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Douglas, Mollie, b. 1920
Molly Douglas - potter and educator - was a founding member of the Potters' Society of New South Wales. In the early 1950s, she moved ...
Foster, Isabel, b. 1921
Foster works in textiles with stitching techniques, knotting, crochet, in a eclectic range of forms. He has a special interest in recycling and repurposing materials. ...
Le Grand, Henri, b. 1921
Le Grand came to Australia in 1950 and became a teacher at the Canberra Technical College.
Williams, Ray Forest, b. 1921
Williams was a career Royal Australian Navy officer (retired 1971) who also co-founded the surfwear brand Pratts with his brother Bill, making board shorts and ...
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 ...
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Englund, Patricia, b. 1922
Howard, Ian, b. 1923
Howard is the founder of Aristoc, a Melbourne furniture design and manufacturing firm (1946-1968). Aristoc produced furniture for Grant Featherstone, Fred Lowen, Ernst Rodeck, William ...
Joynes, Heather, b. 1923
Joynes was an embroiderer and needleworker working in Sydney. She was an active member of the Embroiderers Guild NSW, exhibiting in their exhibitions and other ...
Campbell, Joan Ruth, b. 1925
Joan Campbell was a seminal figure in Australian and Western Australian ceramics. An early specialist in Raku, she created a substantial body of work, shared ...
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. ...
Sadlo, Alexander, b. 1927
Alexander Sadlo is a modernist painter, ceramist, enameller and jeweller who fled from the Communist regime in post-war Czechoslovakia, migrating to Australia and settling in ...
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Goldberg, Jean, b. 1928
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 ...
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Moritz, Heinz, b. 1931
Dorrough, Heather, b. 1933
Dorrough was born in London where she worked as an interior designer. She came to Australia via New York and continued her interiors work while ...
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Levy, Col, b. 1933
Col Levy is one of the generation of post World War II potters who was strongly influenced by the aesthetic of Japanese Stoneware, especially Bizen ...
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 ...
Hall, Ben, b. 1935
Hall trained as an architect at Sydney University, later tutoring after 1963 in addition to his architectural practice. He also painted and drew, exhibiting with ...
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Muncaster, Ron, b. 1936
Muncaster was a designer working in costume design, notably costume developed for the Sydney Mardi Gras parade. He began designing costume for the parade in ...
Vatiliotis, Harry, b. 1936
Vatiliotis is a violin maker with a workshop in Sydney. He was an apprentice at the firm of master maker A.E. Smith.