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 ...
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 ...
Mid 20th century cartoonist and illustrator, born in Brisbane. She moved to England as a young woman where she studied art under Stephen Spurrier at ...
Portrait and figure painter who studied in Paris and in Melbourne at the National Gallery School under Frederick McCubbin. Baker was still exhibiting at the ...
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 ...
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 ...
Originally from Adelaide and a student and friend of Margaret Preston, Bessie Davidson was a very successful artist. She spent the majority of her life ...
Painter, silk-screen printer, potter and art teacher. Resident of South Australia, New South Wales, and England, she was concerned with changing society through social realist ...
Dorothy Bennett was introduced to Aboriginal art when she was a medical secretary accompanying Dr Stuart Scougall on an excursion to the Northern Territory. She ...