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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 ...
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 ...
Afford, Thelma, b. 1908
Costume designer, performer, actor and fashion journalist with a practice from Broken Hill, Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne. She also designed costumes for early Australian TV ...
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Agar, Bernice, b. 1885
Glamorous and highly accomplished photographer best known for her images of Sydney socialites and brides. Such was her skill that when she retired upon marriage ...
Ainsworth, Ruth Drummond, b. 1900
A painter, printmaker, potter, weaver and art teacher. Ainsworth travelled to Europe in the 1920s where she was inspired by the influences of cubism, surrealism ...
Albury, Winn, b. 1896
Twentieth century female watercolourist who worked as a commercial in Sydney and Sacremento, California. Work found amongst her estate included a number of designs for ...
Allan, Ailsa, b. 1898
Australian born painter and printmaker, Allan studied with Thea Proctor and Adelaide Perry at Julian Ashton's Sydney Art School in the late 1920s. Proctor would ...
Anderson, Ethel, b. 1883
A well-travelled mural painter and writer, Ethel Anderson was considered one the most important supporters of modern art and its painters in the early part ...
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Appleton, Jean, b. 1911
Appleton was a painter and craftworker who studied at East Sydney Technical College and at the Westminster School, London. After seeing French sculptor Maillol's work ...
Archer, Florence, b. 1888
Florence Archer was one of the most accomplished potters of the second generation of the Harvey School. She studied pottery under Alice Bott for a ...
Arnold, Marjorie Graham, b. 1884
Marjorie Graham Arnold was a painter and printmaker. An active member of the arts community, she was a founding member of the Society of Women ...
Arnott, Margaret, b. 1890
A painter, illustrator, printmaker and writer, Margaret Arnott visited England frequently and exhibited with the Younger Group of Australian Artists in Sydney. Her granddaughter is ...
Atkinson, Ethel, b. 1887
Potter, leather worker, china painter and designer. Atkinson set up the 'Ceramic Art Studio' with business partner Ada Newman. A regular exhibitor with the Arts ...
Bamberger, Molly
Bamberger worked across two seemingly unrelated media - leatherworking and photography. Despite spending two years travelling in Europe in 1935-26, she exhibited regularly from 1910 ...
Barker, Agnes Frances Amelia, b. 1907
A talented artist in multiple media, Agnes Barker went on to become well-known as a television personality who demonstrated craftmaking techniques and activities in the ...
Barling, M., b. 1885
Miss Barling exhibited at the Royal Art Society in 1908 and 1909. There is some speculation that she might otherwise be known as the printmaker ...
Beatty, Margaret Checkley, b. 1916
Margaret Checkley Beatty was a printmaker, painter and commercial artist who attended Julian Ashton's Sydney Art School with Adelaide Perry from 1933. Her linocut of ...
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Bellette, Jean Mary, b. 1909
Respected painter and illustrator of the 1940s and '50s and a two-time winner of the Sulman Prize.
Bennett, Portia Mary, b. 1898
Portia Bennett trained at the Royal Art Society School under Dattilo Rubbo and then at the Julian Ashton Art school where she was friendly with ...
Berndt, Eileen Constance Matilda, b. 1899
Painter and printmaker, Berndt studied variously under Grace Crowley, Anne Dangar, Dorrit Black and Adelaide Perry before relocating to London to study at the Central ...