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Baker, Allan, b. 1921
Painter, curator, tutor and former window dresser. Baker became Deputy Director of the Art Gallery of Western Australia in 1961. He won numerous prizes.
Baxter, Cedric, b. 1930
Commercial artist, cartoonist and painter. Baxter won the Redcliffe Award for Watercolour in 1966 and the Walkley Award for Cartoon of the Year in 1968.
Currie, Betsey, b. 1905
Painter and teacher who had a long association with J. W. R. Linton and worked at the Linton Institute of Art. She changed her name ...
Greenhalgh, Audrey, b. 1903
A largely self-taught artist best known for her oil paintings of natural subjects, most often the sea. Her interest in abstraction meant her work in ...
Crowe, Irwin F., b. 1908
Painter and craft worker who shared the West Australian section of the 1959 Perth Prize for Contemporary Art with Maurice Stubbs and was also awarded ...
Bayliss, Joan Janet, b. 1925
Bayliss pioneered use of art in psychology for treating children with behavioural problems. She also raised money for Alzheimer's research via her artwork.
Currie, Herbert Kitchener, b. 1915
Herbert Kitchener Currie was born in 1915. He was a silversmith, woodworker, leatherworker and teacher. Currie ceased work in 1988 when failing eyesight, due to ...
Linton, James Alexander Barrow, b. 1904
Silversmith, sculptor and painter. He was born in 1904. Immediately after the war Linton was the most accomplished silversmith in Australia with a very busy ...
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Kahan, Louis, b. 1905
Louis Kahan was a versatile, multi-talented artist and designer. He served in the French Foreign Legion and worked as a tailor in Paris where he ...
Erickson, Frederica Lucy, b. 1908
Wildflower painter, botanical illustrator, author, naturalist and teacher whose many honours included the Order of Australia (Gen Div.) for service to the arts and an ...
Landells, Flora Annie Margaret, b. 1888
Flora Landells was born in 1888 in Adelaide. She was a successful painter and potter and did much to encourage an interest in pottery in ...
Martin, David
David Martin won the Charles Hamilton Memorial Prize in 1972.
McClintock, Herbert, b. 1906
Mid 20th century political and surrealist painter, cartoonist, commercial artist and singer.
McDiven, Bryant, b. 1923
Painter who was President of the Perth Society of Artists 1955-1958 and 1961-1962. He won the Claude Hotchin Prize for watercolours in 1961 and the ...
Miller, Marie
Weaver Marie Miller, who arrived from England in 1915, started weaving in 1945 and built up a network of clients all over Australia. She taught ...
Missingham, Hal, b. 1906
Western Australian born painter, photographer, illustrator and author. He also had an active interest in design issues authoring a book, "Design Focus" for architects, craftworkers ...
McNamara, Frank, b. 1916
Worked as a commercial artist before enlisting in the services in WWII. He exhibited watercolours of "almost photographic accuracy".
Lightly (nee Allen), Mavis Elizabeth, b. 1911
West Australian artist
Buzacott, Nutter, b. 1905
Buzacott was a printmaker, commercial artist (graphic designer), political illustrator, painter and teacher. A mural by Buzacott is also known. He travelled widely in Australia ...
Fry, Ella J. Osborn, b. 1916
Ella Fry was painter, teacher, printmaker and pianist whose prints had a dark, almost surrealist quality reflecting the uncertain times in which she lived. She ...