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 ...
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 ...
Bayliss pioneered use of art in psychology for treating children with behavioural problems. She also raised money for Alzheimer's research via her artwork.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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' ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...