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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.
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 ...
Griffin, Marion Mahony, b. 1871
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Adams, Cecily, b. 1910
Cecily Adams was senior decorator at Beard Watsons, Sydney, later in private practice in Castlecrag. She was a founding member of the SIDA in 1951. ...
Taplin, Bea, b. 1911
Taplin was an interior designer and textile designer working from a studio in Toorak Road, South Yarra, later "Colour Cottage", Murphy Street, South Yarra. Her ...
White, Mary, b. 1912
White studied at the East Sydney Technical College, founded the Mary White School of Art (and design), worked as an automobile stylist GM Holden ca. ...
Orlay, Susan, b. 1913
Orlay "trained in furniture design and graphic arts at the Schools of Applied Art in Budapest, Stuttgart and Vienna". While studying, she worked as a ...
Stewart, Joan, b. 1930
Stewart trained at the Melbourne Institute of Technology (later RMIT) and was the secretary of the Interior Design Association of Australia (IDAA) established ca.1949. She ...
Andrews, Judy, b. 1932
Andrews was a garden designer with training at the Ryde TAFE College. She worked as Judy Andrews Garden Design, Gordon specialising in domestic garden design. ...
Lockyer, Anne, b. 1935
Lockyer began her career in commercial and domestic interior design in Brisbane working as Anne Lockyer Interior Design ca.1969. She became a member of the ...