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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 ...
Abson, Helen
Helen Abson studied at Melbourne University, worked as a textile designer. Her work in summarised in Jenny de Nijs. Women as Designers in Australia, RMIT ...
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Acton, Prue, b. 1943
Prue Acton is a women’s wear designer. She trained at RMIT beginning in 1958. She established a Melbourne showroom in 1963 later moving to the ...
Afford, Thelma, b. 1908
Costume designer, performer, actor and fashion journalist with a practice from Broken Hill, Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne. She also designed costumes for early Australian TV ...
Albanis, Jenni, b.
Jenni Albanis was a Melbourne quilt maker who was active in the 1980s. The daughter of a dress-maker, Albanis was part of the Australian Quilter’s ...
Ashworth, Olive, b. 1915
Commercial artist, textile designer and photographer. Ashworth is best known for her textile designs that were based on sketches and photographs of the Great Barrier ...
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Bannister, Jenny, b. 1954
Jenny Bannister is a Melbourne fashion designer most active in the 1970s and 1980s. Inspired by the punk movement, Bannister designed clothes under the label ...
Bundle, Yaraan
Victorian Indigenous artist and dancer of Kirrae Wurrong/Gunditjmara heritage.
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Burke, Frances, b. 1907
Burke founded screen-printing business, Burway Prints, Melbourne 1937. Established and managed "New Design" retail outlet, founder member Society of Designers for Industry. Her textile designs ...
Butters, Matilda
Costume designer. As the wife of would-be politician James Stewart Butters she managed a short but exciting career as spouse--and vote-getter by gaining public attention ...
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 ...
Chapman, Georgia
Melbourne-based fashion designer who co-founded the label 'Vixen Australia' in 1992.
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Christou, Roy
Claringbold, John, b. 1928
Fashion designer and couturier based in Melbourne and Darlington Point, New South Wales. Life partner and collaborator of Ross Weymouth.
Clifton, Kate
Painter and embroiderer. Her husband, Charles Leslie Worsley Clifton, was the first manager of the Fremantle branch of the Western Australian Bank.
Conder, Charles, b. 1868
Painter Charles Conder is best known in Australia for his association with the Heidelberg School and his involvement with the famous 9 x 5 Impressions ...
Corbett, John, b. 1946
Cousland, Alison, b. 1946
Couzens, Vicki, b. 1960
Kirrae Wurrong/Gunditjmara artist based in Warrnambool in western Victoria whose work encompasses painting, installation, mixed media, sculpture, printmaking and public art. Couzens is most well ...
Couzens, Debra
Kirrae Wurrong/ Gunditjmara weaver and possum skin cloak maker from southwestern Victoria.