibited with the Contemporary Group in Sydney from ...
Cavanagh, Lily Gladys, b. 1894
Embroiderer, designer and woodcarver who exhibited with the West Australian Society of Arts in 1911.
Greene, Nancy, b. 1894
After her father lost much of his wealth, Greene, although under no pressure, felt obliged to find work. She worked as a commercial artist, specialising ...
Buxton, Jessamine, b. 1895
Buxton was a painter, sculptor and designer of stained-glass windows. A versatile artist, she worked across a wide range of media.
Shillito, Phyllis, b. 1895
Shillito was a designer and educator. She taught in the UK, Brisbane Technical College 1923, Sydney Technical College 1925. She became Head, East Sydney Technical ...
Anderson, Alice, b. 1897
Anderson was a Victorian motor mechanic, opening perhaps the nation's first female motor garage in Kew, Victoria. She designed an "up and under" (known widely ...
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Roach, Elma May Victoria, b. 1897
Whitford, Dora, b. 1898
Etcher, painter, commercial artist and stained glass designer, designed rose window and six memorial windows in Stow Memorial Church, Adelaide.
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 ...
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 ...
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Benporath, Norma, b. 1900
Guest, Nancy, b. 1901
Painter. In 1926 Guest won the National Gallery Travelling Scholarship with her oil 'The Fortune Teller.'
Herzger, Gertrude, b. 1901
According to interviews and an investigation by architect Bruce Eeles, Herzger studied at the Bauhaus, Weimar in 1919-1920. Herzger drawings for Walter Gropius's design for ...
Herzger-Seligmann, Gertrude, b. 1901
Herzger-Seligmann was a bauhaus-trained designer (1922-1924), working in Frankfurt-am-Main, then for the Gropius practice before he immigrated to the UK. She left Germany, arriving in ...
Cottew, Vera, b. 1902
Vera Cottew's career as an art teacher in Brisbane spanned more than 20 years, during which time she influenced many of her female students and, ...
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Keys, Eileen, b. 1903
Medworth, Muriel, b. 1903
Watercolour painter, interior decorator, textile and fashion designer, ceramicist and teacher, pursued her career in London and Australia.
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 ...
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 ...