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Heysen, Nora, b. 1911
The daughter of painter Hans Heysen, Nora Heysen was highly regarded as an artist in her own right. In 1938 she became the first woman ...
Tuck, Ruth, b. 1914
Prominent South Australian artist particularly in the 1940s, honoured by Flinders University as 'a teacher and a watercolour painter at the forefront of the fight ...
Fitzpatrick, Dawn, b. 1922
Fitzpatrick is a textile artist, first exhibiting in Sydney in 1975. She also designs and makes theatre costumes.
Bayliss, Joan Janet, b. 1925
Bayliss pioneered use of art in psychology for treating children with behavioural problems. She also raised money for Alzheimer's research via her artwork.
McGilchrist, Erica, b. 1926
A painter, illustrator, dancer and teacher - taught painting at Kew Mental Hospital, was significant in the women's movement, and has had over 40 solo ...
Galley, Cynthia Dowler, b. 1932
Contemporary Adelaide cartoonist, painter and humorous writer, Gallery wrote and illustrated "Wattle Scrub and Sandhill Days", a narrative in comic verse about childhood days.
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Hanssen Pigott, Gwyn, b. 1935
Gwyn Hanssen Pigott was one of Australia's most distinguished potters whose career extended over more than five decades in Australia, England and France. She has ...
Hanrahan, Barbara, b. 1939
A well-known twentieth-century author as well as painter.
White, Susan Dorothea, b. 1941
Susan Dorothea White is a painter, sculptor, and printmaker with an exhibiting career spanning 50 years.
Patterson, Nellie Nungarrayi, b. 1943
A Pitjantjatjara speaker, Nellie began painting in 1986, selling her work through Maruku Arts and Crafts at Uluru.
Bezor, Annette, b. 1950
Annette Bezor was one of the new wave feminist artists to emerge in Adelaide in the 1970s. Her characteristic paintings were studies of voluptuously beautiful ...
Valamanesh, Angela, b. 1953
South Australian born artist with a formal background in pottery and ceramics, Valamanesh won the 1996 Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship. Married ...
Collett, Annabelle, b. 1956
Collett was a mixed media artist who designed costume, furniture, textiles, painted, designed interiors and assembled work from her "Museum of 20th Century Fabric", a ...
Dutkiewicz, Ursula, b. 1958
Ursula Dutkiewicz is a ceramist, sculptor, community and public artist based at Gasworks Studios in Albert Park, Melbourne, VIC.
O'Brien, Barbary, b. 1958
Contemporary regional South Australian cartoonist, painter, illustrator, mural painter, sculptor, community artist, writer and environmentalist.
Giles, Kerry, b. 1959
Giles worked as an artist, activist and curator. She has many accolades to her name, including the South Australian Aboriginal Artist of the Year Award ...
Smart, Sally, b. 1960
Sally Smart is installation artist who works in Victoria.
Austin, Natalie, b. 1964
Antikirinya/Southern Kokatha/Yankunytjatjara artist based in Port Augusta, South Australia.
Carabetta, Nikki, b. 1964
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, ...
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Williams, Vera Mbitjana, b. 1966
Pitjantjatjara speaker also fluent in five other Central Australian languages. A dedicated artist in the media of screenprint and fabric design, and more recently, canvas ...