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1 K., D. E. Current D.E.K. initialled a pencil sketch titled 'Elladale Cottage, Appin', c.1855 that is now held in Rachel Henning's papers at the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales.
1 K., M. Current M.K. is known for a single watercolour, 'View of New South Wales', dated 1810 which is held in the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney.
1 Kabutaulaka, Tarcisius Tara Current Contemporary Solomon Islands academic who included cartoon work in a presentation while studying in Canberra. Kabutaulaka is a history/politics lecturer at the University of the South Pacific.
1 Kahan, Louis Current Louis Kahan was a versatile, multi-talented artist and designer. He served in the French Foreign Legion and worked as a tailor in Paris where he associated with Josephine Baker and Matisse. He settled in Australia in 1947 and was best known as a sketcher and painter, winning the Archibald with a portrait of Patrick White in 1962.
1 Kahler, Karl Current Karl Kahler was a painter and illustrator who completed a series of three Melbourne Cup paintings including 'Flemington Lawn on Cup Day' which was described by the Bulletin in 1889 as 'a veritable page in the history of Australia'.
1 Kaiser, Ulf Current Contemporary Sydney caricaturist, painter and illustrator. Kaiser was a member of the Australian Black and White Artists Club and in 2002 he participated in the NSW National Trust Heritage Festival in the Blue Mountains, donating a painting and several caricatures of well-known early explorers Wentworth, Blaxland and Lawson.
1 Kane, Henry Plow Current Kane was a schoolmaster and clergyman. He is responsible for the only known illustration of the original St Peter's Church of England at St Leonard's, Tasmania dated c.1846/47.
1 Kantawarra, Lionel Current He lived at Haasts Bluff in the mid 1980s and painted intermittently for Papunya Tula Artists (NT).
1 Kantilla, Kitty Current Tiwi sculptor and painter, Yimpinari, Melville Island, began painting barks when her former art of carving in ironwood had become too physically demanding, then moved to painting in acrylic on canvas.
1 Kantor, Frants Current Contemporary Sydney caricaturist, illustrator and commercial artist who created a scandal when he drew a caricature of the newsreader Anne Fullwood naked for Australian Penthouse in May 1993.
1 Kaptein, Hank Current Contemporary cartoonist and a member of the Australian Black and White Artists Club. The 1992-1995 Inkspot collection at the Mitchell Library contains Kaptein's original 'London Times'.
1 Karpany-Jackson, Lana Current Painter who has shown in the 2006 and 2008 'Our Mob' exhibitions at the Adelaide Festival Centre.
1 Katauskas, Fiona Current Contemporary Melbourne and Sydney cartoonist and illustrator. Before becoming a full-time cartoonist in 1997, Katauskas travelled the world working for aid organisations. She has been published widely, but has also done illustrations for many non-governmental organisations, including Women with Disabilities (Australia), International Women's Development Agency and Community Aid Abroad.
1 Kater, Eliza Charlotte Current Eliza Kater emigrated to Australia with her family in 1940 at the age of 20. She married later that year and with her husband Henry Kater ran a property and cloth mill at Caleula, NSW. Two of her paintings are known to have survived.
1 Katsouranis, Michelle Current Contemporary cartoonist and illustrator, Katsouranis drew a series illustrations for The Weekend Australian in 1999 to accompany an article on the Australian Republic referendum.
1 Kay, O. Current Mid 20th century cartoonist who signed or monogrammed various cartoons in Australia: National Journal and Australia Week-end Book with the initials 'OK'
1 Kay, Pamela Current Bulletin cartoonist working in the 1950's. There is some speculation Kay might be the Australia: National Journal cartoonist O. Kay.
1 Kay, William Porden Current Invited to the position of colonial architect by his uncle, the governor of Tasmania, William Porden Kay designed many of the public buildings in Hobart. He was also an accomplished watercolourist and sketcher, producing many landscape paintings.
1 Keartland, George Arthur Current George Arthur Keartland was a professional photographer and printer who worked for the Melbourne Age in the 1870s.
1 Keen, Warwick Current Warwick Keen is a founding member of Gamilarart in Tamworth, NSW. His works of acrylic, sawdust, foam core and PVA on board are contemporary interpretations of Dendroglyph, which are carved tree designs of eastern NSW and some parts of Queensland.

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