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Backhouse, James, b. 1794
Only in Australia for six years, Backhouse kept extensive records of his experiences, which were then posthumously published in London. His observations have proven to ...
Baily, John, b. 1927
John Baily was Director of the Art Gallery of South Australia during the Dunstan years. Nationally he endeared himself to artists and curators for his ...
Bastin, Henri, b. 1896
Bastin emerged in the 1950s as a key figure in Australian primitive/naive art.
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.
Benson, Eva Ellenor, b. 1875
Eva Ellenor Benson was a talented sculptor who trained in Perth and London where she received regular recognition through awards and commissions. Returning to Australia ...
Brook, Donald, b. 1927
The. Yorkshire born Donald Brook first established a reputation as a sculptor, but his most significant impact on Australian art was as the intellectually rigorous ...
Butler, Roma Nyutjangka, b. 1959
Pitjantjara artist who lives in Irrunytju, and whose paintings consist of interpretations of tjukurpa narratives of importance to Irrunytju people, with a particular focus on ...
Carabetta, Nikki, b. 1964
Adelaide-based Aboriginal artist with Yammagi and Brinkin heritage whose paintings are a means to share and maintain her culture and reflect upon her personal journey, ...
Craig, Janie, b. 1876
Painter who was both a working member and a committee member of the West Australia Society of Arts in the early 1900s.
Croft, Brenda L, b. 1964
Brenda L Croft has had dual careers as both a photographer and curator. She was one of the founders of Boomalli in Redfern, and first ...
Darbyshire, Beatrice Dean, b. 1901
A talented artist, Beatrice Darbyshire exhibited in England and Perth throughout the 1920s and 1930s.
Downes, Robert Henry Burnside, b. 1861
Robert Henry Burnside Downes was born in 1861. He was an engineer, architect and surveyor who exhibited with the West Australian Society of Arts in ...
Drake-Brockman, Geoffrey, b. 1964
Geoffrey Drake Brockman is a sculptural and installation artist who has incorporated the use of robotics and lasers into his work.
Dunnett Jnr, Mitch, b. 1964
South Australian painter who had a residency in the Flinders University Art Museum in the 1980s and was included in Queensland Art Gallery's 'Balance 1990' ...
Dureya, Sanford, b. 1820
Sanford Dureya was a photographer. He was born in New York in the 1820s and worked in Melbourne from 1852-55 with his elder brother.
Dutkiewicz, Wladyslaw, b. 1918
Dutkiewicz was an expressionist, constructivist, abstract and semi-abstract painter and occasional sculptor who was also involved in theatrical design, directing and acting. Dutkiewicz ran theatre ...
Essam, Arthur, b. 1850
Painter and illustrator, drover, surveyor and explorer who arrived in Victoria in 1870.
Forbes-Smith, Ira Eleanor Elizabeth, b. 1920
Designer of textiles, painter, china painter, leatherworker and art teacher. Forbes-Smith showed regularly with the Western Australian Women Painters and Applied Arts Society. In the ...
Hack, Wilton, b. 1843
Painter, art teacher, pastoralist and utopian socialist, Hack taught drawing in Adelaide from 1868 to 1873. He travelled widely and a surviving sketchbook records foreign ...
Haddon, Robert J., b.
Architect and water- colourist. He is claimed to be a co-founder with T. S. Henry of the West Australian Society of Arts.