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Biriban, , b. 1800
Biriban or Johnny McGill was best known as a language informant for the Reverend Lancelot Threlkeld a Minister and linguist in the 1830s. Threlkeld thought ...
Bungaree, Bowen, b. 1804
Bowen Bungaree is attributed as the first documented Aboriginal artist with the sketch Representation of a woman by a native of NSW, 1823. Bowan Bungaree ...
Legallé, , b. 1819
19th Century Tasmanian Aboriginal artist of the Larmairretorhe people (Northern Tribe) whose drawing of a cockatoo is in the collection of the Tasmanian Museum and ...
Barak, William, b. 1824
Wurundjeri Ngurungaeta (headman) and artist, William Barak created over fifty distinctive charcoal drawings with natural ochres and water colour of purely Aboriginal subjects. A politician ...
, Mickey of Ulladulla, b. 1825
Mickey of Ulladulla was an Aboriginal artist active in the ninetenth century on the south coast of NSW. Five of his paintings were included posthumously ...
McCrae, Tommy, b. 1842
The artist Yakaduna, better known as Tommy McCrae, through his art and actions, involved his community in the entrepreneurial management of indigenous-settler affairs.
Monop, William, b. 1843
Born c. 1843 of Giragiok 'family', and Ballarruk section, Monop resided for some years at the New Norcia Mission, WA; and, later in life, in ...
of Cooktown, Oscar, b. 1877
'Oscar of Cooktown' is known only by the one book of drawings which was fortuitously preserved in the collection of the National Museum of Australia, ...
Kelly, Bella, b. 1915
Noongar Aboriginal landscape artist from Mount Barker who is strongly associated with the Carrolup school of artists. Well remembered and respected in the southwest, Great ...
Indich, Keith, b. 1934
Noongar artist who spent part of his childhood at the Carrolup Native Settlement, later recognised as one of the celebrated Carrolup children artists.
Richardson, Eva, b. 1936
Eva Richardson is a Trawlwoolway kelp-work artist who has a "kelp water carrier" in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Australia. Eva also ...
Kelly, Alan, b. 1939
Carrolup child artist who was still painting in 2009 in association with Mungart Boodja Art Centre. Participated in the 2009 Brisbane Powerhouse exhibition 'The Legacy ...
Harrison, Frank, b. 1941
Taught artefact making by Elders on Lake Tyers Mission, canoe maker, artefact maker, painter and drawer who lives and works in Lakes Entrance, Victoria. He ...
Beckett, Gloria, b. 1943
A Waka Waka/Kallilia artist, the work of Queensland-born Gloria Beckett often reflects the pain and suffering she endured after being forcibly removed from her family ...
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Nannup, Laurel, b. 1943
Printmaker based in Perth, Western Australia, who works in woodcut and etchings. Nannup is represented in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Queensland ...
O'Loughlin, Irene, b. 1944
Melbourne-based Narungga artist whose paintings are inspired by her memories of growing up on Point Pearce Mission Station and her ancestral lands in the Yorke ...
Johnston, Pam, b. 1947
An Aboriginal artist and a printmaker, Johnston is best known for her shocking work 'Untitled' which addressed the issue of Indigenous deaths in custody and ...
Nichols, Verna, b. 1947
Verna Nichols is a Tasmanian Aboriginal painter, drawer, silk screen printmaker, weaver and kelp worker who works from her home in Hobart, Tasmania.
Soewardie, Jake, b. 1948
Jake Soewardie is a Kamilaroi landscape oil painter whose work is inspired by mountain caves and the environments of The Blue Mountains and Kangaroo Valley. ...
Bryant, Katey, b. 1950
Drawer and storyteller who lives in Sale, Victoria. Grew up in Cootamundra Girls Home in southern New South Wales and is associated with the East ...