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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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Abbott, Harold, b. 1906
An official war artist during the Second World War, Harold Abbott was an accomplished portraitist who had studied at the Royal Academy of Art 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 ...
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 ...
Allen, Joyce L. McC, b. 1916
Brisbane born painter and printmaker and a student of Thea Proctor and Joy Ewart. Allen was a regular exhibitor with the Print Council of Australia ...
Allen, John (Denis John Wigram), b. 1926
John Allen was a notable modernist architect in Sydney from the mid 1950s through the 1980s. He is best known as one of the two ...
Amos, Hart, b. 1916
Trained in painting and drawing at the East Sydney Technical College, Amos is better known for his extensive body of illustrating and cartooning work. A ...
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Andrews, Gordon Arthur, b. 1914
Gordon Andrews was one of Australia's prominent mid-20th century multi-disciplinary designers. While best known for designing Australia's first decimal currency notes (1966), his international career ...
Annand, Douglas, b. 1903
One of Australia's best known graphic and poster artists, Douglas Annand also had a distinguished career as a camouflage artist during the Second World War. ...
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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 ...
Armstrong, Mick, b. 1903
Prolific mid twentieth century war and political cartoonist and designer. Armstrong contributed to a number of publications including the Argus, the Sydney Sun, Smith's Weekly, ...
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Aspden, David, b. 1935
The largely self-taught painter, David Aspden, established his reputation in the 1960s by painting lyrically beautiful abstracts. In the context of the time, they were ...
Atchison, Michael, b. 1933
Late 20th century Adelaide cartoonist and children's book illustrator. Atchinson was a regular contributor to Punch magazine and from 1968 he worked as the daily ...
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 ...
Audette, Yvonne, b. 1930
An abstract expressionist painter and trained pianist, Audette's work was influenced both by music and the years she spent in New York in the 1950s ...
Baker, Allan, b. 1921
Painter, curator, tutor and former window dresser. Baker became Deputy Director of the Art Gallery of Western Australia in 1961. He won numerous prizes.
Barsony, George, b. 1917
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Bass, Tom, b. 1916
Bass was an Australian public sculptor and teacher with a career spanning over 60 years. Born in 1916, Bass studied drawing at Dattilo Rubbo's atelier ...
Bastin, Henri, b. 1896
Bastin emerged in the 1950s as a key figure in Australian primitive/naive art.
Batten, Theo, b. 1918
Late 20th century Sydney comic strip artist and illustrator and the creator of the 'Lucky Cat' strip that appeared in the Sun Herald in the ...