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Abbott Roberts, Mary Margaret, b. 1916
Mary Abbott Roberts, who also exhibited under her maiden name of Mary Abbott, was born in Quirindi in rural New South Wales and studied in ...
Curtis, Robert Emerson, b. 1898
Mid 20th century illustrator and artist. In 1922 Curtis travelled to the USA with his great friend, the pioneer filmmaker, Charles Chauvel. There he developed ...
Robison, Oenwen Joan, b. 1924
Artist who was a student of Flora Landells and graduate and teacher at the Perth Technical School.
McLay, Roger, b. 1922
Roger McLay began working in industrial design after 1947. McLay's most celebrated work, the "Kone" chair, was developed and sold from 1948. From the mid-1950s ...
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Lambert, Ron, b. 1923
Designer, did a poster, The Anglers' Paradise: Great Barrier Reef (NLA), for the Queensland Government Tourist Bureau in the 1950s.
Richardson, Maude Rose, b. 1879
Maude Rose Richardson was born in 1879. With her friends Alma Pericles and Mrs W. E. Stephenson, she formed the West Australian Women Painters and ...
Rosenstengel, Edmund, b. 1887
Rosenstengel is the principal of Rosenstengel Brisbane, a designer and maker of domestic furniture. He began his career at Rosenstengel & Kleimeyer, Toowoomba QLD, later ...
Burtenshaw, Rowland, b. 1899
Designer who also taught silver-smithing and metalwork in the new post-war courses at Fremantle Technical School.
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Oldham, John Bramston Russell, b. 1907
Oldham worked as an architect, artist, interior designer and landscape architect. Working for Stephenson & Turner in NSW, he later focussed on landscape architecture, developing ...
Atyeo, Sam, b. 1910
In addition to a career in painting after training at the National Gallery School, Melbourne, Atyeo designed interiors, murals, designed and painted furniture for commercial ...
Sandor, Eva, b. 1924
Wood engraver and graphic artist, Sandor came to Sydney having been a prisoner of war in Indonesia. She had a wood engraving hung in the ...
Schremmer, Paul, b. 1929
Schremmer began his career designing white goods. In 1965, he was the President of the Society of Industrial Designers of Australia (SIDA). He established his ...
Scorfield, Edward Scafe, b. 1882
Mid 20th century Sydney Bulletin cartoonist, poster designer and etcher. Before migrating to Australia in 1925 Scorfield played rugby for England and served in the ...
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Sellheim, Gert Hugo Emmanuel, b. 1901
Sellheim was a graphic artist and industrial designer. He won the Sulman Prize in 1939 and was one of the first poster artists to work ...
Shaw, Rod, b. 1915
Rod Shaw was a dominant figure in the left wing Studio of Realist Art in the 1950s while also being half of the progressive publisher, ...
Shaw, Marina Philomena, b. 1903
Painter, china painter, ceramic sculptor and designer who in the1940s won a scholarship to the Slade School of Art but was unable to take it ...
Shore, Arnold, b. 1897
Influential mid 20th century Melbourne modernist painter, teacher, critic and cartoonist. Shore began his career designing stained glass. In the 1920s he consistently supported Post-Impressionist ...
Philpot, Ernest Sidney, b. 1906
Painter, signwriter, poster artist and muralist who exhibited internationally and had a long association with art societies in Victoria and Western Australia.
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Skate, Ronald Clayton, b. 1913
Designer Ronald Clayton Skate made colour lithographic posters for Australian National Airways (ANA).