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Buzacotts & Company Ltd

Buzacotts (Qld) Ltd designed & manufactured chrome steel tube furniture under the brand "Steeluxe". (NB: Design historian Virginia Wright UTS) maintains Steeluxe furniture was not ...

Benporath, Norma, b. 1900

McCredie, Bob, b. 1910

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 ...

Hearn Bros. and Stead

Hearn Bros. and Stead was started by emigre twin brothers Henry and Ernest Hearn, sons of cabinetmaker/chair maker Walter Vincent Hearn. The company is known ...

Ricketts & Thorp

Ricketts & Thorp were Sydney manufacturers of fine furniture. The designs were often to the clients' specifications. They worked for the NSW State Government, the ...

Pryor, Aase, b. 1914

Aase Pryor was one of most significant of Milton Moon's pottery students in Brisbane and combined this skill with jewellery design and theatre work when ...

McMeekin, Ivan, b. 1919

Ivan McMeekin was the founder of the Sturt Pottery at Mittagong and one of the founders of the Potters Society of Australia. From 1959-78, he ...

Boddington, Jennie, b. 1922

Jennie Boddington was the first curator of photography to be appointed in Australia. She was responsible for the National Gallery of Victoria's photography collection from ...

McConnell, Carl, b. 1926

Chicago born Carl McConnell became the most significant potter in post World War II Brisbane as he introduced porcelain and stone firing techniques to Brisbane. ...

Tomczak, Wieslaw Andrew, b. 1928

Tomczak, a resident of Redfern, Sydney came to Australia in 1953. He worked in trades at Garden Island dockyard. An inventive polymath, he designed and ...

Moritz, Heinz, b. 1931

Mansfield, Janet, b. 1934

As a speaker, writer, publisher, juror and convenor, Janet Mansfield put Australian ceramics on the international stage. Her magazine "Ceramics: Art and Perception" set a ...

Gerstl, Heinz , b. 1937

Fourth generation Viennese cabinetmaker. Worked with his father at the family furniture factory from a young age, joining full time aged 17. Active role in ...

Currie, Ian, b. 1941

Ian Currie was a Queensland potter who specialised in Japanese inspired glazes on his stoneware and porcelain pots. He died after suffering from various forms ...

Gordon, Robyn, b. 1943

Robyn Gordon is a Sydney based artist who works across a particularly wide range of media, while retaining a thematic interest in the landscape and ...