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Bott, Alice, b. 1879
Alice Bott was a prominent member of the Arts and Crafts Movement in Queensland, a student of L.J. Harvey and a pottery instructor.
Dangar, Annie Garvin, b. 1885
A talented and well recognised modernist ceramic artist, Anne Dangar spent most of her artistic life at the Moly-Sabata artists' colony, near Ardêche in southern ...
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Englund, Ivan, b. 1915
Ivan Englund was one of the founders of the Potters' Society of New South Wales in 1956. He taught at the Wollongong and East Sydney ...
Barker, John, b. 1867
Painter and potter who exhibited with the South Devon Arts Society, British Watercolour Society, West Australian Society of Arts and Perth Society of Artists.
Lang, Jean Euphemia, b. 1912
Jean Euphemia Lang was born in 1912. She was an illustrator, painter, china painter, potter, teacher and historian. In 1991 she was awarded Citizen of ...
Lutz, Agnes Gray, b. 1881
Agnes Gray Lutz was a potter, china painter, and painter based in Western Australia.
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Lewers, Margo, b. 1908
Margo Lewers was primarily a painter and an admirer of the Bauhaus movement which she experienced during travels in Germany in 1934. She was initially ...
Boyd, Mary, b. 1926
A member of the well-known artistic Boyd family, Boyd started to paint and pot from an early age and despite an ongoing arts practice that ...
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Boyd, Merric, b. 1888
Merric Boyd's organic decorative ceramics led him to be credited as the father of studio pottery in Australia. He was also a dominant figure in ...
Elliott, Mona, b. 1872
Although Mona Elliott developed her interest in pottery and painting late in life, she made a significant contribution to art in both Brisbane and Toowoomba, ...
Medworth, Muriel, b. 1903
Watercolour painter, interior decorator, textile and fashion designer, ceramicist and teacher, pursued her career in London and Australia.
Murphy, Augusta 'Dot', b. 1886
Chinapainting was a popular craft in southern Australia from the 1920s and paralleled developments in the Arts and Crafts Movement. Dot Murphy is one of ...
Pedersen, Ella Lilian, b. 1898
Ella Lilian Pedersen was a painter, illuminator, illustrator, weaver, potter, leather-worker, embroiderer, jeweller and enameller. In 1941, with Mona Elliott, she founded the Half Dozen ...
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Perceval, John, b. 1923
John Perceval had little formal training as an artist, but after he fell ill with polio at the age of 15 he concentrated on painting ...
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Preston, Margaret, b. 1875
Margaret Preston specialised in still life subjects, seeking to reinvent the genre, with inspiration from Aboriginal art and Australian native flowers, but she also made ...
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Pyke, Guelda Esther Leah, b. 1905
Australian ceramist, jewellery and fashion designer who, after visits to Bali and training with George Bell, took up painting in the 1950s and worked in ...
O'Reilly, Maud, b. 1886
Maud O'Reilly was one of L.J. Harvey's students who furthered her skills by studying wheelthrowing and glazing when she visited London in 1925. She made ...
Sadlo, Alexander, b. 1927
Alexander Sadlo is a modernist painter, ceramist, enameller and jeweller who fled from the Communist regime in post-war Czechoslovakia, migrating to Australia and settling in ...
Shaw, Muriel, b. 1911
Painter and printmaker known by her nickname 'Mim'. A member of the Half Dozen Group of Artists in Brisbane, Shaw travelled extensively overseas and taught ...
Grey-Smith, Guy Edward, b.
Painter and potter who was born in Wagin, WA. He won many prizes between 1955 and 1978.