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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 ...
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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 ...
Bruce, Aadje , b. 1934
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 ...
Church, Ann, b. 1929
Theatrical designer, best known for her designs for the Victorian Ballet Guild.
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 ...
Clarke, Anne, b. 1947
Painter and graphic artist, works in Sydney, New South Wales.
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 ...
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 ...
Danciger, Alice, b. 1914
A painter, theatre and fabric designer who worked with some of the most significant modernist artists in Australia.
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Davidson, Bessie, b. 1879
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 ...
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.
Chapman, Dora Cecil, b. 1911
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 ...
Bennett, Dorothy, b. 1923
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 ...
Coleman, Dorothy, b. 1899
Photographer and painter. She was Brisbane's leading society photographer between 1935 and 1960.
Downing, Desmonde, b. 1920
A set and costume designer, actor and singer, working in Sydney and Melbourne during the 1950s and the 1960s.
Coghlan, Elaine E., b. 1897
Painter and art teacher. Resident of Sydney, New South Wales, early in her career Coghlan concentrated on oil paintings but later turned to watercolours as ...
Ely, Bonita, b. 1946
Bonita Ely established her reputation as an environmental artist in the early 1970s through her work on the Murray Darling rivers. She has a diverse ...
Blumann, Elise, b. 1897
A student at the Berlin Academy of Art under German Impressionist Max Liebermann, Blumann fled Nazi Germany in 1938, she and her husband settling in ...
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 ...