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Stombuco, Andrea, b. 1820

An industrious architect, monumental mason, sculptor and builder who designed 54 public buildings in every Australian state except South Australia.

Fletcher, Winifred Scott, b. 1871

A carver and metalworker Fletcher worked almost exclusively with pewter thanks to improvements in manufacturing. A founding member of the Arts and Crafts Society of ...

Mayo, Daphne, b. 1895

Stronger than the stone she carved, this widely collected female artist's promotion of the arts rivalled her international sculpting career, by setting up several bequests ...

Lautour, Loma Kyle Turnbull, b. 1902

Lautour was a sculptor, jeweller, embroiderer and commercial designer. After World War II she began making jewellery, and it was as a jeweller that she ...

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. ...

Pitman, Clare, b. 1905

Clare Pitman (née McMahon) was a sculptor, ceramicist, painter, photographer, poet, pacifist, garden designer, horsewoman and sometime riding teacher. She studied painting and drawing at ...

Aarons, Anita, b. 1912

Anita Aarons had a diverse career working as a jeweller, sculptor, art administrator, radio commentator, teacher and art editor for an architecture publication, while living ...

Johnson, John Godschall, b. 1912

An artist of diverse media, a world known violin maker and a committed socialist, Johnson was awarded an OAM in 1991 for services to the ...

Walker, Ralph Trafford, b. 1912

Sculptor and printmaker, designed 16 of the 18 relief panels for one of the main Mitchell Library bronze doors, appointed an official war artist with ...

Highton, Clothilde, b. 1914

Painter, mural painter, modeller, puppet-maker, theatre and diorama artist. Her dioramas were popular and toured extensively in the UK and Australia during the 1950s.

Blin, Rene, b. 1943

Lithuanian born Australian artist Rene Blin has worked in ceramics and sculpture. She has gained numerous awards including a Premier's Grant in 1993.

McEwan, Sylvia, b. 1944

Sylvia McEwan is a painter and sculptor who lives in Canberra, ACT.

Mills, Wendy, b. 1950

Wendy Mills is an Australian visual artist whose practice has ranged from temporary installations, to interactive computer works, to commissioned public art. Much of her ...