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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 ...
Abbott, Barbara, b. 1928
Sydney-based female sketcher, printmaker and textile artist who passed her final assessment in art school by completing an Aboriginal reference workbook she started in her ...
Abbott Roberts, Mary Margaret, b. 1916
Mary Abbott Roberts, who also exhibited under her maiden name of Mary Abbott, was born in Quirindi in rural New South Wales and studied in ...
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 ...
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Adolphus, Tineke
Adelaide-based fashion designer active during the 1970s. She was part of the Designer Collective a textile design collective formed in Adelaide in 1979.
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 ...
Ainsworth, Kirsten
Fashion designer who collaborated with Cathy Braid to establish the fashion label 'Caravana' in 2004, which involved employing Pakistani women to handcraft fabrics and garments.
Alford, Alice Baily
A Sydney-based craftworker and Watercolourist, Alice Baily Alford's work featured in the 1892 Exhibition of Women's Work in Sydney. Alford also exhibited at the Adelaide ...
Annand, Douglas, b. 1903
One of Australia's best known graphic and poster artists, Douglas Annand also had a distinguished career as a camouflage artist during the Second World War. ...
Arbuz, Mark, b. 1953
Polish-born, Sydney-trained poster and textile artist who used local iconography, notably kookaburras, in his artwork.
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Armstrong, Rosemary, b. 1948
Fashion designer Rosemary Armstrong (b. 1948) launched her label, Tea Rose, in 1981. Tea Rose is known for its ultra-feminine clothes that are made of ...
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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Baker, Nyukana, b. 1943
Pitjantjatjara artist from Ernabella who began painting, designing and weaving in 1963 and producing batik in 1971. Her work is widely exhibited in Australia and ...
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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 ...
Baramba, Mary, b. 1938
Mary Baramba is an Indigenous artist born in 1938. Her language group is Eastern Kunwinjku. Baramba is best known for her large fish collecting baskets ...
Barton, Barbara, b. 1935
Fashion illustrator and lecturer who came to Australia after World War II.
Beaumont-Yates,
China painter and embroiderer who exhibited with the West Australian Society of Arts.
Bell, Robert, b. 1946
Dr Robert Bell AM was Senior Curator, Art and Design, at the National Gallery of Australia.
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Bence, Elizabeth
Elizabeth Bence is a Sydney based fashion designer. A jacket that Bence designed and made at her Gordon boutique c. 1971-72 is held in The ...