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List biographies
| Version | Name | Status | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yam, Margaret | Current | Kunjen weaver, Margaret Yam is from the Kowanyama region on the west coast of Cape York Peninsula. Her large open-woven rectangular bags known as "Umbins" are made from the leaves of cabbage palms and natural dyes and were traditionally used for collecting and processing yams, corms, seeds and fruits. |
| 1 | Yam, Minor | Current | Minor Yam is from the Kowanyama region on the west coast of Cape York Peninsula. She works with Margaret Yam creating large open-woven rectangular bags, examples of which are in the collection of the Campbelltown Arts Centre. |
| 1 | Yapa, George Tjangala | Current | George Yapa's paintings depict an Eagle Hawk Dreaming, and Tingari stories from his traditional country around Kirrpinga and Kiwirrkura. He first painted for Papunya Tula Artists in the late 1970s. |
| 1 | Yates, John | Current | John Yates was a professional photographer who had studios in George Street, Old South Head Road, Devonshire Place and King Street in Sydney throughout the 1860s and 1870s. |
| 1 | Yeatman, Michelle | Current | Michelle Yeatman from Yarrabah, North Queensland is a member of the Yarrabah Guyala Pottery Studio situated at Yarrabah Aboriginal Community. Her hand built pots were featured in the 2001 exhibition "Gatherings, Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland, Australia". |
| 1 | Yeatman, Philomena | Current | Philomena Yeatman is a traditional weaver of baskets but began her artistic career working in screenprinting and jewellery making. She weaves her baskets from natural materials such as the leaves from pandanas and cabbage palms. |
| 1 | Yeomans, T. R. | Current | Yeomans was a portraitist who worked in the Bathurst region of New South Wales during the mid-nineteenth century. |
| 1 | Young, Beryl | Current | Young was an associate artist of the Art Training Institute, Melbourne. |
| 1 | Young, Blamire | Current | Painter, designer, writer and mathematics teacher. An article in 'Art and Australia' in 1921 described Young as being '6' 3" high, aesthetic, virile, uniting the Cambridge manner with the Bohemian Spirit (and with) a picturesque and paradoxical personality'. |
| 1 | Young, Edward | Current | Worked as a surgeon on board the 'Roxburgh Castle' in 1861. Young kept a diary of the voyage which included over 100 small illustrations in the text, and thirty full-page illustrations mainly in pen-and-ink or pencil with the occasional watercolour. |
| 1 | Young, John | Current | Contemporary painter who gave interesting talk at the Australian National University in 2000 that included explanation of source materials in three series of paintings. |
| 1 | Young, John | Current | Painter, John Alexander Young Zerunge is a Hong Kong-born Australian artist. During the time of The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in China, he was sent to Australia to complete his education. |
| 1 | Young, Lucia | Current | Young was a leatherworker and metalworker, who exhibited with the Society of Arts & Crafts of New South Wales during the early twentieth century. |
| 1 | Young, Mabel | Current | Young was a woodcarver whose work on the Boxer Rebellion clock was 'souvenired' by the Savage Club, Melbourne. |
| 1 | Young, Noela | Current | Young, a children's book illustrator, was made famous by her drawings for 'The Muddle-headed Wombat'. |
| 1 | Young, R. B. | Current | Drawing teacher at the Adelaide Educational Institution in Stephens Place, Rundle Street, Adelaide in the 1850s. |
| 1 | Young, Russell | Current | Mid 19th century painter, amateur photographer and lawyer of Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania). |
| 1 | Young, Samuel | Current | Comic strip artist, illustrator and artist, was born in Bangkok, Thailand. Young is the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including several OzCon awards. |
| 1 | Young, Tania | Current | photographer. Born in Tientsin, China of Russian parents. With Pat Barblett, ran a photography school called 'The Studio' in Perth in the 1980s. |
| 1 | Younghusband, Eliza | Current | Eliza Younghusband (c.1840-?), album compiler, was active in Adelaide, SA, in the 1850s and 60s. Her album is in the collection of the National Library of Australia. |