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Mann, Gother Kerr, b. 1809
Irish male colonial engineer and soldier who travelled to India, New Zealand and Australia. In the process, he designed weapons and prisons, sketched Maori chiefs, ...
Hogarth, Julius, b. 1820
Professional jeweller, smith, sculptor, engraver and diesinker of Danish origin. Resided and worked in Sydney and later Melbourne, is distinguished for his incorporation of Australian ...
Willson, John Henry, b. 1822
Architect, decorator and scene painter. As city architect he designed the present facade and vestibule of the Sydney Town Hall as well as the Woolloomooloo ...
Dean, Edward Charles, b. 1832
Edward Charles Dean was born in 1832. He was designer and draughtsman who won an award at the Inter-Colonial Exhibition in Victoria 1866-67 and one ...
Mault, Patty, b. 1850
Colonial female lace-maker whose Gothic revival style and Celtic interlacing title pages illuminated the names of Queen Victoria and Lady Smith, before bringing the Tasmanian ...
Gibbney, A. James, b. 1859
Gibbney started Gibbney's firm of art-engravers which was a major deliverer of graphic design for advertisements and other projects for the printing industry in Perth.
Midgley, Sarah, b. 1864
Doll maker and businesswoman, worked in Queensland and Sydney NSW, produced ceramic-faced dolls that were sold nationally and internationally.
Benham, Loui, b. 1868
Loui Benham was born in 1868. She was embroiderer, designer, teacher, woodcarver, pyrographer and painter. Benham exhibited with the West Australian Society of Arts. She ...
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Harcourt, Clewin, b. 1870
Clewin Harcourt had a successful early career as an artist, both in Australia and in Europe. In his later years he lived a life of ...
Vanzetti, Francesco, b. 1878
Artist, designer, metalsmith, architect, farmer, research officer and lecturer. He designed the "Certificate of Award" for the Coolgardie exhibition of 1899. Vanzetti also designed a ...
Miethke, Adelaide, b. 1881
Teacher, inspector, unionist and organiser, in South Australia. When the former Women Assistants' Association (SA) became the Women Teachers' Association in 1906 she was elected ...
Cohen, Eustace Gresley, b. 1882
Architect and designer who exhibited with the West Australian Society of Arts in 1920 and 1922. Cohen's architecture was distinctive and he designed furniture in ...
Rudd, Iris Lorna, b. 1893
Early 20th century Regional Queensland painter, photographer and craftworker. As well as inheriting a strong Protestant work ethic and sense of duty, Iris had initiative ...
Cavanagh, Lily Gladys, b. 1894
Embroiderer, designer and woodcarver who exhibited with the West Australian Society of Arts in 1911.
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Sellheim, Gert Hugo Emmanuel, b. 1901
Sellheim was a graphic artist and industrial designer. He won the Sulman Prize in 1939 and was one of the first poster artists to work ...
Shaw, Marina Philomena, b. 1903
Painter, china painter, ceramic sculptor and designer who in the1940s won a scholarship to the Slade School of Art but was unable to take it ...
Tribe, John E., b. 1904
Tribe was sent to the sanatorium at Wooroloo where he took art therapy under Guy Grey Smith. He won the Claude Hotchin Art Prize twice.
Guthrie, Bessie, b. 1905
Bessie Jean (née Mitchell) Guthrie was a designer, publisher and feminist. She was the first woman to hold a solo design exhibition at the East ...
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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. ...
Hilder, Bim, b. 1909
Bim Hilder was a Sydney based sculptor, printmaker and painter active during the middle decades of the twentieth century. Foundation member of the Sculpture Society, ...