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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 ...
Beaumont-Yates,
China painter and embroiderer who exhibited with the West Australian Society of Arts.
Benham, Loui, b. 1868
Loui Benham was born in 1868. She was embroiderer, designer, teacher, woodcarver, pyrographer and painter. Benham exhibited with the West Australian Society of Arts. She ...
Bland, J.
Mrs J. Bland was Irish-crochet-lace maker.
Card, Mary, b. 1861
Designer and 'crochet pattern designer'. By 1917 Mary Card was a celebrity. In the early to mid 1920s Card moved to a small village outside ...
Chauvel, Lilian, b. 1867
Painter and designer. Chauvel 'discovered and developed the art of "panchrocis", a delicate technique of paintings on silks and satins, of which she made lamp ...
Chisholm, Margaret
Dress designer, married to Harry Chisholm.
Conder, Charles, b. 1868
Painter Charles Conder is best known in Australia for his association with the Heidelberg School and his involvement with the famous 9 x 5 Impressions ...
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Dalgarno, Lucie Gertrude, b. 1874
Lucie Dalgarno was a successful textile designer and trained painter. Her designs utilised Australian floral motifs which were popular at the time.
Dods, Mary Mariam, b. 1867
A woodcarver and embroiderer, Mary Dods actively contributed to the interior designs of her husbands architectural projects. An American by birth she used Australian motifs ...
Evans, Constance
A wood carver and leatherworker, Evans exhibited with the Society of Arts & Crafts of NSW for many years and taught carving at Randwick Hospital. ...
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 ...
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Field, Margaret Ann, b. 1842
A painter and embroiderer who dedicated much of her life to the development of a new form of crocheted lace. An amateur astronomer, she wrote ...
Fletcher, Ann Judith, b. 1886
One of the first female portrait photographers to establish a name in Sydney, Fletcher had her own studio on George Street in the city where ...
George, May, b.
Though she claimed never to have received an art lesson, May Butler George exhibited her miniatures in Melbourne, London and Paris on a regular basis.
Gether, Suzanne, b.
Suzanne Gether actively worked to raise the status of women's work in craft through her teaching and as a founding member of the NSW Society ...
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 ...
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 ...
Lauret, Louise Guerry de
Louise Guerry De Lauret an embroiderer lived near Goulburn (NSW) and worked with Emily Rose Twynam. Their work was awarded a prize at the 1907 ...
Law, R.C.
Embroiderer who exhibited with the West Australian Society of Arts in 1908.