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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 ...
Barker, Caroline, b. 1894
Caroline Barker had a long career in Brisbane as an artist and teacher and for many years, especially after the death of Vida Lahey, was ...
Churcher, Betty, b. 1931
Betty Churcher, who was the first woman to head both a state and national art gallery, had an extraordinary career in arts education and administration ...
De Aragon, Cida, b. 1964
Brazilian born artist with training in art, architecture and graphic design. Her art practice ranges across permanent and temporary works, often engaging with public spaces.
Coleman, Dorothy, b. 1899
Photographer and painter. She was Brisbane's leading society photographer between 1935 and 1960.
Cummings, Elisabeth, b. 1934
Painter, born in Brisbane, Qld. Resident of Sydney, NSW. After losing her studio in the 1994 bushfires, Cummings used the insurance money to build a ...
Broadhurst, Florence, b. 1899
Acclaimed singer, dancer, actress, artist and designer. Broadhurst was most well known for her vibrant wall-paper designs which were sought after in Australia and internationally ...
Barker, Agnes Frances Amelia, b. 1907
A talented artist in multiple media, Agnes Barker went on to become well-known as a television personality who demonstrated craftmaking techniques and activities in the ...
Grant, Gwendolyn, b. 1877
She embraced no radical modernist philosophy; her belief in the virtues of restraint, knowledge, study and, indeed, the moral significance and nobility of art, tempered ...
Highton, Clothilde, b. 1914
Painter, mural painter, modeller, puppet-maker, theatre and diorama artist. Her dioramas were popular and toured extensively in the UK and Australia during the 1950s.
Coopes, Jenny, b. 1945
Contemporary Sydney political cartoonist and illustrator.
Langer, Gertrude, b. 1908
In 1939 Karl and Gertrude Langer came to Australia as refugees from Vienna. Her subsequent career as both a critic for the Courier-Mail, a collector, ...
Leichney, Kathleen, b. 1903
Kathleen Leichney had an extensive career in Queensland in both the visual arts and in music. She painted and exhibited in Brisbane (largely portraits) and ...
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Jackson, Linda, b. 1950
Linda Jackson is an artist, writer, and painter who has worked in the fashion industry. Jackson was born in Melbourne in 1950.
Lynch, Henrietta, b. 1871
Painter, lived at the Royal Bull's Head Inn, Drayton, near Toowoomba, Queensland, Hettie lived there until she married and, apparently, again as a widow (Mrs ...
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Cilento, Margaret, b. 1923
Painter and printmaker. Resident of Queensland, New South Wales, America and Europe. Underhill firmly believes that Cilento should be acknowledged as introducing Abstract Expressionism to ...
Darling, Mary, b. 1913
The ceramics of Mary Darling mark the transition from the teaching of L.J. Harvey to Arthur Hustwit the next prominent private pottery teacher in Brisbane.
Edwards, Mary Cooper, b. 1882
Painter, printmaker and teacher, born in England who came to Australia about 1914 and worked in New South Wales and Queensland. She died in Brisbane ...
Martin, Ida, b. 1906
Ida Martin was probably L.J. Harvey's most accomplished pottery student in the last decade of his life. She also had an extensive career as an ...
Degeus, Maryke, b. 1917
Maryke Degeus was one of the many European migrants whose entry into Australia after World War Two transformed our culture. She was associated with Jon ...