Colonial female lace-maker whose Gothic revival style and Celtic interlacing title pages illuminated the names of Queen Victoria and Lady Smith, before bringing the Tasmanian ...
It is believed Isabel McDonald studied under both Frederick McCubbin and Tom Roberts, powerhouses of Australian romanticism. Roberts was certainly known to her though, even ...
Miniaturist, watercolourist, engraver, poet, writer and botanist. She resided in Tasmania for most of her life and exhibited in many Intercolonial Exhibitions.
Known for her mural paintings in Victoria, Bertha E. Merfield was a pioneer of landscape painting among female artists in Australia. Her mural for the ...
Teacher, inspector, unionist and organiser, in South Australia. When the former Women Assistants' Association (SA) became the Women Teachers' Association in 1906 she was elected ...
Embroiderer, South Australia, produced many works after Morris & Co. designs, including table covers, a screen, mantel borders and a splendid portière.
embroiderer, wallpaper and fabric designer, she was the elder daughter of the English designer William Morris. Although she never came to Australia, she had a ...
Designer and craftworker, Sydney, NSW, she was a prolific designer of textiles and various Applied Arts, often featuring Australian floral motifs, and was well known ...
Inverell-born, Sydney-based painter who exhibited with the [Royal] Art Society of New South Wales and in local exhibitions in her childhood home town of Wagga ...
Painter, residing in Melbourne, she diverged from standard patterns of taste in her use of a sombre palette and free, expressive brushwork. She exhibited internationally, ...