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Armstrong, Elizabeth Caroline, b. 1860
South Australian-born painter and teacher, Amstrong alternated between Adelaide and England. Following her death a fund was started to establish the Elizabeth Armstrong Memorial Library ...
Baillie, Maude, b. 1884
Working mainly with a pocket knife and chisel, Maude Baillie carved elaborate designs on various pieces of furniture. In 1907 she had one of her ...
Barringer, Ethel, b. 1884
An accomplished artist across various media, Ethel Barringer became passionate about etching and was instrumental in establishing this medium as a core part of the ...
Benson, Eva Ellenor, b. 1875
Eva Ellenor Benson was a talented sculptor who trained in Perth and London where she received regular recognition through awards and commissions. Returning to Australia ...
Blakemore, Rose, b. 1870
Queensland-born, Sydney-based miniature portrait artist and art teacher active in the early decades of the twentieth century.
Correll, Valeria Helen, b. 1886
Potter, sculptor, enameller, china painter, illustrator and author, born in Port Augusta, SA. Resident of Melbourne, Victoria, she produced distinctive lightly coloured, hand-modelled figure groups ...
Craig, Janie, b. 1876
Painter who was both a working member and a committee member of the West Australia Society of Arts in the early 1900s.
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Davidson, Bessie, b. 1879
Originally from Adelaide and a student and friend of Margaret Preston, Bessie Davidson was a very successful artist. She spent the majority of her life ...
Fiveash, Rosa, b. 1854
A painter and etcher who lived her whole life in North Adelaide. An accomplished botanical illustrator and flower painter Fiveash was also a pioneer of ...
Gwynne, Marjorie, b. 1886
Painter and resident of Adelaide, South Australia. In the early 1940s she skillfully harmonised, in an expressionist manner, paintings of garden flowers and vegetables in ...
Hambidge, Alice, b. 1869
South Australian painter, known especially for her watercolours and pastel portraits of public figures and children. Alice's watercolour miniatures on ivory were in great demand ...
Hambidge, Millicent, b. 1872
Adelaide based painter best known for her watercolour portraits.
I'Anson, Jessie Rebecca, b. 1862
Accomplished South Australian lacemaker and needlewoman. I'Anson was widowed at 36, and used her skills to support herself and her family for the remainder of ...
Kennedy, Christina, b. 1827
Christina Kennedy lived and worked in South Australia where she and her family were all involved in craft production. Her 'Tripod Table' (c.1880), made of ...
Kunst, M. C., b. 1881
Craftworker, lived at Milne Terrace, Moonta, South Australia, from at least 1903 to 1913. In 1903 Mrs Kunst made a family tree out of hair ...
Lukey, Alfred V.
Mrs Alfred V. Lukey exhibited oil paintings, china painting and metalwork with the West Australian Society of Arts in 1904. Two Lukey daughters were art ...
Mack, Maggie Pinkie, b. 1858
Weaver, singer and historian, collaborated with Ron and Catherine Berndt in their work of recording the old ways of the Yaraldi in 'A World That ...
Mitchell, Erlistoun, b. 1868
Embroiderer, South Australia, produced many works after Morris & Co. designs, including table covers, a screen, mantel borders and a splendid portière.
Norman, Harriet Anne, b. 1834
A photographer who worked in her father's photographic studio and watch and jewellery shops in Portland (1854) & Hamilton (1858-1867) in Victoria, and Commercial Street ...
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Preston, Margaret, b. 1875
Margaret Preston specialised in still life subjects, seeking to reinvent the genre, with inspiration from Aboriginal art and Australian native flowers, but she also made ...