Influential mid 20th century sculptor, illustrator and art teacher who taught extensively in Australia in the 1940s and 1950s before settling in Auckland, New Zealand. ...
A contemporary of Grace Crowley and Ralph Balson, Dorrit Black was both a painter and printmaker, particularly of linocuts. An active member of both the ...
Painter, silk-screen printer, potter and art teacher. Resident of South Australia, New South Wales, and England, she was concerned with changing society through social realist ...
An art teacher and lithographer who designed posters for the South Australian tourist bureau in the 1930s and was Director of the South Australian School ...
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 ...
German-born, Adelaide-based painter. Probably more than any other artist, Hans Heysen changed the way Australia saw the gum tree, as for many, many years his ...
Jacqueline Hick is a painter. She has had a long and distinguished career in South Australia. Hick won many awards for her painting, principally the ...
Kohlhagen worked in watercolour, tempera and oil on canvas/board, linocut prints and pottery; her subject matter included landscapes, still-lifes and, especially, genre studies.
Female artist who painted, drew, photographed and printed. She illustrated children's books and designed board games. She was well connected to artists in Melbourne during ...
John Olsen's exuberant paintings, which were first exhibited in Sydney in the 1950s, are often celebrations of Sydney, Majorca, marine life, good food and sunshine. ...
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 ...
Commercial gallery director, Gayfield Shaw was one of the most prominent members of the Sydney art scene during the early boom period in Australian visual ...
David Strachan, the son of the Lindsay family's doctor, studied in London and Paris before attending the George Bell School in Melbourne. He is most ...
Designer of many colour lithographic posters between the 1930s and the 1950s, commissioned by the Australian National Travel Association, Victorian Railways, Queensland Government Tourist Bureau, ...