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Tyers, Charles James, b. 1806
Architectural draughtsman, main body of work contained in sketchbook 1837-39, containing typical surveyor-draughtsman style views of the coast and landscapes of Victoria.
Pelham, Lionel James, b. 1808
Lionel James Pelham was a sketcher and public servant. He was born in Kent in 1808. In 1875 he died at sea, near Darwin, in ...
Sweet, Samuel White, b. 1825
Colonial photographer and master mariner, awarded a silver medal for his photographs at the Calcutta International Exhibition in 1885. His photographic career included some unusual ...
Panton, Joseph Anderson, b. 1831
Joseph Anderson Panton was a painter, etcher and police magistrate. He mapped the Yarra Valley while he was magistrate at Heidelberg. Panton Hill is named ...
Stockdale, Harry, b. 1841
Harry Stockdale was sketcher, collector, explorer and horseman who also contributed articles on Aborigines and other subjects to various periodicals in the late 1800s.
Pink, Olive Muriel, b. 1884
Pink was an artist with training at the Hobart Technical College and the Julian Ashton School, Sydney. Working from a base in the Northern Territory, ...
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Fairweather, Ian, b. 1891
The Scottish born artist Ian Fairweather travelled extensively throughout South East Asia and China before finally building a thatched hut on Bribie Island off the ...
Battarbee, Rex, b. 1893
An early advocate of indigenous art, Rex Battarbee represented Arrernte artists in his Alice Springs home, which he later turned into the Tmara-Mara Gallery.
Fitzer, Eileen, b. 1902
Embroiderer and longtime Northern Territory resident, she embroidered signature cloths at Pine Creek in the early part of the 20th century and was represented at ...
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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 ...
Aikin, Hamilton, b. 1904
English male photographer, film-maker, editor and Presbyterian priest who went outback for Outreach, a Church journal, documenting indigenous cultures and mission activity.
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Bryans, Lina, b. 1909
A somewhat peripatetic artist whose wanderlust took her to Europe, America and Central Australia, Lina Bryans was noted for her landscapes and her abstract modernism.
Blacksmith, Peter Japanangka, b. 1915
A Katurrngarruru artist, Blacksmith was a well-known painter in Lajamanu, to which his own land lay in close proximity. His work features in the collection ...
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Tuckson, Tony, b. 1921
For much of his life Tony Tuckson's reputation was as the Assistant Director of he Art Gallery of New South Wales, passionately advocating for Aboriginal ...
Bennett, Dorothy, b. 1923
Dorothy Bennett was introduced to Aboriginal art when she was a medical secretary accompanying Dr Stuart Scougall on an excursion to the Northern Territory. She ...
Byrnes, Mona, b. 1923
Painter and photographer, was born in 1923 on the Hermannsburg Mission Station in the Northern Territory, home of the Aranda Aboriginal painters.
Campbell, Lesley, b. 1925
Lesley Campbell is an artist who focuses on the traditional landscape and has made his career painting the spectacular scenery of Central Australia and the ...
Goodale, Jane, b. 1926
Anthropologist Goodale spent many years studying and photographing the native people of Oceania, especially the Tiwi people of Northern Australia.
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Bird, Ada Petyarre, b. 1930
Anmatyerre artist and a senior woman in Utopia, Bird's batiks and canvases are held in major collections in Australia and overseas. She is featured in ...
Nangala, Nellie, b. 1938
Nellie Nangala painted for Papunya Tula Artists in the 1980s. She is the daughter of Walter Tjampitjinpa and widow of Two Bob Tjungurrayi.