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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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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 ...
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 ...
Bayliss, Joan Janet, b. 1925
Bayliss pioneered use of art in psychology for treating children with behavioural problems. She also raised money for Alzheimer's research via her artwork.
Bennett, Dorothy, b. 1923
Dorothy Bennett was introduced to Aboriginal art when she was a medical secretary accompanying Dr Stuart Scougall on an excursion to the Northern Territory. She ...
Blair Barber, Elizabeth, b. 1909
Elizabeth Blair Barber was a painter who exhibited with the Perth Society of Artists, the Contemporary Art Society, the Western Australian Women's Society of Fine ...
Borlase, Nancy Wilmot, b. 1914
New Zealand-born Nancy Wilmot Borlase arrived in Sydney in 1937, studying sculpture under Lyndon Dadswell under space restrictions in her small bed-sit forced a change ...
Bruce, Aadje , b. 1934
Churcher, Betty, b. 1931
Betty Churcher, who was the first woman to head both a state and national art gallery, had an extraordinary career in arts education and administration ...
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Cilento, Margaret, b. 1923
Painter and printmaker. Resident of Queensland, New South Wales, America and Europe. Underhill firmly believes that Cilento should be acknowledged as introducing Abstract Expressionism to ...
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Cotton, Olive, b. 1911
Olive Cotton's black and white photographs are characterised by their use of light to create ambiguity. For most of her life she was better known ...
Cummings, Elisabeth, b. 1934
Painter, born in Brisbane, Qld. Resident of Sydney, NSW. After losing her studio in the 1994 bushfires, Cummings used the insurance money to build a ...
Dredge, Margaret, b. 1928
Born in 1928, Margaret Dredge did not have the opportunity to study art until the mid 1950s when she started studying painting with Inez Hutchinson. ...
Erickson, Frederica Lucy, b. 1908
Wildflower painter, botanical illustrator, author, naturalist and teacher whose many honours included the Order of Australia (Gen Div.) for service to the arts and an ...
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Gazzard, Marea, b. 1928
Marea Gazzard was a sculptor in clay and bronze. After training in ceramics, she studied sculpture with Lyndon Dadswell and had her first solo exhibition ...
Goldfinch, Nancy, b. 1911
Nancy's uncle encouraged her to paint at an early age, providing her with brushes and paints. She painted throughout her life and travelled abroad, eventually ...
Goodale, Jane, b. 1926
Anthropologist Goodale spent many years studying and photographing the native people of Oceania, especially the Tiwi people of Northern Australia.
Hall, Nancy Adrah, b. 1900
Sydney based painter, craftworker, designer and editor. In July 1924 she published the first issue of the magazine Undergrowth, which recognised many female artists of ...
Hallandal, Pam, b. 1929
Her well known work is primarily works on paper, mainly drawing. She has exhibited in major institutions in Australia including the Art Gallery of New ...
Hammond, Mary, b. 1928
A painter, pastellist and sketcher, in 1992 the Age reported Hammond as saying, "I am not interested in painting decorative pictures. I always want to ...