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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 ...
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.
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Onus, Bill, b. 1906
William Townsend (Bill) Onus 1906-68. As an artist, entrepeneur, actor and activist Bill Onus made an significant contribution to Art and Aboriginality in postwar Melbourne. ...
Carter, Thelma, b. 1910
Thelma Carter (1910-1995) was a Gurnai fibre artist who lived in east Gippsland, Victoria.
Thorpe, Alice, b. 1914
Weaver, was born in the Lake Boga district of Victoria in 1914.
Hart, Connie, b. 1917
Highly regarded Gunditjmara basket weaver and community elder who began weaving in her 60s and facilitated the regeneration of localised Victorian Indigenous weaving practices. Self-taught ...
Mullett, Rachel, b. 1935
Gunnai/Monero mixed-media artist and painter from East Gippsland who won the Deadly Art Award at the 2006 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards. She was taught by ...
Birch, Brian, b. 1936
Brian Birch, a Wurundjeri man and decendant of the Yarra Yarra tribe of Melbourne Victoria, won the NGV Acquistive Art Award in the 2006 Victorian ...
Sailor, Grace, b. 1939
Yorta Yorta weaver who learnt the craft from Gunditjmara weaver Connie Hart, and participated in the 2006 'Our Mob' Exhibition at the Adelaide Festival Centre.
Connelly, Lucy Williams, b. 1940
Waradgerie painter, wood burner, emu egg carver and basket maker based in Swan Hill, Victoria. Trained in bark painting and wood burning by her father, ...
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 ...
Kunda-Beamo, , b. 1941
Self taught Yamagi painter Kunda-Beamo was a finalist in the 2005 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards with his synthetic polymer on canvas painting titled 'Rock Art'.
Solomon, Jennifer, b. 1942
Jennifer Solomon is a Thangatti (NSW) painter who was a finalist in the 2005 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards with her painting, 'Sunset along the Gippsland ...
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 ...
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.
Briggs, Glennys, b. 1948
Taungwurrung-Yorta Yorta artist based on the Gold Coast, Queensland, whose paintings seek to enrich audiences' sense of connection with the land.
Onus, Lin, b. 1948
The award-winning artist Lin Onus (b.1948 d.1996) was self taught. He was the Victorian representative of the Aboriginal Arts Board of the Australia Council in ...
Reynolds, Nyree, b. 1948
Nyree Reynolds is a painter. Her Gamillaroi heritage inspires her contemporary practice and her love of animals inspires her pet portraits. She currently conducts art ...
Roberts, Bluey, b. 1948
Ngarrindjeri/Kokatha painter, emu egg carver and muralist who participated in the 'Tactility' exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia in 2003.
Andrew, Veronica, b. 1949
Veronica Andrew is the mother of well-known artist Brook Andrew. An Indigenous artist, Andrew had her work exhibited in the 2001 exhibition "Gatherings, Contemporary Aboriginal ...