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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, Ernest Edwin, b. 1889
Ernest Edwin Abbott (1889-1973), English-born printmaker, painter and art teacher, based mainly in Melbourne, Victoria.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Alsop, Edith Annie Mary, b. 1871
Painter, illustrator and printmaker who studied at the Central School of Arts in London and under André Lhôte in Paris. Despite her formal fine art ...
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. ...
Armfield, David, b. 1923
Late 20th century Melbourne painter, illustrator and printmaker. This biography concentrates on his black and white work.
Bainbridge, John, b. 1919
Illustrator who worked in Australia during WWII. Bainbridge's work includes linocut covers for the Melbourne publication 'New Theatre Review' in the early 1940s. Later worked ...
Baldwinson, Arthur N., b. 1908
Baldwinson was a regional modernist architect. He was a founder member of Modern Architecture Research Society (MARS), Sydney, Australia’s first industrial design organization, the “Design ...
Beadle, Paul, b. 1917
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. ...
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 ...
Bell, George, b. 1878
Painter, teacher and art critic, George Bell spent a number of years in Europe studying, painting and working as an official war artist from 1918 ...
Bell, George Frederick Henry, b. 1878
The artist George Bell is best known for his influential role as a teacher in Melbourne and his promotion of modernism in Australia.
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 ...
Birmingham, Karna Marie, b. 1900
Karna Marie Birmingham was an illustrator of children's books and arguably may have been more widely acknowledged if she had not contracted an eye disease ...
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Black, Dorrit, b. 1891
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 ...
Blackburn, Vera, b. 1911
Printmaker Vera Blackburn was the daughter of artistically minded parents who encouraged her practice through lessons with Thea Proctor. World War Two, marriage and family ...
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Blackman, Charles, b. 1928
The Antipodean artist Charles Blackman was best known for his paintings of schoolgirls and the whimsy of Alice in Wonderland. He was a part of ...
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Boyd, Arthur, b. 1920
A member of the gifted Boyd family, and grandson of his namesake, the painter Arthur Merric Boyd, Arthur first attended night classes at Melbourne's National ...