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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 ...
Bruce, Aadje , b. 1934
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.
Fitzpatrick, Dawn, b. 1922
Fitzpatrick is a textile artist, first exhibiting in Sydney in 1975. She also designs and makes theatre costumes.
Claringbold, John, b. 1928
Fashion designer and couturier based in Melbourne and Darlington Point, New South Wales. Life partner and collaborator of Ross Weymouth.
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 ...
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McDiarmid, David, b. 1952
McDiarmid worked in a wide array of media and styles in his artmaking. After 1975, all his work focussed on gay experience, and he is ...
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Mora, Mirka Madeleine, b. 1928
Mirka Mora’s joyeous experimental art gave a bohemian flavour to Melbourne life, both with her former husband, the resistance fighter and restaurateur Georges, and then ...
Fullarton, Nancy Edith, b. 1913
Mid 20th century Sydney and London painter, children's book illustrator, comic strip artist and ballet costume designer. Creator of Frisky the Rabbit.
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Benporath, Norma, b. 1900
O'Brien, Kate, b. 1914
Kathleen O'Brien was an illustrator and fashion artist. She studied at Brisbane Technical College and also with J.S. Watkins for three years. O'Brien's comic strip ...
Ashworth, Olive, b. 1915
Commercial artist, textile designer and photographer. Ashworth is best known for her textile designs that were based on sketches and photographs of the Great Barrier ...
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Acton, Prue, b. 1943
Prue Acton is a women’s wear designer. She trained at RMIT beginning in 1958. She established a Melbourne showroom in 1963 later moving to the ...
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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 ...
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 ...
Field, Florence Roma, b. 1891
An accomplished self-taught embroiderer, Field experimented with different stitches and materials and also mastered traditional European embroidery skills. A lifelong member of the Embroiderers Guild ...
Grey-Smith, Helen Dorothy, b.
Successful Western Australian textile artist, designer and painter (and husband of artist Guy Grey-Smith) whose clients included the Perth Council Chambers and the Reserve Bank ...
Thorpe, Alice, b. 1914
Weaver, was born in the Lake Boga district of Victoria in 1914.
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Tully, Peter, b. 1947
Artist and gay activist, was included in the Tin Sheds exhibition, "Dead Gay Artists", in 2002.