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Broadhurst, Florence, b. 1899
Acclaimed singer, dancer, actress, artist and designer. Broadhurst was most well known for her vibrant wall-paper designs which were sought after in Australia and internationally ...
Collings, Dahl, b. 1909
Dahl Collings was a painter, commercial artist, graphic and exhibition designer, illustrator, costume and textile designer, photographer and documentary film-maker. Often working in partnership with ...
Cooley, Peter, b. 1956
Painter, ceramist,carpet designer, illustrator. Illustrated the autobiography of reformed Aboriginal prisoner and alcoholic 'Koorie Dhoulagarle', There's More to Life.
Craven, Mary
Designer who began working with Berlei Hestia Ltd. in 1915.
Herbst, Gerard, b. 1911
Herbst was a designer for Prestige (Fabrics) Limited, an illustrator and later principal lecturer at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in industrial design, graphics. In ...
Little, Jeanne, b. 1938
Little began her career as a fashion designer with a dress-making shop in 5-Ways, Paddington under the name Jeanne Mitchell. Her mother had worked as ...
Murdoch, Lotti
Designer for Berlei Hestia Ltd. c.1950s.
Slorach, Bruce
Slorach worked as a designer as part of Slorach and Thorn, Melbourne. They produced textile designs, accessory designs and graphic works.
Taplin, Bea, b. 1911
Taplin was an interior designer and textile designer working from a studio in Toorak Road, South Yarra, later "Colour Cottage", Murphy Street, South Yarra. Her ...
Vercoe, Elizabeth
Vercoe is a textile designer and the winner of the 1972 Dunhill Industrial Design Award for a series of printed textile designs for Sheridan-Tennyson Fabrics ...
Grounds, Betty
Betty Grounds is a designer active in fashion and interiors. Grounds was a partner in Zara Holt's fashion boutique, Melbourne from 1948. On one documented ...
Rodriquez, John, b. 1929
Rodriquez is a textile designer and manufacturer with training at Melbourne Technical College (later RMIT). He studied industrial design and begun making greeting cards in ...
Stansfield, Jill
Stansfield was a textile designer, initially working for commercial firms such as Clunes Ross Packman and Comspring Fabrics. The designer was noted for her colour ...
Thorn, Sara
Thorn worked as a designer as part of Slorach and Thorn, Melbourne. They produced textile designs, accessory designs and graphic works.
de Vocht, Shirley, b. 1929
De Vocht was a designer working across textiles and ceramics in the Sydney region. She was especially adept in rendering native flora and fauna. She ...
Eastwood, Danny, b. 1943
Painter, illustrator, cartoonist and T-shirt designer based in Sydney, descending from the Ngemba Tribe of Western NSW. In 1992 Eastwood was the NAIDOC Aboriginal Artist ...
Huxley, Nicholas, b.
Huxley is an educator and as a designer, he has been active in film, television, and fashion magazines. He retired as Head Teacher, TAFE NSW ...
Kaldor, John, b. 1936
After arriving Australia & completing secondary school, Kaldor trained in design under Johannes Itten at Textilfachschule, Zürich. His first position was with Seker Fabrics, UK, ...
Hurley, Desolie, b. 1925
Hurley was the chief design for Berlei Ltd from 1954 - 1970. Her best known work, the "Mink Bra" was celebrated in the daily press.
Foster, Una, b. 1912
Foster was a painter, printmaker and textile artist. She studied at East /Sydney Technical College (diploma 1934), later in England 1950-51. Her work was widely ...