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Blaxland, Antonia, b. 1928
Antonia Blaxland was born into a prominent Sydney family whose friends included the photographers Olive Cotton and Max Dupain. Blaxland worked as an apprentice with ...
Collings, Dahl, b. 1909
Dahl Collings was a painter, commercial artist, graphic and exhibition designer, illustrator, costume and textile designer, photographer and documentary film-maker. Often working in partnership with ...
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Cazneaux, Harold, b. 1878
Cazneaux was the leader of Australian Pictorialist photography in the first half of the 20th century. The soft focussed beauty of his images helped a ...
Hill, Ernestine, b. 1899
Photographer and author. After the publication of The Great Australian Loneliness in 1937, she was arguably one of Australia's most popular writers until the 1950s.
Johnson, John Godschall, b. 1912
An artist of diverse media, a world known violin maker and a committed socialist, Johnson was awarded an OAM in 1991 for services to the ...
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Lindsay, Lionel, b. 1874
The first member of the prolific Lindsay family to become a professional illustrator. A constant experimenter with photography and etching, Lionel Lindsay became a dominant ...
Farran, Emily Mary, b. 1868
A photographer and orchardist, Farran's practice was driven by her practical involvement in the family's innovative and scientifically-based agricultural project. A successful businesswomen, Farran and ...
Dupain, Max, b. 1911
Max Dupain was one of Australia's outstanding photographers of the mid 20th century, specialising in architecture, merchandise, industrial and portrait commissions, as well as his ...
Miller, Godfrey, b. 1893
The New Zealand born Godfrey Miller became one of Australia's most admired artists of the mid-twentieth century. His shyness, combined with the way he continued ...
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 ...
Bamberger, Molly
Bamberger worked across two seemingly unrelated media - leatherworking and photography. Despite spending two years travelling in Europe in 1935-26, she exhibited regularly from 1910 ...
Lyons, Molly
Prolific photographer and photography writer, in collaboration with husband Leo A. Lyons [died 27/01/1982]. Together with their family, Molly and Leo travelled through Africa, the ...
Nicholson, Michael, b. 1916
Michael Nicholson first turned to art shortly before World War II, and in the years after the War sought both nourishment and a new direction ...
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Cotton, Olive, b. 1911
Olive Cotton's black and white photographs are characterised by their use of light to create ambiguity. For most of her life she was better known ...
Holmes, Pat, b. 1915
Photographer, she was apprentice to Harold Cazneaux in the early 1930s. In the late 1930s and early 1940s she ran her own portrait business, she ...
Paul, Constance, b. 1895
Early 20th century painter and illustrator in Australia. Archibald Prize finalist with her painting of Walter Burley Griffin Constance moved to London and had a ...
Lindsay, Peter H., b. 1908
A landscape painter, cartoonist and commercial artist, Peter Hammon Lindsay was the only child of artist Percy Lindsay (the eldest child of the prolific Lindsay ...
Phillips, James Grainger, b. 1915
Mid 20th century Perth and Sydney painter and illustrator.
Pitman, Clare, b. 1905
Clare Pitman (née McMahon) was a sculptor, ceramicist, painter, photographer, poet, pacifist, garden designer, horsewoman and sometime riding teacher. She studied painting and drawing at ...
Hillier, Rob, b. 1913
Mid 20th century cartoonist, caricaturist, writer, photographer, car driver and designer. Hillier was also a journalist/writer, author of 'Let's buy a terrace house'.