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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 ...
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Andrew, Florence
An apprentice dressmaker from Hurstville, New South Wales. Andrews designed and made a collection of ties between 1911–12.
Bamberger, Molly
Bamberger worked across two seemingly unrelated media - leatherworking and photography. Despite spending two years travelling in Europe in 1935-26, she exhibited regularly from 1910 ...
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 ...
Benison, Percy, b. 1881
Early 20th century Sydney cartoonist, comic book artist, illustrator and costume designer. Benison contributed to a number of publications including the Comic Australian, Home and ...
Braunsdorf, G.
Exhibited with the West Australian Society of Arts in 1910.
Broomhall,
Embroiderer and woodcarver who exhibited in the West Australian Society of Arts exhibition in 1912.
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 ...
Cavanagh, Lily Gladys, b. 1894
Embroiderer, designer and woodcarver who exhibited with the West Australian Society of Arts in 1911.
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 ...
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Craven, Mary
Designer who began working with Berlei Hestia Ltd. in 1915.
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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 ...
Fitzer, Eileen, b. 1902
Embroiderer and longtime Northern Territory resident, she embroidered signature cloths at Pine Creek in the early part of the 20th century and was represented at ...
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 ...