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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 ...
Fitzpatrick, Dawn, b. 1922
Fitzpatrick is a textile artist, first exhibiting in Sydney in 1975. She also designs and makes theatre costumes.
Galley, Cynthia Dowler, b. 1932
Contemporary Adelaide cartoonist, painter and humorous writer, Gallery wrote and illustrated "Wattle Scrub and Sandhill Days", a narrative in comic verse about childhood days.
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Ernabella Arts Inc.
One of Australia's oldest Aboriginal art centres. It began as an arts workshop established on the Ernabella Aboriginal Mission in South Australia in 1948. Since ...
I'Anson, Jessie Cowley, b. 1889
Daughter of Jessie Rebecca Cowley, was taught needlework and lacemaking from a very young age. Along with her mother and sister, helped support the family ...
Kennedy, Christina, b. 1827
Christina Kennedy lived and worked in South Australia where she and her family were all involved in craft production. Her 'Tripod Table' (c.1880), made of ...
Giles, Kerry, b. 1959
Giles worked as an artist, activist and curator. She has many accolades to her name, including the South Australian Aboriginal Artist of the Year Award ...
Lawrence, Kay, b. 1947
One of Australia’s pre-eminent tapestry and textile artists, Kay Lawrence was named a Member of the Order of Australia in 1989 for her embroidery in ...
Baker, Nyukana, b. 1943
Pitjantjatjara artist from Ernabella who began painting, designing and weaving in 1963 and producing batik in 1971. Her work is widely exhibited in Australia and ...
Harris, Mary Packer, b. 1891
Painter, printmaker, designer and embroiderer, she also wrote and published books on art and Quaker philosophy. She taught at the South Australian School of Arts ...
Mack, Maggie Pinkie, b. 1858
Weaver, singer and historian, collaborated with Ron and Catherine Berndt in their work of recording the old ways of the Yaraldi in 'A World That ...
I'Anson, Jessie Rebecca, b. 1862
Accomplished South Australian lacemaker and needlewoman. I'Anson was widowed at 36, and used her skills to support herself and her family for the remainder of ...
Rischbieth, Bessie Mabel, b. 1874
An early activist for womens' rights, a theosophist and life long feminist, Bessie Mabel Rischbieth was a well known figure in Perth. Her early training ...
Lambert, Rose, b. 1885
Rose Lambert was a skilled practitioner of the art of china-painting in South Australia in 1927-33 but it was only one of the many craft ...