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Burbury, Thomas, b. 1809
Sentenced to death in 1832 for participating in a protest against automated looms creating unemployment for weavers such as himself, Burbury was sentenced to death ...
Passmore, Henry, b. 1840
Amateur furniture maker, woodcarver and embroiderer who exhibited internationally.
Conder, Charles, b. 1868
Painter Charles Conder is best known in Australia for his association with the Heidelberg School and his involvement with the famous 9 x 5 Impressions ...
Rowbotham, Walter, b. 1878
Painter and teacher, won the Royal College of Art Scholarship and the Royal College of Art Travelling Scholarship. Rowbotham exhibited with West Australian Society of ...
Benison, Percy, b. 1881
Early 20th century Sydney cartoonist, comic book artist, illustrator and costume designer. Benison contributed to a number of publications including the Comic Australian, Home and ...
McKail, Alan, b. 1888
A Melburnian auctioneer, fashion and theatre designer known for his costumes at Melbourne's Artists' Balls. Contemporary police and media reactions to his more flamboyant costumes ...
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. ...
Herbst, Gerard, b. 1911
Herbst was a designer for Prestige (Fabrics) Limited, an illustrator and later principal lecturer at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in industrial design, graphics. In ...
Ludlow, Hall, b. 1919
Ludlow was a fashion designer active in New Zealand, arriving in Australia in 1947. He established a studio in Melbourne where he worked as a ...
Claringbold, John, b. 1928
Fashion designer and couturier based in Melbourne and Darlington Point, New South Wales. Life partner and collaborator of Ross Weymouth.
Claringhold, John, b. 1928
Claringhold is a Melbourne fashion designer. He began working as a window dresser with Mutual Stores, Melbourne, later working for Hicks Atkinson in sales. In ...
Salmon, William, b. 1928
William Salmon described his art as emerging from the landscape. He trained initially in graphic arts at Swinburne Technical College and worked as a textile ...
Rodriquez, John, b. 1929
Rodriquez is a textile designer and manufacturer with training at Melbourne Technical College (later RMIT). He studied industrial design and begun making greeting cards in ...
Fox, Frederick, b. 1931
Fox was a milliner, training in Sydney 1949-1958, later moving to London working for Otto Lucas, Hardy Amies and others. He kept a studio in ...